Team:Valencia Biocampus/HP

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Human Practices Section

Human Practices

Responsible Research and Innovation

Teams usually think of Human Practices as the study of legal, ethical, moral or biosafety issues. However, our team has found a new an interesting point of view: Responsible Research and Innovation. We committed to apply it from the first day of work to the last, so that, we would be able to show everyone the clarity and openness that characterizes what we have done.

We have written a report on Responsible Research and Innovation, a dialogue between science and society, and we applied its 6 key pillars in the iGEM competition: engagement, gender equity, science education, open access, ethics and governance.


The survey

Associated to the RRI report we realized an on-line survey to scientists working in different branches. What we pretended with this was to make them think about what moves them to choose their working projects: the budget, their personal interest, the benefits for society…


Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology

We wrote Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology, the first book containing short stories based on five positive ideas from five of our students and five negative more of which benefits and problems Synthetic Biology can provide. You can download the book for free and draw your own conclusions!

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