What happened for #BOARD25?

The fifth edition of Be Open About Animal Research Day (#BOARD25), EARA’s global, 24-hour social media campaign, that celebrates examples of openness in animal research with the public, took place during the FELASA Congress 2025, on 3 June. 

To celebrate the day, institutions and researchers around the world produced videos where they spoke about the animal research they carry out and about the need to talk openly with the public about animal research.

Here are the videos that were shared, listed by continent and country.

Oceania

Charles Sturt University, Australia

Asia

PALAS, Philippines

Africa

Bioculture, Mauritius

Learn more here.

Europe

Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece

Orsi Academy, Belgium

European Brain Council, Belgium

Charité University, Germany

Learn here about how new methods are helping to keep the number of animals required as low as possible at Charité University.

University Hospital of RWTH Aachen, Germany

INFRAFRONTIER, Germany

Translational Animal Research Center at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany

ConScienceTrain, Germany

Vigilitech AG, Switzerland

Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands

University of Cagliari, Italy

TransCure bioServices, France

Cynbiose, France

Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Spain

Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research, Portugal

Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal

EXRC, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

North America

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States