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Cite as: Yesim Isil Ulman, (On behalf of the Group BENE), A Brand-New Formation: The Bioethics Education Network Europe (BENE), EACME Newsletter, No. 67, September 2024, pp.10-11.
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Brand-New Formation: The Bioethics Education Network Europe (BENE)
The Purpose of the Network:
The Bioethics Education
Network Europe (BENE) is a new initiative by academics,
researchers, and experts working in the field of bioethics and bioethics
education. The platform aims to develop bioethics education through annual
meetings with bioethics educators in Europe and beyond.
The purpose of BENE is to raise
awareness of the importance of teaching in bioethics and to encourage people
and institutions to work together in bioethics education in their countries by exchanging
experiences and ideas on bioethics teaching and developing joint projects. BENE
will organize satellite meetings related to the EACME conferences as a platform
organized by and for people with experience in the practice, research, and
training of bioethics education. The Network was founded in February 2024.
Founding members of BENE
Rouven Porz (Switzerland, Chair); Yesim
Isil Ulman (Turkey, vice chair); Matt James (UK); Marielle Diepeveen (the
Netherlands); Tobias Eichinger (Switzerland); Maria Aluas (Romania); Annett
Wienmeister (Germany).
Aims of the Network
BENE aims to increase the quality of
ethics teaching in universities, hospitals, and for the public. The Network intends
to foster discussing teaching & learning of different kinds of knowledge,
and competencies relevant and necessary for bioethics. BENE will promote theoretical
and practical as well as scientific, ethical, didactic, legal, philosophical
discussions in connection with different learning objectives, methods,
evaluation, and examination formats and so on.
BENE aims at networking, organising
scientific events, summer schools, exploring teaching bioethics in terms of
professionalism, by creating a methodological framework.
Furthermore, BENE plans designing
multi-centred studies on teaching bioethics to interact with; setting up a
website and use social media to spread the news and widen visibility; creating
a common space for sharing materials, documents; learning from each other in a
multidisciplinary and pluralistic environment.
Upcoming Activity
BENE is inviting you to a Webinar in
Autumn 2024. The theme is “Why Teaching Matters in Bioethics?”
Date & Time of the Webinar is 28
November 2024; 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. CET. The speakers are Rouven Porz: «Teaching
Skills»; Annett Wienmeister: «Argumentative Skills»; Maria Aluas: «Evaluation
in teaching ethics»; Yesim Isil Ulman: «Experience from a VIRT2UE
Reseach Integrity Trainer». Allocated time for each talk is 15 minutes
each, and we will have 30 minutes for discussion. For registration: please send
an e-mail to Prof. Rouven Porz: rouven.porz@insel.ch
Acknowledgements
We would like to extend our special thanks to Guy Widdershoven for his guidance and ideas on our initiative. We are so thankful to the EACME Board for their supportive approach. Our special thanks go to Prof. Dr. Jan Schildmann, and the EACME Halle Team for kindly placing us in the Scientific Programme. We really appreciate EACME Network, bioethicists, educators, academicians, researchers, experts, anyone interested in bioethics teaching to reach out to us by valuable comments, opinions, participation, and contributions