The Champalimaud Foundation is holding another CONGENTO Training Session on "Portuguese Legislation on Animal use in Research" on 8-12 February 2021This module is in English and will be entirely remote, according to the following plan:

  • February 8-11 -  Access to 1 mandatory session on Legislation and 1 optional session on Severity Classification), for self learning. These are video-recorded sessions with supporting PDF handouts

  • February 12, 10 AM - Online Quiz for evaluation

  • A Zoom session for discussion and doubts can be scheduled for February 11, 2 PM, if there are questions

This session is particularly relevant for those who have completed Laboratory Animal Science courses in other EU countries, and only require training in Portuguese Legislation to obtain their License to work with animals (required by DGAV since late 2017). If you know of someone in this situation, please, forward her/him this email.

All those interested in the topic, even if not in the situation specified above, are free to attend.


This Session is free of charge, but registration is mandatory (pls, click here). Registration deadline: February 5th 2021

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need a Gmail email address to access the sessions via Google Classroom

Any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Register in SPCAL

Registration is fast and allows you access to exclusive and reserved contents for registered users on page of the Portuguese Society of Sciences Laboratory in Animals.

Make registration