Thursday September 9th 2010
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Activities:
A Sustainable Danish Transport System The Danish Board of Technology’s collection of topics for the year 2010 A Clear Message from World Citizens to COP15 Politicians 4 citizens' meetings debating the future of the healthcaresystem Demand Driven Technoloical Innovation Environmentally friendly building in practice - what are we waiting for? STOA workshop on Food Issues and Human Health Project Description: World Wide Views On Global Warming World Wide Views on Global Warming Privacy and Security Technology (PRISE) STOA project - The future of European long distance transport The Policy Challenges of Electronic Privacy Tomorrow’s Fuels for the Transport Sector: A Danish Perspective How are we going to use the increased knowledge on the human brain? |
EPTA - Genetically modified plants and food
The Danish Board of Technology is currently managing a project on genetically modified plants and food together with other technology assessment institutions in Europe. The project is carried out under the EPTA network (European Parliamentary Technology Assessment). The aim is to provide information on regulatory challenges, points of public debate in the future and approaches to technology assessment fitted to handle these issues. Biotechnology, and especially genetic engineering, is one of the most controversially discussed modern technologies. This technology is seen on one side as an important key to economic competitiveness growth, and on the other hand provokes concerns about health and safety issues and about ecological impacts.The first genetically modified organism was produced in 1973. In the last three decades, great progress was made in modern biotechnologies. Today, they play an important role first of all in medicine and agriculture. Many citizens in the EU are opposed or sceptical about GM food. In the past fifteen years, heated debates about genetically modified plants and food have taken place in many European countries. These debates have common characteristics and specific national developments. Many technology assessment projects in Europe have reviewed and contributed to these debates. They have used different approaches, such as consensus conferences or citizen jury. Based on the these studies, the EPTA project will provide information on · Regulatory challenges for the European system in the next years, · Points of public de-bate in the future, · Approaches for TA to handle the future is-sues. The project will concentrate on new questions and possible new answers, rather than to attempt to simply establish a mainstream view on contested issues in the past from comparing the findings of previous projects in the field. The joint project results will be addressed to policy makers, TA practitioners and the general public. For further information visit the project website from the link below. Last update: 28-08-2008 
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