Ethics
Major innovations and insights gained by our researchers not only help shaping a better future, they also carry new ethical questions. Whether in engineering, science or medicine – research and innovation often challenge the way we are currently perceiving ethical and moral issues. Sometimes these issues even lead to completely new questions that have not yet been considered.
Ethics is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. But ethics is as such also conditioned by both, cultural background and individual moral concepts. However, in the fast–paced globalised world of the 21st century, it is a consensus in the science community that we need to agree on and establish certain ground rules.
Ethics in science provides a frame of reference, wherein researchers can find a source of information which helps them to consider the ethical and moral issues of their work.
The IDEA League Task Force Ethics deals with ethical problems relating to research, education and innovation and thus raises awareness of ethical standards.
The IDEA League Task Force Ethic has released a statement on ethics, which can be read here:
IDEA League Statement on Ethics
On 7 June 2008 the IDEA League Task Force Ethics held an international workshop on Neuroethics:
