2025 Animal Protection Research Prize – Award ceremony on 22 April 2025
Join us here from 11 a.m. on 22 April 2025 for the livestream of the award ceremony in Berlin! The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) is awarding the Animal Protection Research Prize in two categories this year. International guests will be attending for the first time. Prior registration is mandatory if you wish to attend in person. Please refer to the Programme for further details on the event.
With the prize, the BMEL supports the research and development of alternative methods to replace animal testing. The prize is awarded following nomination and proposal by an independent prize committee. The BMEL’s Animal Protection Research Prize, which comes with a prize money of 100,000 euros, is to be awarded to Professor Dr Hans Clevers from the Hubrecht Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His pioneering work in establishing organoids as a groundbreaking method in modern biomedical research was nominated by the BMEL’s prize committee for outstanding research on the replacement and reduction of animal testing.
The prize for social and civic engagement in the field of laboratory animals, which comes with a prize money of 20,000 euros, is to be awarded to Norecopa, the Norwegian National Consensus Platform for promoting the 3Rs, represented by Professor Dr Adrian Smith.
Livestream
The livestream of the award ceremony will be available here from 11 a.m. on 22 April 2025.
Registration
Registration deadline for attending the event in person: 21 April 2025
Venue
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Press area (2.E.010)
Entrance via Französische Str. 2
10117 Berlin