- The
development and improvement of ethical decision-making frameworks
to facilitate regulatory decision-making about modern biotechnologies;
- The
development and improvement of consensus conferences to
facilitate public opinion-formation about ethical aspects
of modern biotechnologies;
- The
development and improvement of ethical benchmarking to facilitate
decision-making by economic actors in the food chain;
- The
establishment of a network for comparative discussions about
ethical (bio)technology assessment tools for agriculture
and food production
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| The workplan
of the project is broken down in three substantial workpackages (WPs): |
WP1
(Ethical decision-making frameworks) aims at the development
of a practical decision-making framework to assist public and
private decision-makers map and consider the ethical dimensions
of animal and plant biotechnologies;
WP2 (Consensus conferences) aims at the development and improvement
of consensus conferences to facilitate public opinion-formation
about the ethical aspects of modern biotechnologies in animal and
plant breeding;
WP3
(Benchmarking) aims at the development of ethical benchmarking
as a tool to facilitate communication between economic actors in
the food chain and consumers in order to gain trustworthiness.
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| The primary
achievement of the project will be the availability of three ethical(bio)technology
assessment tools to facilitate opinion-formation and decision-making
in agriculture and food production. |
Participating
Institutes
Project
plan
Interim Report
Ethical Bio-TA Tools |
