Events

The RSPCA has held a series of events, bringing together hundreds of people from across the world, to share knowledge and ideas, and promote practical approaches to avoiding and reducing severe suffering. 

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    13th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences

    Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Date:31 August 2025

    • International FoSS meeting

    16th TALAS International Conference

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand

    Date:23 July 2025

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Welfare assessment
    • Cumulative severity
    • Lifetime experiences
    • Congress

    16th FELASA Congress 2025

    Location: Athens, Greece

    Date:2 June 2025

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Humane endpoints
    • Cumulative severity
    • Lifetime experiences
    • Congress
    • Regulatory testing
    • Retrospective assessment

    6th international meeting

    Location: Gentilly, France

    Date:20 November 2024

    • International FoSS meeting
    • Refinement
    • Animal Welfare Body
    • Cancer research
    • Neuroscience
    • Cardiovascular research
    • Roadmap

    Minimising pain

    Location: Newcastle, UK

    Date:5 November 2024

    • Refinement
    • UK FoSS meeting
    • Pain research
    • Pain
    • Analgesia
    • Ethics
    • Training
    • Welfare assessment

    Humane endpoints in regulatory toxicology

    Location: Weybridge, Surrey - UK

    Date:16 November 2023

    • Refinement
    • UK FoSS meeting
    • Training
    • Humane endpoints
    • Fishes
    • Mortality
    • Severe procedures

    5th international meeting - Cumulative severity

    Location: Leiden, Netherlands

    Date:12 October 2023

    • International FoSS meeting
    • Animal Welfare Body
    • Roadmap
    • Cumulative severity
    • Lifetime experiences

    9th AFLAS Congress

    Location: South Korea

    Date:13 September 2023

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Congress
    • Presentation

    12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences

    Location: Niagara Falls, Canada

    Date:27 August 2023

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Humane endpoints
    • Congress

    Reducing severity - supportive care

    Location: Online

    Date:27 February 2023

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Online event

    Severe suffering in animal experiments and how to refine

    Location: Online

    Date:7 November 2022

    • Refinement
    • Presentation
    • Online event

    4th international meeting - Refining severe disease models and procedures

    Location: Stockholm, Sweden

    Date:24 August 2022

    • International FoSS meeting
    • Refinement
    • Welfare assessment
    • Humane endpoints
    • Applied research
    • Regulatory testing
    • Retrospective assessment
    • Basic research

    Working together to end ‘severe’ suffering - FELASA Congress

    Location: Marseille, France

    Date:13 June 2022

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Congress
    • Presentation

    Looking forward and looking back - opportunities to focus on ‘severe’ suffering

    Location: Manchester, UK

    Date:20 April 2022

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • UK FoSS meeting
    • Presentation
    • Retrospective assessment
    • Animal disease

    Focus on fish 2022

    Location: Online

    Date:23 February 2022

    • Refinement
    • Humane endpoints
    • Presentation
    • Focus on Fish
    • Video
    • Recording

    How the pharmaceutical industry is tackling ‘severe’ suffering in animals used in science

    Location: Online

    Date:26 January 2022

    • Refinement
    • Roadmap
    • Presentation
    • Online event
    • Regulatory testing

    11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal use in the Life Sciences

    Location: Online

    Date:22 August 2021

    • Refinement
    • Welfare assessment
    • Humane endpoints
    • Congress
    • Presentation

    Focus on fish 2021

    Location: Online

    Date:23 February 2021

    • Refinement
    • Welfare assessment
    • Humane endpoints
    • Presentation
    • Focus on Fish
    • Video
    • Recording

    3rd international meeting

    Location: Athens, Greece

    Date:10 October 2019

    • International FoSS meeting
    • Refinement
    • Welfare assessment
    • Humane endpoints
    • Mortality

    FELASA Congress

    Location: Prague, Czech Republic

    Date:10 June 2019

    • Refinement
    • Welfare assessment
    • Congress