Objective
The overall project objective is to compile and analyse new approaches in ethics and law to tangible and intangible property in the human genome, plant genomes in relation to biodiversity and sustainable development, food technologies, and the information society. Commod if ¡cation and biotechnological advances in these areas of applied science are widely thought to be racing ahead of ethical understanding and legal regulation. However, there are also a number of innovative models in the research literature for rectifying this concern, although they are not always widely known. The project aims to compile existing and proposed modes of regulating these cross-cutting instances of commodification, across five FP6 thematic priorities-analysing and critiquing th em with academic and user audiences, and disseminating models of best practice. The partnership comprises 10 members in a pyramidal structure. The lead partners (CSGE) will co-ordinate the network. The remaining institutions are divided into four sets of c ountry pairs, so that pair 1 has primary responsibility for tangible and intangible property in genomics, pair 2 for copyright and the information society, pair 3 for plant/animal genome patents and biodiversity, and pair 4 for property in tissue. Followin g an initial workshop at which the relevant new regulatory models for each subject pair will be decided, in a bottom-up fashion, the partner pairs will organise two international workshops for their topic area, to critique and further develop new models fo r property regulation in those areas. A final large conference brings all this activity together. In addition to workshop reports, the project deliverables will also include a website, journal/book publications and guidelines for regulation of property in these rapidly developing areas. Dissemination of results and deliverables will be enhanced by partners' memberships of national, European and international regulatory and policy-making bodies'
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
- social sciences law
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2003-SCIENCEANDSOCIETY-4
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom
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