Helpathon #6 - Can you help Sue?

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The Helpathon team is professionalising their #animalfreeinnovation helpathon practice. After two days of hard work the question how the Helpathon Hotel sould look like took shape. This friendly, disruptive, co-creative approach has proven to create new networks, new insights and in the most tangible way new animal free research projects. We are proceeding under the new name of #helpathonhotel.

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