Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region 3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Session 4. Future Directions - Higher Education and Responsible Science

1. Workshop on
Higher Education and Professional Responsibility
in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology
Across the Sub-Mediterranean Region
Autonomy and Advice:
Preparing young scientists to be
involved in Decision Making
¨Process
Farida KHAMMAR
Sciences and Technology University Houari Boumediene
Algiers,Algeria

2. INTRODUCTION
The deep meaning of a real
development is Human.
It includes both
the economic development and
the essential values of the
equity among humans

3. It happens too often that
Universities , in accomplishing
their duty to transmit the
knowledges, focus exclusively
on science and technology,
overshadowing arguments
linked to citizenship,
international friendship and
humanities

4. The result is that we have
more easily good technicians
and engineers, that basically
fail understanding the topic
of the « learning together
for greater security and
safety culture and
responsible science »

5. In various countries of our
sub mediterranean region we
have to form the human
being to human values and
inhence the educational
goals of the citizenship

6. The development consists of the
capacity of the individuals to
function towards the personnal as
well as the social transformations;
it should orientate the individuals
in order to ameliorate them and
adjust the economic inequalities

7. Questions of debate:
-How can we move towards goods and
citizens?
-What tools we need?
-How to put all scientific knowledge at the
service of human development?
(a development that creates « complete »
human being responsible about themselves,
the others and the environment)
-In which ways young students, researchers
can help to change societies and favour a real
human development?

8. In many countries, the ethical dimension is
either not evident or insufficiently elaborated,
so there is a clear need to give guidance to
applicants especially in CBRN Applied Sciences
and Technology. However, ethical awareness
varies considerably both among different
disciplines and different national contexts. So a
deeper understanding of ethical considerations
should lead the way towards better protecting
the rights and welfare of participants in various
situations. The implementation/application of
the Carthagena Protocol of from the
Biodiversity Convention still needs much help.

9. • In Algeria, since the ratification of the
Protocol, very few debates concerning
information on biotechnology and
biosafety reinforcing capacity building
of social groups have taken place.
• Nevertheless trumps for the
development of biotechnologies,
bioethics and biosafety as human
potential, research institutions,
economic enterprises and transition
towards economic market exist:

10. Development of training in
biotechnologies, bioethics and
biosafety is a reality just as
Information, Communication and
Technologies (ICTs); in fact young
scientists are attracted to these
disciplines because they are oriented
towards possible employment and
retributions by economic enterprises

11. Network of 34 academic institutions
involved in the Training and Research in
areas of life sciences and biotechnology.

12. First program launched in 1991 and
amended in1995 and expanded in 1998
Law No. 08-05 of February 23, 2008
34programmes dedicated research including:
Agriculture
Health
Environment
Biodiversity
Bioethics,
Bio Food Security

13. • 6000 to 8000 graduate students/ year
across different studies: biotechnology,
genomes, molecular genetics,human
genetic, biosecurity and nutrition. These
are important figures of human
potential (young researchers) and many
institutions supported by the National
Fund for Research also promote these
programs.

14. • So, reinforcing capacity building social
groups via young students and
researchers could be a feasible
approach.

15. From the scientific point of view, every
research project has to address ethical
questions; therefore there is a need for
informed professional ethical judgment
on how research should be carried out;
what are the risks and benefits of
individual participation in the research
and how the risks and benefits to
society as a whole are carefully
balanced.

16. • On an other level, teacher
training/formation (particular attention
to university instructors) was tested in
an European research project (19
countries). It was aimed to understand
how biology, health and environmental
education can promote better
citizenship, including their affective and
social dimensions

17. The results expected are that this
understanding may clarify the relevant
challenges that the education systems
have to face to maximize their
efficiency in order to reinforce a
knowledge based society.
Citizenship is rooted in values. So we
have to work on interactions between
scientific knowledge and values.

18. Research in developing countries
represent a very wide and constantly
changing variety of situations. Many of
the ethical issues that are specific to
these countries originate from the
potential vulnerability of local
stakeholders. Ethical acceptability of
the research must be suitable with the
customs and traditions of the society
concerned. So scientists have to explain
how their research is bringing
something extra to the community.

19. ACTION PLAN

20. -Summarize the programs and
activities of different
stakeholders
-Formulate, with the coordinating
bodies of scientific and
technological research, proposals
on the impact of new technologies
in various sectors of research and
economic output.

21. -Identification and analysis of options for carrying
out the terms of the protocol and the results of
studies and surveys, with individuals Es quality,
members of the National Coordinating Committee,
National Committee of Biotechnology, the multi-
sectorial commission to draft the national law on
GMOs, the Scientific Council of the National
Development Agency University Research and
Scientific Council for Health Research, and other
resource persons.

22. -evaluation mechanisms and risk
management with participants from
institutions and structures of control and
monitoring, which could play a role in
the biosafety process

23. - mechanisms of public participation in
biosafety process with focusing on the
knowledge of GMOs, regulatory systems,
administrative management of GMOs,
presenting the project implementation of
national biosafety frameworks and
mechanisms for public participation in the
Biosafety Protocol.

24. The National Committee for Biosafety
and Biotechnology has to publish
guidance on genetic testing, on the
regulatory aspect of the use of gene
therapy products, on experiments in
cell therapy and use of these products
for transplantation on a patient, as well
as opinions and proposals on human
cloning or animal and the development
of biotechnology.

25. it is highly recommended
ongoing communication with
different research
participants with different
understandings and
different cultural contexts.

26. Thank you for your
attention