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The University of Münster, the Faculty of Medicine and Münster University Hospital are among the 48 first signatories of the Transparency Agreement for Animal Research which started up on July 1 2021. In the Agreement, research institutes working in the field of life sciences declare that they will provide transparent information on animal experimentation, actively pursue dialogue with the public on research involving animal testing, share with one another their experiences, and publicise their activities.

Last year, the University of Münster won the competition entitled “A Uni – a Book”. The award is tied to funding a series of events designed to enable as many people as possible to discuss a certain book and fire their enthusiasm for a shared topic. Münster University chose the book “The Human inside the Animal” by Münster behavioural scientist Norbert Sachser. In his book, he describes a “revolution in the image of animals” which has taken place over the past decades on the basis of research in the field of behavioural biology.
What does he mean by that? How is it expressed? And what are the consequences? In the summer semester 2021 there are public talks and discussions on the subject of “The Human inside the Animal – a subject for Münster”.
 

A series of public lectures entitled “Animals in the Humanities and Social Sciences” investigates relationships between humans and animals. The talks look at how animals have been viewed at different times and does so from a variety of angles, including questions of the well-being of working animals, pets and wild animals.