The Landscape and Isobars of European Values in Relation to Science and New Technology

(Value Isobars)

A research project  funded by the European Comission, June 2009- November 2011

Goal 

The goal of this project is to provide the blueprints for a value-based and value-informed new and flexible governance of the science-society relation in Europe.

The study shall identify necessary research tasks in order to move from a generic understanding of value-based and value-informed governance to more specific mechanisms of governance that improve current practice.

Emerging biotechnologies with dual use problematic and security technologies (biometrics) shall serve as pilots to test the validity of the framework.

The key research challenges are:

• understanding the very concept of social/ethical values in both socio-political and philosophical respect

• improving the methodology for the study of values

• identifying innovative mechanisms of platforms for value-based dialogue in civil society and citizen consultation

• and assessing the potential of legal and regulatory instruments, including soft-law, to provide value-oriented framework orientation for scientific and technological development.  

  

Funding

This project is funded by the European Comission  under 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme), research area: SiS-2008-1.1.2.1 Ethics and new and emerging fields of science and technology.

Project Funding: 819971.00 euro.

Project number:  230557 

  

	Project funded by the Science in Society Programme

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