The University of Hohenheim has repeatedly decreased the number of animal experiments and use of animals in studies and in some areas has completely eliminated them. It will continue to do this in the future - as long as adequate alternatives are available to achieve its education objectives with the standards it has defined.
Up to now, the University of Hohenheim has continually reached the conclusion that it cannot completely do away with the use of animals. Whether in research, animal keeping, food production, or health sciences - the University qualifies many people for career fields that later deal with animals. Many working areas are thereby explicitly focused on animal or human well-being.
According to the University of Hohenheim’s perspective, it is important to practice and study how to handle animals for this. (Almost) all of these teaching offers are part of the elective program. In the Bachelor’s programs Biology and Agricultural Biology, there is one compulsory course in which dead animals are dissected.
