This website presents a set of ethical tools as developed by the project Ethical
Bio-TA Tools as funded by the European Commission, DG Research, under FP5,
Quality of Life Programme. This project has been a joint endeavour of the
Agricultural Economics Research Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands), the
National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (Oslo, Norway),
the Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (Copenhagen, Denmark), the Ethics
Institute (Utrecht, The Netherlands), the Centre for Applied Bioethics
(Nottingham, United Kingdom) and the University of Basle (Basle, Switzerland).
The Ethical Bio-TA Tools consortium (front row from left to
right – Oyvind Baune, Peter Sandoe, Matthias Kaiser, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Sandy
Tomkins, Kate Millar, Barbara Skorupinski, Marian Deblonde, Volkert Beekman; back
row from left to right – Elena Sachez [EC DG Research], Ronald de Graaff, Annika
Porsborg Nielsen, Frans Brom, Hans-Werner Ingensiep, Erik de Bakker, Erik
Thorstensen; missing: Heike Baranzke, Jesper Lassen, Ben Mepham).
The website has the following structure:
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Definition – What are ethical tools? This section presents the project’s working definition of ethical tools
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Selection – How to choose ethical tools? This section presents information on how to decide upon the application of some ethical tool
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Utilisation – How to use ethical tools? This section presents detailed instructions on how to use the respective ethical tools
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Justification – How to justify ethical tools? This section presents a philosophical justification of the developed ethical tools
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More information – This section presents some further information about the project Ethical Bio-TA Tools and the developed ethical tools
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Links – This section presents links to the websites of the participants in the project Ethical Bio-TA Tools
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Contact – This section presents contact details for those interested in receiving any further information about the presented ethical tools
