ETHICSWEB
ETHICSWEB
Inter-connected European information and documentation system for ethics and science:
European ethics documentation centre
Abstract
It is the overall aim of ETHICSWEB to stimulate an enhanced democratic debate on ethical issues of science and to promote a more engaged and informed public. Therefore, existing information and documentation systems will be connected to allow and ensure an easy access to comprehensive information on science and ethics. At the same time sophisticated tools, both technical and semantic, will be applied or – if necessary developed – to make the huge amount of information available for all parties involved.
ETHICSWEB will be a common, decentralized European access point for information that is made available in different European member states, by various regional providers and centres as well as by international organizations. ETHICSWEB strives for the documentation of different sources which include information on ethics and science like
- literature
- laws, regulations and guidelines
- training materials and training programmes
- academic exchange programmes
- centres, projects and experts
- events and news (such as conferences, calls for papers and new initiatives)
An information portal will serve as a common gateway to ETHICSWEB and will secure easy access to comprehensive information. At the same time, ETHICSWEB is open for new partners to be involved in the future. This entails capacity building in those areas where a lack of data collections can be identified.
Co-ordinator
German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn), Germany
Partners
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German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn), Germany - Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)
Italy - Centre for Ethics (CEUT)
Tartu Ülikool (University of Tartu), Estonia - Regional Bioethics Information Centre (RBIC)
Vilniaus universitetas (University of Vilnius), Lithuania - Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine / Information and Documentation Centre on Ethics in Medicine (IDEM) (UMG-GOE)
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (University Medical Center Göttingen), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (University of Göttingen), Germany - Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)
Univerza v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana), Slovenia - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm)
Paris, France - Institut de Tecnoètica
Fundació Ètica Tecnologia i Societat, Barcelona, Spain - Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society (CCELS)
Cardiff University, United Kingdom - International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (University of Tübingen), Germany - Ethics Institute (UU-EI)
Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University), The Netherlands - Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, UNESCO
Paris, France - Karolinska Institutet University Library (KIB)
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden - Centre for Ethics and Law (CEL)
Copenhagen, Denmark - Department of Health, Ethics and Society (HES)
Universiteit Maastricht (University of Maastricht), The Netherlands
Funded by
European Commission
Funding period
June 2008 - August 2011
Contact person at DRZE
Dr. Dirk Lanzerath
lanzerath@drze.de +49 (0)228 3364 1930 +49 (0)228 3364 1940
