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.

Friday September 11, 2020

10.00 Board meeting (for EACME Board members only)

Programme Webinar ‘Ethics in pandemic times:

EACME and Covid-19 responses’ September 11, 2020, 13:00-15:00 (CET)

Zoomlink: https://maastrichtuniversity.zoom.us/j/98614790019?pwd=VGpuRXFGZG5lYmxSdWNzR3VTVnM3UT09

Meeting ID: 986 1479 0019

Password: 648790

13:00 Welcome (Rouven Porz, President) – incl. mention of elections at 16:00, renewal of Bureau and Board

13:15 News from Angelique Heijnen (Executive Board Secretary), introduction of Kim Zandvliet

13:25 EACME Paul Schotsmans Prize (Ruth Horn, Secretary – General)

13:35 EACME Collaboration Prize (Bert Molewijk, Treasurer)

13:40 New editor (Giles Birchley – Caroline Brall)

13:45 Announcing the new dates Cluj conference 2021 (Maria Aluas)

13:50 Webinar ‘‘Ethics in pandemic times: EACME and Covid-19 responses’ Introduction (Ruth Horn)

13:55 Solidarity in times of a pandemic: What do people do, and why? A comparative and longitudinal qualitative study in nine European countries. Barbara Prainsack, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, Vienna.

14:10 Being an ethics advisor to the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Michael Parker, Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Oxford.

14:25 Being an Ethics advisor at Zorgnet-Icuro (organisation of healthcare institutions in Flanders). Yvonne Denier, Centrum voor Biomedische Ethiek en Recht, Leuven.

14:40 Clinical ethics support in times of pandemics. Federico Nicoli, Center for Clinical Ethics Varese, Bert Molewijk, Amsterdam University Medical Center.

15:00 Break

15:30 General Assembly with Board Elections (for EACME members only)

17:00 Closure General Assembly

Please note: We will send the Zoom links one week before the meetings.

Dear colleagues,

The EACME Board has been following the developments of the CoVID-19 pandemic closely over the past few months. Considering the uncertainties we are facing, the various measures countries have adopted, and the global travel restrictions in place, the EACME Daily Board, has taken the sad decision to cancel the EACME 2020 Conference in Cluj and postpone it until 2021.

This decision has been taken together with our host in Cluj, Maria Aluas, who kindly offered to reschedule the organisation to next year.

The new dates are: September 9 – 11, 2021. Please save these dates!

Maria Aluas will be in contact with you shortly.

Furthermore, we wish to inform you that abstracts accepted for presentation will be valid in 2021; however, participants can, of course, also resubmit new abstracts.

Good news: there will be an EACME Paul Schotsmans Prize available for young talented scholars this year and also next year. We are in the middle of this year’s process; the winners will present their work in Cluj 2021. And there will also be EACME Collaboration Prizes and Visiting Scholarships available.

Although we will not be able to meet ‘physically’ this year, we would like to invite you to join us for a short ‘virtual conference’ on Friday, 11^th September 2020.

This will be an opportunity to hear about some of the work EACME members have been involved with during the pandemic, as well as to present the winners of the Schotsmans’ Prize and the EACME Collaboration Prize. We will also set up a ‘Zoom General Assembly’.

We will be in touch again with further details about the programme and how to join the meeting.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your commitment and hope to be able to host you in Romania in 2021!

We extend to you and your families our sincere wishes for good health in these difficult times,

Ruth HORN, Secretary-General

Rouven PORZ, President

Bert MOLEWIJK, Treasurer

Angelique HEIJNEN, Executive Board Secretary

2020 EACME CONFERENCE

CLUJ-NAPOCA (ROMANIA), 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2020

 “SMART ETHICS – TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE”

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 2020 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 2020 Annual conference of EACME in Cluj-Napoca – the heart of Transylvania!

Topics include the following 4 themes:

DATES AND DEADLINES

Abstract Proposals: March 1, 2020.
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2020.
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 2020.

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 2020:

1. The Open Forum Day of the European Clinical Ethics Network (ECEN: www.ecenetwork.org). Please contact Bert Molewijk: a.molewijk@vumc.nl
2. 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

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