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Abstract: This paper present results of the first stage of the INES Project. INES is a research project funded by the European Commission in the scope of the Action Plan on Science and Society of the Framework Programe 6th. The report informs about the results of an international survey that was made and fulfilled by partners of the project. The results show different levels of the institutionalisation and various approaches to the institutionalisation of ethics in science policy according to the country. Today's ethic and public discourse are challenged by a unique shift from collective control and hierarchical decision making to individual control and decision making that will mark the technological revolution. The very natures of new technologies make regulating and controlling them particularly challenging. Traditional "top-down" methods of governance of ethical and social issues - chiefly based on standard-sitting ethical bodies - will have little space. New mechanisms for incorporating ethics in policy making are neede, and tehy must emerge quickly, and be flexible, and have broad buy-in. |
