Science has undergone, since the end of the XX century, a biotechnological development hardly imagined some years ago. Genetics, medicine and new technologies have transformed human reality as we knew it up to now, raising serious ethical doubts. Is everything technically possible also acceptable in ethical terms? And if so, where are the legal limits? In Biolaw it converge science to reach an advanced knowledge, ethics to question the limits and the complexity of realities and law to offer a fair response. However, the professional world and the academia lack the skills, the training opportunities and the necessary resources to cope with these problems. With this project, we hope to create a mass of well trained lecturers and professionals in the field of Biolaw at each partner institution in Costa Rica and Mexico. On the basis of the existing offer and demand, we will develop 4 capacity and 2 doctoral courses online, focused on research skills and on Bio-law specific topics. We will support the launch of a new joint doctoral programme in Mexico and will support its expansion with 1 more university in Mexico and 2 new in Costa Rica. The courses will be developed and taught online and in 3 different languages (English, French and Spanish). The new academic offer, together with a set of training and dissemination activities –international seminars, conferences and stays abroad- and the help of new elearning and bibliographical equipment, will come to integrate the partner’s doctoral and lifelong learning offer, contributing this way to the emergence of a critical mass of well trained lecturers and professionals and to its further development, also at international level.The project will surely impact not only in partner institutions, improving their accessibility, visibility and their capacity of attraction and influence, but also in the public and private sectors of Health, Environment a Law in the partner regions and countries.
With this project, we hope: a) to create a mass of well trained students, lecturers and professionals in the field of Biolaw at each partner country, Costa Rica and Mexico (Health, Law and Environment being the pivotal related fields); b) to develop an high quality academic offer online in the field of Biolaw consisting in capacity building and doctoral courses and a new joint doctoral programme; c) to equip partner institutions to further develop and apply the science of Biolaw.
Science has undergone a biotechnological development that raises serious ethical doubts. Is everything technically possible also acceptable in ethical terms? And if so, where are the legal limits? In Biolaw it converges science to reach an advanced knowledge, ethics to question the limits and the complexity of realities and law to offer a fair response. However, the professional world and the academia lack the skills, the training opportunities and the necessary resources to cope with these prob
<< Background >> Science has undergone a biotechnological development that raises serious ethical doubts. Is everything technically possible also acceptable in ethical terms? And if so, where are the legal limits? In Biolaw it converges science to reach an advanced knowledge, ethics to question the limits and the complexity of realities and law to offer a fair response. However, the professional world and the academia lack the skills, the training opportunities and the necessary resources to cope with these prob << Objectives >> With this project, we hope: a) to create a mass of well trained students, lecturers and professionals in the field of Biolaw at each partner country, Costa Rica and Mexico (Health, Law and Environment being the pivotal related fields); b) to develop an high quality academic offer online in the field of Biolaw consisting in capacity building and doctoral courses and a new joint doctoral programme; c) to equip partner institutions to further develop and apply the science of Biolaw. << Implementation >> The implementation of the project has been carried out with the involvement of a large number of participants from all the partner universities and has also attracted a large number of highly relevant social actors. The preparatory tasks, those of curricular development, teaching, quality assessment, dissemination and management have been almost entirely carried out in Mexico and Costa Rica. << Results >> 1 website and + 600 elearning resources for Biolaw available;4 universities in MX and CR equipped for e-learning and with ground bibliographical resources in the field of Biolaw;2 doctoral and 4 capacity building courses;24 students and teachers trained in Europe2 Iberoamerican conferences organized and 1 international day on Biolaw. 1 Doctorate jointly approved by 8 universities and to be offered this year in CR, MX and AR.4 social networks2 external and 1 internal quality reports