ReThink3R aims at organizing interdisciplinary workshops focusing on the 3Rs using Design Thinking methods.
The 3R principle (Replace, Reduce and Refine) describes interventions for replacing animal experiments by alternative methods, for reducing the numbers of animals and for refining animal experiments in order to reduce animal suffering.
Design Thinking is an innovation method that helps to find practical and user-centred solutions in an effective team-work setting.
We believe that the combination of 3R with Design Thinking is a very effective approach to discuss the emotionally charged topic of animal experiments, to transfer the knowledge about the 3R principle, to work on innovative solutions for their implementation and train the competences required for a change of mindset within the scientific community.
Impressions from workshops at Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Zurich, and others…
News, Activities, Workshops
The goal of the“tReEFINE“ project idea is to improve the implementation of refinement methods regarding experimental and housing conditions for laboratory animals. It was developed in a ReThink3R-Workshop organized with …
„Als Verband für die Förderung des MINT-Unterrichts ist der MNU e.V. DER Berufsverband für Lehrkräfte in den MINT-Fächern“. https://www.mnu-bb.de/Tagungen/bundeskongress.shtml We have the honour to present our teaching concept in a …
We were very grateful for receiving the 3. place of the Research To Market Challenge for our concept of combining the 3R-topic with Design Thinking and a concept for upscaling …
Within this course we give high school goers the early opportunity to treat the topic of animal experimentation and the 3R principle as part of biomedical sciences in an interactive …
