Programme

Day 1 | 15 May 2023 - BCLAS General Assembly and workshops

For BCLAS members only - lunch included

Only accessible to professionals and PhD students - Accounts for 3h of accredited continuing professional development

Workshops will be given in English. No simultaneous translation will be provided for the workshops.

	BCLAS General Assembly
11:30	For BCLAS members only - lunch included

12:00	Registration and Exhibition opening

	Afternoon workshops
13:00 - 14:00	Workshop A \| Automated blood sampling	Worshop B \| Gaseous anaesthesia	Workshop C \| Zebrafish welfare
14:15 - 15:15	Workshop D \| Relationship EC-AWB (part 1)		Workshop E \| Digital vivarium

15:15 - 16:00	Coffee break - Exhibition

16:00	Workshop D \| Relationship EC-AWB (part 2)		Workshop F \| Detecting rodent pathologies

17:00 - 17h45	Drink & Exhibition

	Social events

From 17:45	17:45 – 19:30: Walk/smartphone quiz in the old city centre of Namur 19:30 – 21:30: Dinner at Brasserie François

Attending the whole day accounts for 5h of accredited hours of continuing professional development.

Talks (French or Dutch) with simultaneaous translation in French and Dutch.

08:00	Registration - Welcome coffee/tea

08:45	Opening of the meeting by the symposium coordinator
	Part I: Human communication NOTE: Parallel to the main symposium programme there will be animal technician workshops from 08:50 to 10:20. After the morning coffee break, animal technicians join the main symposium.

	Main session	Session 1 08:50 - 10:20	Session 2 08:50 - 10:20
08:50	Communication to the public via non-technical summaries and retrospective analysis documents \| Ludivine Cambier, SPW
09:20	Communication towards a culture of care: views of the pharmaceutical industry, the European Commission and animal rights groups \| Kirsty Reid, EFPIA	Workshop 1 \| Non-aversive mouse handling	Workshop 2 \| Working with (mini)pigs
09:50	Communication of animal welfare bodies towards the public: the Utrecht case \| Monique Janssens, University of Utrecht


10:20	Coffee/Tea Break – Exhibition – poster session

11:10	Compassion fatigue: what is it and how to prevent it in laboratory animal users? \| Véronique Neuvens, Dinant
11:50	President talk on BCLAS activities \| Piet Dierckx, BCLAS
12:00	Poster presentation session

12:30	Lunch - Exhibition – poster session 13h-13h45: authors present at their poster for answering questions

	Part II: Animal communication
14:00	"Unnoticable" communication: pheromones and ultrasound \| Elodie Ey, CNRS UMR Strasbourg, France.
	Part III: animal-human and human-animal communication
14:35	Animal Centric Care and Management: How correct handling and training can move us beyond the 3Rs \| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

15:15	Coffee/Tea Break – Exhibition – poster session

16:00	Understanding animals: pain recognition in different animal species using grimace scales \| Machteld van Dierendonck, Utrecht, Ghent and Antwerp University
16:45	Closure of the meeting – Poster awards and prize winners (sponsor quiz)
17:00	End of the symposium