The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service to support EU policies with independent evidence. The Chemical Safety and Alternative Methods Unit, which runs the European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL-ECVAM), is organising a Summer School on May 21-24, 2019 at the JRC Ispra site in Italy. The “JRC Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science: Challenges and Future Directions" intends to sha