Register now: EUPRIM-Net Course

Students, scientists, animal care takers and other staff involved in primate based animal research are invited to take part in the upcoming EUPRIM-Net course on general primatology in Göttingen. The course will take part during November 24th until November 27th at the DPZ. The registration term ends on November 3rd. Besides several talks on general primatology of the most commonly used primate models, this course will provide fundamental information on primate behaviour, cognition and neurophysiology.

An essential part of the course programme will also deal with ethics in animal testing, ABM (Animal Behaviour Management), handling and training of primates as well as with environmental enrichment methods. To complete the programme, the course includes a communication training, which is particularly important for staff working in the fields of primate and animal research in general. Lecturers will include DPZ's behavioral scientists Eckhard W. Heymann and Julia Fischer and neuroscientists Alexander Gail and Valeska Stephan. The ethics part will be covered by Bert Heinrichs from the German Referenccenter for Ethics.

You can find more information on the course program and registration details here.

The EU-funded EUPRIM-Net brings together nine European primate centres that combine research and breeding to form a virtual European Primate Centre. Thanks to their wide range of biological and biomedical research activities, extensive knowledge and infrastructure resources already exist. The EUPRIM-Net Project links the existing knowledge and resources to pool into an integrated and efficient network to improve basic and applied biological and biomedical research with primates as well as housing and breeding conditions for primates.