Standing Committee Science & Ethics
The Standing Committee on Science & Ethics (SCSE) is concerned with a wide range of problems, 'internal' (within the scientific community) and 'external' (relations between science and society). Because ethical considerations have been an essential component in the European construction, and in the creation of ALLEA, the SCSE has been extending its capacities and activities during recent years, in order to fulfil adequately its mission of collective deliberation.
The SCSE meets at least twice a year and also convenes thematic meetings in wider settings, typically in partnerships with other relevant organizations such as European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Commission, the Council of Europe, Pugwash, International Council for Science (ICSU), or UNESCO. Some of the issues recently addressed include: scientific integrity and research misconduct, research on human embryos, quantitative evaluation of research, ethical aspects of risk, education in ethics.
For recent meetings and meeting documents, see below.
Current topics
1. Research Integrity
2. Plagiarism
3. Ethics Education as part of research training
4. Ethics of scientific policy advice
5. Emerging issues: Synthetic Biology and other fields
6. Ethics Committees
7. Support for Higher Education and research in Palestine
8. Science and Human Rights
New publications
 The European Code of Conduct on Research Integrity |
ESF/ALLEA joint report Research Integrity |
Forth coming Ethics Education in research training |
Members
Ludger Honnefelder (Chair) - Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Anna Benaki-Psarouda - Academy of Athens (from 2011)
Pieter Drenth - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Hans Galjaard until 2009)
László Fésüs - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 2010)
Dagfinn Føllesdal - Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Francisco García Novo - Real Academia de Ciencias / Instituto de España (from 2010)
Göran Hermerén - Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (from 2011)
Samia Hurst - Swiss Academies (from 2010)
Vlado Kambovski - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (from 2010)
Pavel Kratochvíl - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Ida Nicolaisen - Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (until 2009)
Beat Sitter-Liver - Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (until 2010)
Eva Smolková - Slovak Academy of Sciences (from 2010)
Marcel Storme - Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Vladislav Stefanovic - Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (from 2010)
Zbigniew Szawarski - Polish Academy of Sciences (from 2010)
Gérard Toulouse - Académie des Sciences, France (until 2010)
Anne Fagot-Largeault - Académie des Sciences, France (from 2010)
Jože Trontelj - Slovenian Academy of Sciences (from 2009)
Raivo Uibo - Estonian Academy of Sciences (Ene Ergma until 2009)
Ismail H. Ulus - Turkish Academy of Sciences (Ayşe Erzan until 2010)
Krista Varantola - Delegation of Finnish Academies of Science and Letters (from 2010)
Edoardo Vesentini - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (until 2009)
Rüdiger Klein (ex officio, ALLEA)
Observers attending meetings in 2011: CDBI (Council of Europe), EGE (European Commission), ESF, CFRS (ICSU), UNESCO.
Meetings
2011 December
Standing Committee meeting, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam 
programme
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[14 December 2011]
An international ALLEA-KNAW symposium "Plagiarism – legal, moral and educational aspects, Amsterdam
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2011 June
Standing Committee meeting with symposium "The role and remit of Ethics Committees: comparisons and best practice", Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic programme
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2011 March
Standing Committee meeting, Royal Academies of Belgium (KVAB/ARB) programme
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ð Click here for presentations and background material on "The role and remit of Ethics Committees"
ð Click here for background material on Emerging issues: Synthetic Biology and other fields
2010 November
Standing Committee meeting, Académie des Sciences, France programme
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2010 July
ALLEA Pre-conference seminar: Science, ethics and society, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore programme
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2010 June
Meeting on support for research and higher education in Palestine, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo programme
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2010 February
Standing Committee meeting, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo programme
Workshop Ethics in Research Training, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo programme
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2009 September
Standing Committee meeting, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam programme
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2009 June
ALLEA consultative symposium: Towards a European Code of Conduct on Scientific Integrity? Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Berne programme
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2009 March
Standing Committee meeting, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin programme
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For ALLEA publications on the topic of Science & Ethics please click here
For ALLEA publications and background documents on the topic of Scientific Integrity please click here
For background documents on ethical dimensions of research into Synthetic Biology please click here
Restricted working website
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