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2013

Perspectives on Sexual Identity and Gender
A workshop on bioethical issues in relation to sexual identity and gender was arranged  in Copenhagen April 18. Press here for more information.

2012

REGULATING SURROGACY IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES
Focus group meeting in Copenhagen October 22. Press here for more information.

Childrens’s Participation and Decision-Making in Medical Matters
Conference in Lund, October 11-12
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Hunting and Protecting of Marine Mammals – a Clash of Cultures?
Conference in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, June 4-5
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2011

Ethical aspects on Mental Health
Conference in Helsinki October 31 – November 1.
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Nordic Biobanks – Opportunities and Obstacles
Conference in Uppsala in cooperation with The Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University and BioBanking and Molecular Resource Infrastructure of Sweden
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A joint meeting with members from all bioethical committees in the Nordic countries took place in Copenhagen on 21 March.

2010

Prenatal Diagnosis – Individuals and Society
Conference in Oslo 2-3 December in cooperation with Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board
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Public Health – Ethical Issues
Conference in Reykjavik 30-31 August
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2009

Bioethics of Bioenergy
Conference in cooperation with The Finnish Parliament, Helsinki 17 November.
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Medical Tourism – Exploitation of vulnerable persons or a healthy supplement to the Nordic health care system?
Conference at Sigtuna, Sweden 11-12 May. Press here for more information.

Genetic Self Testing
Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark 14-15 January. Press here for more information.

2008

Chimera Research – ethical and legal aspects
In cooperation with The Danish Council of Ethics and The Danish Ethical Council for Animals,
Copenhagen 5 November.
Programme and recordings: http://www.etiskraad.dk/sw18843.asp?usepf=true

Teaching Material in Bioethics
A workshop with the purpose to identify excellent teaching material
Summary with links
Report on the project

Bioethics of the Sea II
In cooperation with The cooperation in Fisheries and Aquaculture the committee organized a seminar in Stockholm on bioethical issues concerning Nordic fisheries
Programme

2007

Dialogue on Dignity, Disability, Discrimination and Diagnostics
A meeting to discuss the challenges and possibilities that developments in biotechnology and changes in cultural values may create for the disabled in contemporary Nordic society.
A meeting for invited participants 19-20.10.2007 in Reykjavik.
Programme

Bioethics or biopolitics?
Is bioethics being replaced by biopolitics or vice versa?
Seminar 11-12.6.2007, Hanaholmen, Esbo, Finland
Programme
Read the report.

2006

Business and Bioethics
Seminar in Malmö 15-16.10.2006
Programme
Read the report.

Informed consent – in whose interest?
Minisymposium 13.6.2006, Sandhamn
Programme

2005

Nordic Biolaw – Focus on Assisted Reproduction
A seminar at Hanaholmen in Finland 7.11.2005.
Programme

Bioethics of the Sea
Workshop in Bergen, Norway 1-3.9.2005
Programme

Towards Nordic Biopolitics?
A seminar on biotechnology and bioethics.
Arranged by the Nordic Council and the Nordic Committee on Bioethics
26.1.2005 in Copenhagen.
The programme (in Norwegian)
Read the report (in Scandinavian)

2004

Bioprophecy – the future of ethics and biotechnology
Think tank for invited participants 25-26 November 2004 in Denmark.
Programme

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Selection
International conference in Reykjavik 28-29.5.2004

2003

Biomedical Research Ethics
A workshop for specialists in bio- and research ethics from the Nordic and Baltic countries in Finland 16-17.10.2003.

Teaching Bioethics
A Nordic workshop on how to best teach bioethics.

 

2001     Teaching Bioethics
2000     The ethical issues in human stem cell research
1999     Who owns our genes?
1998     Bioethics committees in the Nordic countries
1997     Biobanks
1996     Transgenic animals and xenotransplantation
1995     Gene therapy
1994     Predictive genetic testing
1993     Genetically modified organisms
1992     Patenting life?
1991     Risk, biotechnology and ethics