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Call for applications for the selection of members of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE)

The Commission is calling for applications with a view to selecting members of the group.

Deadline for application: The duly completed applications must be submitted by 12:00 CET on 22 March 2021 at the latest. EGE Call for applications 2021.docx

The EGE provides guidance to the highest political level of the European Commission, reporting to the Commission President, and to the College of Commissioners as a whole, and acting under the direct responsibility of the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.

The group’s tasks shall be to provide the Commission with independent advice on questions where ethical, societal and fundamental rights dimensions intersect with the development of science and new technologies, either at the request of the Commission or on its own initiative, expressed through its chairperson and agreed with the responsible Commission department.

In particular, the group shall:

(a)    identify, define and examine ethical questions raised by developments in science and technologies;

(b)    provide guidance critical for the development, implementation and monitoring of Union policies or legislation in the form of analyses and recommendations, presented in opinions and statements, that shall be oriented towards the promotion of ethical Union policymaking, in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

The EGE plays a crucial role in the embedding of ethics in EU policies and in furthering the Union as a community of values by applying and interpreting EU principles of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, solidarity, equality, and the rule of law to ethical problems facing European societies from an independent, pluralist and multidisciplinary perspective.

Principal tasks of the EGE include clarifying ethical problems, with due regard to the regulatory and scientific state of the art, developing normative frameworks with respect to emerging ethical dilemmas, and outlining possible courses of action via policy recommendations addressed to the European institutions, national policymakers, and other stakeholders. Examples of earlier EGE advice to the Commission can be found on the EGE website.

A cross-cutting objective of the EGE's tasks is to advance the EU's global cooperation on ethics. Within the international ethics framework and the European Commission's International Dialogue on Bioethics and Ethics in Science and Technologies (IDBEST), the EGE supports the elaboration of norms and principles applied to societal developments and policy challenges impacted by scientific and technological changes.

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/call-applications-membership-european-group-ethics-launched-and-open-until-22-march-2021-2021-feb-12_en