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EGAIS Project - The Ethical GovernAnce of emergIng technologieS

Event date 02.03.2009

The EGAIS Project, funded by the European Community under the Seventh Framework Program, aims to analyze ethics governance processes within innovative technology development projects (in particular, ambient intelligence, nanotechnology, nuclear technologies). The project has a relevant impact on society as the development of outputs evolves in close collaboration with the main stakeholders involved directly and indirectly in Ethics Governance processes (decision-makers, project managers, IT companies, academics, scientific community, civil society, policy makers, European Commission as a funder of IT projects, etc.). In fact, it is noted that, to date, IT projects do not sufficiently integrate potential ethical considerations throughout their life cycle and, as a result, Ethics Governance is often absent altogether. EGAIS also envisages the development of an online knowledge community for ongoing stakeholder discussion, through which the project's deliverables and public outputs will be made accessible, including analysis of strategic ethical issue management models, definition of Ethics Governance models, and solutions and suggestions for effective integration of ethics within technology development projects. Project partners

  • Facultes Universitaires Notre dame de la Paix Namur (Belgium)
  • Middlesex University (UK)
  • Institute Catholique des Arts et Métiers (France)
  • Institute of Information Science Maribor (Slovenia)

  (Consortium exit date: April 1, 2011). To learn about the main results of the project and to be updated on events organized by the EGAIS Consortium, the following documents can be consulted.