Institute for Science and Ethics
Science & Ethics synergies for responsible innovations
About us
The Institute for Science and Ethics supports and accompanies private or academic organizations to develop ethical approaches and frameworks, to help forming value-based collaborations and allows to better assess and monitor any innovation products or concepts.
This is based on solid collaboration with our experts: scientists in the marine and health sectors, experts in IT and digitalization, philosopher and social scientists.
The institute offers also the development of communication strategies towards policy makers and various stakeholders in science.
Applied Ethics -Through reflection and implementation of methodologies, the Institute provides solutions to minimize risks linked to any innovative projects.
Diagnostic of innovation impact
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…to identify the main potential short-term or long-term impact of the development of new technologies on human health, the environment, protection of the person and geo-politics.
Identification of legal framework
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…when innovations do not fall into specific legislation but are linked to several existing regulations at national and European levels.
Ideation
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…this creative process, co-designed with the main interested party, aims at producing and communicating new ideas to develop methodologies to overcome the ethical challenges.
Implementation
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…of the methodologies which include specific actions to ensure the protection of persons, to minimize the impact on the environment / human health. Where severe ethical issues, Ethical committees can be implemented in correlation with the sector of interest.
Our Founder
Dr Michèle Barbier, is a marine biologist educated in the medical field and has more than 20-year experience in marine sciences and in management of large international consortium. She is now Independent Ethics Expert for the European Commission and has been involved in many projects dealing with Intellectual Property Rights and legislation.
She has a long experience as scientific officer in an inter-governmental organisation setting dialogue with Policy makers and various stakeholders.
She is now co-coordinator of the section France of the International Association for Promoting GeoEthics – IAPG.
Please see CV here: CV_Mbarbier
Ethics & legislation
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- Marine bioprospecting & Nagoya protocol, UNCLOS
- Data protection & EU regulation 2016/679
Ethical design
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Reflection & discussion on innovative products/concepts
- Co-design methodologies to overcome issues.
- Set-up dialogue with policy-makers to inform.
- Marine Biotechnology
- Seaweed Aquaculture
- Ocean observation
- Connected objects
Dialogue with Policy makers
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Set-up Dialogue with Policy makers and various stakeholders.
- Design of guidelines or white papers related to different topics.
- Identification of the main stakeholders for dissemination
Stakeholder Management
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Management of major scientific consortia or WPs.
- Respect cultural difference and human
- International dimension
Scientific communication
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Definition of strategies for communication towards policy makers, scientists, the public at large and economic actors.
Our colleagues are working in these institutions
Contact Us
31 avenue Maréchal Foch,
06 000 Nice – France
Presentations
Access and use of Marine Resources, Legislation & Ethics
Frontiers in Marine Biotechnology Conference, Muscat, Oman, 5 February 2018
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Abstracts
PEGASUS – PHYCOMORPH EUROPEAN GUIDELINES FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE OF SEAWEEDS
Presentation of PEGASUS: Phycomorph European Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture of seaweeds at the Aquaculture Canada 2018 Conference, Québec, 27-30 May, 2018, Québec, Canada
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Articles
Ethical recommendations for ocean observation
Ethical recommendations for ocean observation, Barbier, M., Reitz, A., Pabortsava, K., Wölfl, A.-C., Hahn, T., and Whoriskey, F. Adv. Geosci., 45, 343-361, 2018,
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-45-343-2018
Marine Biotechnology, a hot topic
Marina Mutual and Mobilisation Learning Workshop, Nice, 29 January 2018
Marine Biotechnology Hot Topic
Monaco 0cean Week 2018 report
The restitution book of the “Monaco 0cean Week 2018” has been released. A nice article on the cocktail-conference event on Beauty, sea and ethics, organised by the Institute for Science & Ethics in collaboration with the Centre Scientifique de Monaco is available
IAPG France, co-chaired by Michèle Barbier & David Crookall.
The International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) is a multidisciplinary, scientific platform for widening the debate on problems of Ethics applied to Geosciences. Michèle Barbier and David Crookall are co-coordinating the section France to Promote GeoEthics.
European strategy for the Atlantic ocean observing
Workshop on European strategy for the Atlantic ocean observing systems within the AtlantOS (EC H2020 project) legacy activities. Brussels, 4-5 June 2018.
Monaco Ocean Week, 9 April, Conference on Beauty, sea and Ethics
The Conference on Beauty, sea and ethics co-organised by the Institute for Science & Ethics and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco in the Framework of the Monaco Ocean Week, on 9th April was a great success. Thanks to the speakers and the participants.