ScandLAS Newsletter no: 3-2008
Sweden - Finland - Estonia - Norway - Denmark
Editor: Lars Friis Mikkelsen, Webmaster: Jörgen Jönsson
President´s voice
Colleagues and friends,
The new Scand-LAS board has worked now half a year with good spirit of enthusiasm. Many, already traditional, activities have been brought up in the board meetings: How many scholarships will there be for the next Scand-LAS meeting? Is Scand-LAS again able to support members to take part in FELASA category D education? Which local activities have applied for some financial help from Scand-LAS. Some old tasks have been warmed up: there still seems to be interest and need for working groups, especially with topics having practical value which increase animal welfare. New working groups will be established and ideas for important topics are warmly welcomed!
How about something new? Already some years ago, Scand-LAS members were asked what activities we feel important and what the expectations for Scand-LAS are. The result was very clear. The annual meeting was ranked as the number one and it seemed that members are quite happy with our society. New ideas and activities important to all members are often difficult to find and I feel that Scand-LAS already now has pretty nice member privileges. However, it is always important to try to find new initiatives – and this is also something where we all can have input. Like the idea to give two best poster prizes at the annual meeting (greetings to Denmark), which will be done at our next annual meeting in Ystad, Sweden, 2009.
The annual meeting in Ystad is really something to look forward to; please visit the webpage regularly to see the newest news, topics and dead lines. At the same time, Scand-LAS has also started to prepare even the annual meeting in Finland. That will be a joint FELASA – Scand-LAS meeting in Helsinki in 2010. The first announcement has been published and can be found also at the webpage. Go and have a look!
Although these meeting actions, other activities and our daily work have to be done, soon it will be time to take a short break. Our animals need their care every day, and so do we, too. I hope that everybody has a possibility to sit down for a while in a comfortable chair, look at the Christmas tree and just rest.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Hanna-Marja Voipio
From the scandLAS board
Scand-LAS Board and responsibilities
At the Scand-LAS Board meeting in Stockholm in august 2008 it was suggested and decided to dedicate some of the ongoing tasks to different Board members in order to have a more efficient and broader structure within the Board.
The future Board structure will be as followed:
Hanna-Marja Voipio, Finland: President and FELASA Board representative
Lars Friis Mikkelsen, Denmark: Vice-president and chief-editor of the Scand-LAS newsletter
Ann-Christine Eklöf: FELASA Board and ICLAS Governing Board representative
Morten Eriksen, Norway: Working group contact
Tarja Kohila, Finland: No specific tasks as co-organizing the FELASA 2010 meeting
Kai Ökva, Estonia: Treasurer
Niina Kemppinen: Secretary
Barbro Salomonsson: Co-secretary and co-treasurer
Jörgen Jönsson: Webmaster
First announcement
Scand_FELASA2010
‘New Paradigms in Laboratory Animal Science’
to be held 14-17 June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. The venue of the meeting is Marina Congress Center, located at the seaside of downtown Helsinki.
First announcement
Annual meeting 2009 in Ystad Saltsjöbad 23-26 April
The theme for the conference is Translational research for solving human diseases: How much pain and distress are ethically acceptable
Important dates
Deadline for Scand-LAS scholarships January 15, 2009
Registrations open from January 1, 2009
Increased registration fee from March 1
Abstract deadline February 28
Scholarships
The Scand-LAS Board has decided this year to allocate money for 12 scholarships to attending 2009’s Symposium/Educational days in Ystad Sweden, April 23 - 26, 2009.
The application must include
- Full CV
- Motivation for attending
- Letter of recommendation
- Written on ScandLAS applicationform
- Sent the application to Scholarships@scandlas.org
If one or more of the above mentioned documents are missing the application will be rejected.
SCI! In a couple of day you rereceive a receipt of your application
Submit the application electronically to no later than January 15, 2009.
Application form
Scand-LAS stipend for Master education in Laboratory Animal Science
FELASA category D
A grant for full participation in the Master education in Laboratory Animal Science is offered jointly by the Scandinavian Society for Laboratory Animal Science and the Universities in Copenhagen, Kuopio, and Helsinki.
Graduates from the education, which is accredited on category D level by FELASA (www.felasa.org) will be given the title Master of Laboratory Animal Science by Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
Teaching will take place in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Kuopio in 2-3 periods of 1-3 weeks each semester during a two-year period starting from February 2009. Furthermore, home work adding up to a total of 1650 hours should be expected.
For more information see,
www.life.ku.dk/English/education/continuing_education/msc_laboratory_animal_science.aspx
The grant will pay all tutorial fees for participation, and equals a value of approximately DKK 110,000 or Euro 15,000.
Applicants should be qualified for entering the education, must be Scand-LAS members, and will be prioritized according to their needs for financial support.
For further information and application, send an email to
Axel Kornerup Hansen
Professor, dr.med.vet., DVM, dipECLAM
Study director
akh@life.ku.dk
Deadline: January 15, 2009.
Award
"The Ulla Kristina Stephens Travel and Education Award for 2009"
The award is open for one laboratory animal technician who is member of Scand-LAS
The award will be given for attending the AALAS meeting in 2009 held in Denver, November 8-12.
- The award is to provide travel funds, hotel funds, a full years membership to the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), and to include registration fee.
- All travel arrangements, hotel reservations, AALAS Membership fee, and AALAS Meeting Registration fee, are to be handled by the awarder / Scand-LAS.
About this newsletter
Some of you have got the new newsletter ” ScandLAS update” and some have not.
Why is that? Presumably we have the wrong e-mail address or we don´t have any e-mail address at all. Feel free to contact me to update your record at mailto:Webmaster@scandlas.org
You can also read the newsletter at the website. The newsletter is available for all just now, in 2009 it will move in at the members area "only for members".
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