Enschede (The Netherlands), 24th-29th August 2008:
"Summer school on ethics of nanotechnology"

The University of Twente is organising a "Summer school on ethics of nanotechnology" to be held in Enschede (The Netherlands) on 24th-29th August 2008.

The EthicSchool is open to researchers (Ph.D. students, postdocs and others) from a wide variety of natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities backgrounds. The programme is organised around four themes related to nanoethics: ethics of bionanotechnology; ethics of nanoelectronics/ambient intelligence; military and dual use/peaceful use/global issues of nanotechnology; religious and cultural aspects, ethical traditions and relativism in the debate about nanoethics.