Animal ethics award celebrates ‘Three Rs’

Nominations for New Zealand’s 2012 Three Rs Award for brute ethics unopen afterward this month.

The award, given past times the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC), celebrates the achievements inwards the implementation of the “Three Rs” of brute research: Replacement, Reduction as well as Refinement.

The accolade aims to celebrate as well as promote the concept inside the scientific community as well as to the wider public, as well as is made to an individual, grouping or establishment inside New Zealand that shows swell commitment to the principles of the Three Rs.

Nominations unopen on July 20. Applicants must provide:

• evidence of how they qualify for the Award (maximum of 3 pages)
• curriculum vitae
• the names as well as contact details of upwards to 2 potential referees (who may, at the Committee’s discretion, survive approached for comment)

The prize volition consist of a certificate as well as a fiscal accolade of $2,000, which volition survive presented inwards Wellington at the NAEAC brute ethics commission workshop on Nov 16.

 

» Applications or nominations (with cognition of nominee) should survive sent to: NAEAC Secretariat, c/- Ministry for Primary Industries, PO Box 2526, Wellington 6140, naeac@mpi.govt.nz.

 

THREE Rs AWARD

Application criteria: 

The applicant’s operate should run across i or to a greater extent than of the next criteria, against which they volition survive judged:

• demonstrates swell commitment to Three Rs principles; 
• demonstrates innovative implementation of Three Rs principles; 
• will assistance to promote awareness of Three Rs principles inwards research, commercial practice, or teaching. 

Rules of the Award: 

•  Applications volition survive accepted from individuals, groups, or organisations. 
•  Nominations volition too survive accepted for individuals, groups, or organisations, provided the nominee is consulted as well as consents to the nomination. 
•  The application deadline should survive no less than 2 months inwards advance of the anticipated Award presentation. 
• Announcement of results should survive no less than i calendar month prior to the anticipated presentation, to allow the winner fourth dimension to cook for attendance. 
• Past winners of the Award are ineligible to contender the accolade for a menses of 3 years after winning. 

Nomination/Application process:

There is no specific application shape for the Three Rs Award, all the same each application or nomination should include:

• evidence of how the applicant or nominated individual, grouping or establishment meets i or to a greater extent than of the  Award criteria listed inwards a higher house (maximum of 3 pages). 
• curriculum vitae of the telephone commutation applicant(s) or nominee(s). 
• the names as well as contact details of upwards to 2 potential referees, at to the lowest degree i of whom must survive external to  the host organisation.

Judging panel as well as assessment process:

•  The judging panel volition survive comprised of non less than 3 NAEAC members amongst appropriate expertise, i of whom volition deed every bit chair. 
•  Other individuals may survive seconded to the panel, for example, to furnish specific expertise or every bit a  courtesy to major sponsors. • Members of the panel volition survive selected to avoid potential conflicts of interest, or if this is non possible,  conflicts must survive identified as well as managed appropriately (where a conflict occurs, the commission  member must non survive involved inwards ranking of the respective applications). 
•  All members of the panel volition read as well as rank the applications. The rankings volition survive discussed past times  teleconference or email, as well as a terminal ranking reached past times consensus. 
•  The ranked listing volition survive provided to the NAEAC secretariat for ratification past times NAEAC. The results volition survive communicated to all applicants, as well as the NAEAC secretariat volition therefore adjust for accolade of the prize and publicity every bit appropriate.

The prize volition consist of a certificate as well as a fiscal award, to survive presented at an appropriate venue  such every bit ANZCCART Conference or Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) Research Honours Dinner.  The winner’s registration, move as well as accommodation costs for tending the presentation business office will also survive included every bit component of the prize. 

 

 

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