International events

In this section you will find details of upcoming international conferences, seminars and lectures relating to medical ethics and law.

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Call for Abstracts - ICCEC 2020

The 16th International Conference on Clinical Ethics & Consultation invites abstracts for their 2020 conference Beyond Boundaries: exploring new frontiers (31 March - 3 April 2020), Capetown, South Africa.

Last date for submissions: 18 October 2019

 

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Paving the way for personalized medicine. Legal, ethical and social challenges

18 November 2019, Salerno University, School of Law, Italy

Keynote speaker: Professor Leonard M. Fleck, Acting Director Department of Philosophy

 

Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences

Michigan State University (USA)


More information here.

 

 



8th Edition of the Intensive Course on Foundational Approaches, Contemporary and Educational Issues in Nursing Ethics

 

3-6 December 2019, Leuven, Belgium

 

The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the KU Leuven is organizing the 8th edition of the Intensive Course on Nursing Ethics. The objective of the course is to foster exchanges on foundational and methodological approaches as well as on contemporary and educational issues in nursing ethics. This course works from an interdisciplinary – philosophical, nursing, clinical-ethical – perspective.

 

During the course, national and international experts will give presentations on various topics in the domain of nursing ethics. There will be time for intensive discussions. The language of instruction will be English.

 

The course is of interest to participants from diverse professional backgrounds, such as nursing, medicine, philosophy and theology, health care administration, and is open to health care workers, people from universities and university colleges, members of ethics committees or ethics consultation services, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in these areas.

 

Detailed information on program, funding opportunities, registration and payment can be found at our website here under Intensive Course.

 

 



Master of Bioethics in Leuven

Since 2000, the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the University of Leuven (Belgium) has offered a Master of Bioethics programme in collaboration with the University of Padova (Italy) and the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). More than 270 students from 70 different countries have since then followed the programme.

From the academic year 2016-2017 the University of Leuven is coordinating a newly designed curriculum hosting students during a whole academic year in Leuven.

For the academic year 2016-2017, various fellowships will be granted to students who want to participate in their Master of Bioethics programme.

More information on the program is available from www.masterbioethics.org

Please see their Facebook page for notifications about training, study, and conference opportunities, as well as vacancies in the field of Bioethics https://www.facebook.com/bioethicsstudyandtraining