EACME Events Programme

EACME hold an annual conference in September. The conference is held in a different European city each year, hosted by one of our centre members.

2021 EACME CONFERENCE

CLUJ-NAPOCA (ROMANIA), 9-11 SEPTEMBER 2021

“SMART ETHICS – TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE”

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 2021 Annual Conference of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will be held at luliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, in Cluj-Napoca (Romania).

The EACME conference will offer an opportunity to explore old and new ethical issues related to healthcare in the context of rapid advances in data and digital technologies, and other health technologies. These developments raise important questions about their transformative effects on individuals’ lives, doctor-patient relationships, but also existing ethical and governance frameworks.

Against this background, it is important to encourage open dialogue and critical thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of technological advances and the challenges they pose for good ethical practice. The conference will offer a platform for exchange and stimulate reflection about innovative and ‘smart’ ways of addressing these issues in theory, policy and law, and practice. Is the medical ethics community ready for the future challenges?

The aim of the conferences is to facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to ethical questions raised by scientific and technological developments in healthcare by bringing together scholars from bioethics and other related fields across Europe.

Interactive panels will discuss different bioethical issues in new and developing areas of healthcare.

We are looking forward to hosting the 2021 Annual conference of EACME in Cluj-Napoca – the heart of Transylvania!

Topics include the following 4 themes:

1. Philosophy and Law Rebooted

· Epistemologies

· Theories

· Histories

· Legislations

· Public Health

2. New Technologies, Vulnerabilities and Disabilities

· Medicalisation and Digitalisation

· Responsibility and Dependency

· Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

· Ageing and Community Care

· COVID-19

3. Innovations in Teaching and Supporting Ethical Practice

· Transforming Ethics Education

· Teaching Future Teachers

· Building Ethics Competency

· New Methods Clinical Ethics Support

· Ethics Education in Times of COVID-19

4. Research Ethics, Integrity and Governance

· Revising Principals and Values

· Misconduct

· Global Challenges

· Cases, Rules and Regulations

· Fake News and Confusion

DATES AND DEADLINES

Abstract Proposals: March 1, 2021.
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2021.
Submissions on other topics are allowed.
Papers will be selected from the abstracts by the Conference Programme Committee.
Accepted abstracts will be published in a Special Edition of Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Bioethica in September 2021.

EACME invites applications of junior scholars for the EACME prize.

Congress president: Maria Aluas PhD, luliu Hatieganu University of Cluj-Napoca.

Conference website: http://www.confix.eu

In addition, we expect to have two satellite meetings on the 9^th September 2021:

The Open Forum Day of the European Clinical Ethics Network (ECEN: www.ecenetwork.org). Please contact Bert Molewijk: a.molewijk@amsterdamumc.nl
European Network of the Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education. Please contact Yesim Isil Ulman: yesimul@yahoo.com

Best wishes, Maria Aluas

Chair of the Conference

Recent Events

2020 Annual Conference as an online webinar

11th September 2020

Ethics in Pandemic Times: EACME and COVID-19 responses

Past Conferences

Oxford 2019	Rethinking Ethics in 21st Century Europe
Amsterdam 2018	Ethics in Action
Barcelona 2017	Justice in Health Care – Values in Conflict
Leuven 2016	30 Years of European Bioethics
Cagliari 2015	Clinical Ethics: Past, Present and Future
Lille 2014	Frailty, vulnerability and social participation
Bochum 2013	Personalised Medicine
Bristol 2012	Other voices, other rooms
Istanbul 2011	Bioethics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Oslo 2010	Empirical Ethics
Venice 2009	Multiculturalism, Religions, and Bioethics
Prague 2008	Organizing Bioethics: Challenges for Western, Central and Eastern Europe
Zurich 2007	Bioethics in the Real World
Leuven 2006	New Pathways for European Bioethics
Barcelona 2005	Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical Technologies
Lille 2004	Predictive Medicine And Role of Genetic Testing
Lisbon 2003	Ethical Issues in Chronic Care
Maastricht 2002	End of life decisions
Padua 2001	Bioethics Education
London 2000	European Perspectives on the Physician-Patient Relationship and on Resource Allocation. The European Bioethics Convention
Marseille 1999	Génétique Humaine et Lois de Bioéthique
Rome 1998	Ethics & Mental Health
Coimbra 1997	Common Good and Individual Wellbeing
Leuven 1996	Persistent Vegetative States
Barcelona 1995	Allocation of Resources and Choices in Health
Pecs 1994	Values to promote in Western and Eastern Countries
Bad Segeberg 1993	Teaching Medical Ethics
Paris 1992	Dignité Humaine; Perte de Dignité
Stockholm 1990	Suicide
London 1990	Dignity in the care of Elderly
Genève 1989	Ethique de la Recherche sur les Etres Humains
Lyon 1989	Bioéthique et Droit de l’Homme
Athens 1988	Health Education
Bellagio 1988	Europe-America Meeting
Rome 1987	Guide to Medical Ethics
London 1987	Ethics Committees and training their members