News
Support
for 3Rs research in Sweden 2008
May 2008
Swecopa
held it’s AGM on March 31. Karin Gabrielson Morton was re-elected to
chair
Swecopa. Other board members are Dr Cecilia Clemedson (Swedish Fund for
Research without Animal Experiments), Professor Roland Grafström
(Karolinska Institute)
Dr Krister Martin (AstraZeneca),
Rebecca Ceder (Karolinska Institute) and Helena Elofsson (Board of
Agriculture).
The Swedish
government funding for 3R:s alternatives has been increased
substantially, down
to 8 million SEK compared to 15 million earlier. It has also been split
between
two different funding bodies. The
Board of
Agriculture received 5 million SEK for this purpose and FORMAS (a Research
Council)
received a budget of 3 million. AstraZeneca has contributed with an
additional
0,9 million SEK. The Board of Agriculture and Formas jointly
published a call for applications for a total of 8,9 million, and a decision to support a total of 11 research projects was made in November.
From 2009 the Swedish Research Council will be the Government body for funding research to develop alternatives
to animal experiments. The annual budget for this will be increased to 13 million SEK.
The Swedish Fund for
Research without
Animal Experiments is a private fund, which uses donations from the
public
to fund research to replace animal experiments. The total amount
available for
funding is 1,5 million SEK per year and the call for applications ends
in February.
The final selection of projects to receive funding is made in
September. A list of projects funded is available here
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