CELAB Starts €3.3 Million Project Involving 18 European Research Centers

May 10, 2013

CEU’s Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine has initiated work on a Seventh Framework Programme project on “neuro-enhancement: responsible research and innovation” (NERRI). The project, which will run for three years and involves 18 research centers across Europe, has a total budget of €3,287,632 . The CELAB research team is chaired by Director Judit Sandor. Partners include the London School of Economics and Political Science, King’s College, Ciencia Viva-Agencia National Para a Cultura Cientifica e Technologica (Lisbon), Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the European Brain Council. The consortium comprises experts in the neurocognitive sciences, the social sciences and humanities, and science communication. The main aim of the project is to contribute to the introduction of responsible research and innovation in the field of neuro-enhancement and to the shaping of a normative framework underpinning the governance of neuro-enhancement technologies. In the field of neuroenhancement, contemporary biomedicine has reached a crucial turning point at which it has become possible to not only restore health, but also to improve it.