September 15-19, 2025
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

Information

The EUROoCS working group “Teaching & Training” is hosting the third EUROoCS Summer School as a joint venture together with the 3R-Center Tübingen for In vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing. The 5-day training course takes place from September 15th to 19th 2025 in Tübingen and features both lectures and laboratory hands-on sessions.

Participants will explore the fundamental concepts and principles of Organ-on-Chip technology in an interdisciplinary setting.

The Summer School is designed for M.Sc., MD, and PhD students who are beginning their research in this exciting field, as well as professionals from academia or industry seeking to gain foundational knowledge and practical lab experience.

 

You can find a short recap of the 2023 summerschool here.

For more detailed information, please go to our host’s website.

Registration will be opened on this website soon.

Topics

• Microfabrication

• Sensors, Imaging and omics read-out

• Biomaterials

• Microfluidics and fluid dynamics

• Regulatory processes

• PK/PD modelling

• GCCP (good cell and tissue culture practice)

• Stem Cells and organoids


LAB-HANDS-ON Topics:

• Stem cells and organoids

• Microfabrication

• Sensor and monitoring

• Biomaterials

• In-silico modelling

Application

Application is not yet open

 

Application:
The course is limited to 32 participants. Interested persons must apply to attend the summer school. The application includes the description of their research project and motivation statement (max. 300 words per topic). Applications will be reviewed by members of the training work group. Participants will be selected based on the score of the reviews. A distribution across countries and groups is also taken into account for the selection. Please be aware of potential visa issues in time!

Registration:
Registration is only possible with a successful application!
Summer school fees will be fixed soon.
Special reduced fees will be available to members of EUROoCS.
No EUROoCS member yet? Please first register as a new member and benefit from discount for the EUROoCS 2025 summerschool.

Note: Please note that registration to the summerschool is personal and binding. Registrations are neither refundable nor transferable to another colleague, for non-attendance or any other reason. This also implies also visa issues.  

Note: Shared rooms (four beds / room) are provided for participants from Sunday, September 14th to Friday September 19th, 2025 (5 nights) with breakfast and lunch at the Youth Hostel Tübingen. Participants may choose to stay in their own accommodation, but the Summer School fee will not be reduced.

Deadlines

15 January 2025 – Application opens

1 April 2025 – Deadline application

25 April 2025 – Notice to registrants and start of registration (including payment)

15 May 2025 – Registration deadline

31 May 2025 – Deadline payment of summers school fee

Venue

Tübingen welcomes you:
Your host: 3R-Center Tübingen for in vitro Models and Alternatives to Animal Testing welcomes you to the EUROoCS 2025 summer school.
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Accommodation:

Shared rooms (four beds / room) are provided for participants from Sunday, September 14th to Friday September 19th, 2025 (5 nights) with breakfast and lunch at the Youth Hostel Tübingen.

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Committees

The EUROoCS Summer School is organized by the EUROoCS working group “Teaching & Training”:

 

    • • Torsten Mayr (Graz University of Technology)
    • • Silke Riegger (3R-Center Tübingen)
    • • Elena Kromidas (Tübingen University)
    • • Thomas Winkler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    • • Gülden Akçay (Eindhoven University of Technology)
    • • Silvia 
    • • Virginia Brancato (University Milano-Bicocca
    • • Heleen Middelkamp (hDMT, EUROoCS)

 

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Get in touch with us

If you have any questions, please contact: training@euroocs.eu