3RS STUDENT GRANTS 2019: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSThe European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students withoutstanding work in the field of alternative approaches for attending a high-profile scientific event.

Every year, a number of high-profile international meetings bring together world-class scientists working on thedevelopment and acceptance of 3R alternatives to animal testing (Replacement, Reduction or Refinement).
Costs linked to participation may prevent students with promising work from attending these events. The EPAA
partners proudly sponsor the 3Rs Student grants to facilitate the participation of students in such events.
The jury will comprise 4 representatives of the EPAA Steering Committee (two from the Industry and two fromthe European Commission) who will judge the applications.
For each of the eligible events, a lump sum of 1500€ is available. Two levels of grants are offered by the EPAA
partners: half grant and full grant.
-A half grant covers the reimbursement of the event registration fees for the student as well as traveland accommodation fees, on the basis of the expense receipts up to a maximum of 500 €.
A full grant covers the reimbursement of the event registration fees for the student as well as travel
and accommodation fees, up to a maximum total amount of 1000€, on the basis of the expensereceipts.

Eligibility
Eligibility criteria for both students and events are defined as follows. Applications falling out of this scope will
be void.
Students
1) Applicants have to be based (i.e. studying) in one of the 28 EU Member States. Citizenship may befrom any country (i.e. also outside of the EU).
2) Applicants must be graduated (BSc / First cycle completed with at least 180 ECTS credits) whenapplying and should not have a doctoral degree.
3) Applicants must still be considered as full-time students when applying.
4) No funding or reimbursement by another entity for the same student and event is allowed.
EventsSelected high-profiled scientific meetings are eligible for the EPAA 3Rs student grants. The eligible events will
be announced on the EPAA website in autumn each year for the following year. Only events that take place inthe EU+EEA area will be included. For 2019, the following events are selected for application:
EVENT

Deadline for theapplication
FELASA – Federation for Laboratory Animal Science Associations (10-13 14/04/2019
June)
EUSAAT congress – European Society for Alternatives to Animal testing 19/08/2019(10-13 October)
EUROTOX annual congress – Federation of European Toxicologists (8-11 14/07/2019
September)

Application and selection process
Application process follows the following approach:1) Applications must be sent to EPAA functional mailbox ( grow‐epaa@ec.europa.eu) by midnight ofthe day indicated above
2) The Award will be granted provided an abstract is accepted for an oral presentation. At the sole
discretion of the Jury, in exceptional cases work presented in a poster format will be eligible, too.
EPAA visibility must be granted by including a clear acknowledgment of EPAA’s support in thepresentation/poster.
Selection will be made by the jury on the basis of the following documents to be provided by the applicant: Abstract submitted for one of the selected events
 Detailed CV of the applicant with list of publications (if any) Cover letter describing why the work described in the abstract is important for the 3Rs and why itshould be supported by the EPAA grant Recommendation letter from a professor/supervisor also confirming the applicant is a full-timestudent
 Proof of acceptance to the event (i.e. invitation to the event or confirmation mail)Enquiries should be directed to grow‐epaa@ec.europa.eu