About TPI.tv

TPI.tv - connecting and inspiring people to facilitate the acceleration towards animal-free innovation.
 

Laboratory animals are being used for basic science, translational science, regulatory assessments and education. Since animal studies are not always the best predictor for humans and due to ethical concerns on animal welfare, animal-free innovations are needed and increasingly used. However, many of these innovations are not widely known and applied. Increasing the visibility and showing the potential of animal-free innovations is crucial to accelerate animal-free science for all
purposes. Enter: TPI.tv.

TPI.tv works like a market place. Stop by and find the experts from whom you can learn, whose missions connect with yours and with whom you can exchange information, knowledge or data to accelerate animal-free innovations. Maybe you will even find things on TPI.tv you didn’t search for but which turn out to be very useful! And if you want to share your expertise or question, make a video yourself. Video is the best way to reach and mobilise your community. 

TPI.tv contains over 100 videos covering a wide array of innovations, experts views, questions, projects and initiatives, and meetings and conferences. While the videos provide an accessible way to get introduced to a topic, each video contains a wealth of information behind it through links to publications, protocols, websites and more.  

TPI.tv invites all professionals involved in the transition towards animal-free science to contribute: researchers, research funders, startups, industrials, test-developers, regulators, policymakers, etc. The TPI.tv team, currently at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), curates the platform to make sure that what is submitted in fits with this mission.

The history of TPI.tv 

TPI.tv is funded by the Transition Programme for Innovations without the use of Animals (TPI), which is part of the Dutch Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature. Since 2019, TPI supported the development of TPI.tv in its current form, which is online since 2020. In close collaboration with stakeholders in the field, open science and communication, the platform was tailored to serve the scientific community as best as possible. 

TPI.tv is currently hosted by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). RIVM is partner in the Transition Programme for Innovations without the use of animals (TPI). RIVM is not to be held responsible for the content of the
videos. 

How to find information at TPI.tv 

On the homepage of the TPI.tv website, you can find categories and a selection of interests, which help you to navigate through the more than 100 videos currently available on the platform. Along the top of the homepage, you can choose to see all the videos and the broadcast that randomly plays any video. In the upper-right corner of the homepage you can do a free text search. On the search-page it is possible to further specify your search with the filter options at the top of the page.

Submitting videos to TPI.tv 

We encourage everyone to submit videos to TPI.tv who has expertise, innovations, projects or questions to share relating to animal-free innovations. Please refer to the submit a video page for detailed instructions. 

The criterium for uploaded videos is that science is leading in the video. Content generated with a commercial intent or produced by parties with a strictly commercial point of view is not allowed. The TPI.tv editorial team reserves the right to refuse videos or requests that interfere with issues such as privacy, the goal or the not-for-profit character of TPI.tv, social standards regarding online behaviour, and any other issues that we consider relevant. Please see our Terms and Conditions and Privacy policy for more information.