Italy

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (848), established in 2009 at the The Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum and Universitą Europea di Roma (Italy)

 

Fields/Disciplines Bioethics and human rights. Objectives The Specific objectives of the Chair are to: contribute to the integral formation of higher education students and teachers from several countries, in particular those from developing countries, in the field of the responsibility of using new technologies, through conferences, courses of specialization and a doctorate programme; coordinate and organize activities in order to study research on the ethical and legal aspects of new biotechnologies used for therapeutic purposes in respect of human dignity and human rights; and conduct multidisciplinary research of new relevant questions that arise in biomedicine, bio-law and ecology particularly in problems that concern human life. Host Institution Universitą Europea di Roma The Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum UNESCO Chair website UNESCO Sector/Office responsaible for this Chair/Network Social and Human Sciences