Official Presentation of the Unesco Chair

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Lunedì 22 Marzo 2010, ore 18:00

Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190 – Roma

Presentazione della Cattedra UNESCO di Bioetica e Diritti Umani


Il Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum

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Università Europea di Roma

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Intervengono

Prof. Henk Ten Have

Direttore della Divisione di Etica della Scienza e della Tecnologia dell´UNESCO

Prof. Alberto García

Direttore della Cattedra UNESCO di Bioetica e Diritti Umani

Rev. P. Friedrich Bechina, F.S.O.

 

Ufficiale presso la Congregazione per l´Educazione Cattolica

Prof. Enrico Garaci

Presidente del Consiglio Superiore di Sanità

Saluto

Amb. Lucio Alberto Savoia

Segretario Generale della Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l´UNESCO

Prof. P. Pedro Barrajón, L.C.

Rettore del Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum

Prof. P. Paolo Scarafoni, L.C.

Rettore dell´Università Europea di Roma

 

 

Al termine verrà offerto un buffet

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Official presentation of the UNESCO Chair

The official presentation of the UNESCO chair in Bioethics and human rights took place on the 22nd of March, 2010.

LOCANDINA_presentazi5A31DAThe event was held in the Pontifical athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and hosted the speakers: Henk Ten Have – Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Professor Alberto Garcia – Director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Reverend P. Friedrich Bechina F.S.O. – Official for the Congregation for Catholic Education, and Professor Enrico Garaci – President of the Superior Council of Sanitation.

The chair was created in July of 2009 with the collaboration of Professor Garcia and Professor Ten Have, who in his proposal highlighted the question that in 1954 gave life to the UNESCO, “How do you prevent future wars?” The response was “To begin with values.”  Therefore, to re-discover the central role of education, of culture, and of science, and promoting the art of convergence and co-operation in global bioethics.

Bioethics is an indispensable instrument to know, to share, and to promote the universal principals that permit a true, conscious and responsible development of man; principals that respect mans dignity. Therefore between bioethics and human right there is an inseparable bond. Both are based on universal principals that come from the core of the humaninvito_Cattedra_UNES5A319Fperson.

These principals are known, studied, applied, and shared for promoting Global Bioethics and spreading this spirit of co-operation through the nations, and in the end bringing us closer together and becoming citizens of the world.

It is in this spirit of reciprocity that the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights will join the 9 existing chairs, making way for a collaboration that can carry out The Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights of UNESCO, after which it is named.invito_Cattedra_UNES5A31B4

For now the agreement contains the European University of Rome, the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, (Rome)  and two other partner universities: Universidad Anahuac Norte (Mexico) and Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola.) However, this agreement is not limited to these universities, on the contrary, we hope that the in the future there many more partners.

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Question session with Tris Engelhardt

IMG_2118aOn March 11, 2010, Professor Tristram Engelhardt visited the Regina Apostolorum Univeristy and met with students and faculty.  He answered many of the questions directed to him regarding his understanding of faith and reason in bioethics, human rights, and global bioethics.

 

Confucian Bioethics, Dr. Fan Ruiping

On March 10, 2010, Dr. Fan Ruiping gave a presentation at the Regina Apostolorum University to a group of students on “Confucian Bioethics”.  Dr. Fan is a professor of bioethics from Hong Kong’s City University.  At the end, he answered questions from the participants.

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