The central events of the ENHANCE project was eight workshops followed by a final conference in September 2007.

The workshops addressed the four research areas targeted in the project, namely: Enhancement of cognition, Mood, Physical performance and Extension of life span. There were two workshops on each topic (one in 2006 and one in 2007)

Conferences 2007

September 27, 2007 Final Workshop, Bristol

June, 22-24 2007 Enhancement and Genetics, Jena

Arranged by the Ethical Centre Jena at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena together with the Uehiro Centre.

Workshops 2007

March 27-30: Workshop on cognition and physical enhancement, Stockholm

Arranged by Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University and by Stockholm Bioethics Centre, University of Stockholm. Report from the cognition enhancement workshop (pdf), report from the Sports workship (pdf).

April 26-28: Workshop on mood enhancement

Arranged by the Institute of Bioethics, University of Maastricht. Workshop report (pdf)

May 17-18: Workshop on extension of the life span

Arranged by The Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita Saluta-San Raffaele. Workshop report (pdf).

Conferences 2006

August 2006 ENHANCE Satellite Conference, Beijing

The meeting was held in association with The 8th World Congress of Bioethics in Beijing. For more information, see this page.

Workshops 2006

May 2006: Workshop on cognition

Arranged by Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. Report.

May 2006: Workshop on Physical enhancement

Arranged by Stockholm Bioethics Centre, University of Stockholm. Report.

June 2006: Workshop on mood enhancement

Arranged by the Institute of Bioethics, University of Maastricht. Report.

September 2006: Workshop on Extension of the life span

Arranged by The Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita Saluta-San Raffaele. Report.

The first four workshops each addressed one of the four targeted research areas. The aims of the workshops are to discuss the ethical and social impacts of development within biotechnology that are heading towards enhancement of human capacities.

Speakers from within science, medicine and technology will be invited to the workshops to present the recent development within research and technology. Likewise, philosophers, ethicists and social scientists will be presenting the ethical and social issues of these emerging technologies.

The responses from the participants will be outlined in a workshop report.