The European Union faces a growing number of complex, overlapping, cross-border crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It needs to improve how it prepares for and responds to them according to the scientific and ethical advice which will be handed over to the Commission at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 22 November 2022.
At the Commission’s request, independent experts from the Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism and the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies will jointly present an evidence review report, policy recommendations and a detailed statement on ethics to Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth and Janez Lenarčič, Commissioner for Crisis Management.
Speakers:
Tina Comes (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies - SAPEA, Full Professor TU Delft Decision Theory & ICT TU Delft, Full Professor Decision-Making & Digitalisation U Maastricht, Scientific Director 4TU.Resilience Engineering)
Maarja Kruusma (European Commissions Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, Professor and Vice-Rector of research, Tallinn University of Technology - TalTech, Estonia, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU)
Barbara Prainsack (Chair, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies - EGE, Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis and Head of the Research Platform Governance of digital practices, University of Vienna)
Handover to the EU Commissioners:
Mariya Gabriel (EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth)
Janez Lenarcic (EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, strengthening the Emergency)
The handover will be livestreamed and can be followed without any registration here.
The detailed statement on ethics will be released on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at the EGE Statements landing page of the European Commission.
