 Since the Foundation was created on 20th December the Prize has been granted four times. The first time in 1996, to the association "Vétérinaires sans Frontieres" which has thus been able to develop its PADEC (Projet d'Appui au Développement de l'Elevage aux Comores) Project and a second time in 1998 to doctor Vandenheede for his doctorate thesis presented at the Liege University on "Les Réactions comportementales de Peur chez les Ovins domestiques"(Behavioural Reactions of fear among domestic ovine).
In 1999 , on the other hand, it was not awarded, the works submitted having failed to receive the jury's approval.
For the third time the Prize (in 2001 earmarked on the theme of the welfare of equines) went in 2001 to professor Christine Nicols of Bristol University and to Dr Paul McGreevy, of the Sidney University for their work bearing the title "A significant contribution to the welfare of horses", which is about the study of stereotypy's; abnormal behaviour, which provides a reliable indication of a lowering of the welfare of horses.
In 2003, as in 1999, the Prize of the Prince Laurent Foundation was not awarded since none of the works submitted met the expectations of the jury.
The Prize 2006 of the Prince Laurent Foundation has been bestowed upon the team of Professor Paul Flecknell, of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne (United Kingdom) for its project bearing the title : "Preventing and Alleviating Pain in Laboratory Animals - an Integrative approach to improving animal welfare".
The research team has been endeavouring for more than twenty years to alleviate the suffering of animals and to develop treatments to reduce the pain sustained. The team of Professor Flecknell succeeded to perfect a system of marking providing the possibility to estimate the intensity of the pain and the analgesic effect in post-operative conditions, sufficiently simple to be applied by non-specialists.
The proposed methodology, allowing to recognise and to alleviate the suffering of animals on the basis of observation of specific behaviour, can be extended to other animal species provided more thorough research is carried out.
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