Coordinated by Bob van de Water, Professor of Toxicology at Leiden University (The Netherlands), EU-ToxRisk brings together an international consortium of 39 partner organisations composed of academia, SMEs, large industry, contract research organisations (CROs) and regulatory bodies. EU-ToxRisk (www.eu-toxrisk.eu) builds on testing strategies and knowledge developed in previous national and European projects, including the SEURAT-1 programme, a cluster of seven projects in the field of animal-free safety assessment: 2010-2015 (www.seurat-1.eu/). For more information, see the official Press release.