Create2Solve - Request for Challenges

• Animal-free innovations can play a role in further improving human health, quality and relevance of research and business processes;
• Create2Solve provides opportunities for industry, academia and regulatory bodies to become involved and have access to relevant models or services to very specific questions without the use of animals;
• The research institutions and small- and medium enterprises (SMEs) have the opportunity to create innovative animal-free solutions for concrete challenges with commitment and feedback from the potential end-user(s).

Selection criteria

• Relevance and appropriateness of the challenge to the Create2Solve call;
• The impact the challenge might have on the reduction of animal testing, once the challenge is solved;
• The impact the challenge might have on industrial-, regulatory- or research-processes at large. Therefore, challenges that are cross-company, -regulatory or -academic (and if possible also cross-area) are required.

Who is eligible to propose a challenge?

Regulatory body, Industry or a branch organisation or academics in the field of pharmaceuticals/medical technology, chemistry, cosmetics and food in search of an animal-free approach to a currently animal based approach.

• The challenge must represent cross company, regulatory body, academy and/or cross domain hurdles within at least one of the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, chemicals, cosmetics or food industry;
• The challenge must be geared towards an animal-free innovation. No animal experiments or animal material will be allowed. Use of existing animal data is allowed.
• To be eligible to submit a challenge, the company or branch organisation needs to have an office in the Netherlands.

Note: it is recommended that interested industry, regulatory bodies or academia, attend the Create2Solve information and match-making meeting, this fall. This meeting can help to find a partner and to find a common subject for a challenge. The location, organisation and exact date will be communicated as soon as possible.