UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
Fostering the Art of Convergence and Cooperation in Global Ethics
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Activities and News
New GEM 2022 Gender Report
The 2022 Gender Report calls for us to #DeepentheDebate on gender equality in education.Firstly it calls for us to pay closer attention to data. The Report has relied upon UIS data on gender gaps in out-of-school rates and a new comprehensive dataset on completion...
Report – Brain Awareness Week 2022
From March 15 to 19, the Neurobioethics Study Group coordinated by Fr. Alberto Carrara, L.C., professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights (School of Bioethics), participated with numerous national and...
Contribution to the UNESCO conference on “World Higher Education” (WHEC) – A digitally education system with a bioethical framework
by Claudia Fini, Chair Research Scholar In contribution to the UNESCO conference on "World Higher Education" (WHEC), the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights collaborated with Portulans Institute and IIASA for the production of a policy brief entitled: Building...
Training Course in Neurobioethics: NEUROBIOETHICS AND THE METAVERSE – VI edition
OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAM The Interdisciplinary Research Group in Neurobioethics (GdN) of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (APRA) in Rome, taking its lead from neuroscientific research and applications of emerging and converging technologies to humans, will...
The Matrix Resurrections
By Ana Maria Ganev, Chair Intern and PhD candidate “You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” (The...
Fr. Alberto Carrara, L.C., Coordinator Of The Neurobioethics Group, at the meeting “Catholic Fact-Checking.”
On January 28, 2022, at the 'Catholic Fact-Checking' meeting organized by the International Catholic Media Consortium, Fr. Alberto Carrara, L.C., Coordinator of the APRA Neurobioethics Group - President of the International Institute of Neurobioethics, presented the...
The International UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of Higher Education
The International UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of Higher Education is organized jointly by Italy and UNESCO at Expo 2020 Dubai to mark the International Day of Education 2022 on 24 January. Watch the live streaming The International UNESCO Chairs Forum is held...
“Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction”
Editors: Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia Gómez, John LunstrothPublisher: SpringerYear: 2021Link: springer.com This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the...