Ethics is practiced in hospitals. But ethics is also practiced in care and support facilities for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as in pharmaceutical companies, research centers, and universities.

We “practice ethics” in groups whose scope may be local, regional, national, continental, or international. We “practice ethics” by organizing conferences, conventions, meetings, roundtables, workshops, symposia, think tanks, and so on.

But what exactly “do we do” in these settings? Is there really anything in common among all these groups, these settings, these collectives? 

It is not desirable to strive for a single model that would ignore the specific characteristics of the environments in which this activity takes place.

But it is interesting and undoubtedly necessary to seek to better understand and define what each group does in this regard.

What's on

9:00 a.m. Introduction

9:30 a.m. Sharing of experiences

  • Darius Makindu - Kinshasa School of Public Health (DRC)
  • Yannick Courtin, Jérôme Bouvy, Laurence Gillard - GHdC Team
  • Herimampita Rarivomanantsoa - University of Antananarivo (Madagascar)
  • Nicky Sacré, Véronique Weber - La Maison Sainte-Joséphine (MR-MRS) in Theux and Résidence Bon-Air (MR-MRS) in Petit-Rechain
  • Alain Loute - UCLouvain, ELMAC research group on “places of connection” in mental health

11:00 AM Break

11:30 a.m. Discussion of the presentations

12:30 PM Lunch

1:15 PM Theatrical interlude: Compagnie Nicomaque

2:00 PM Sharing of experiences

  • Marius Kedoté - Regional Institute of Public Health, Benin
  • Bruno Krug, Étienne Gourdin, Marie-Laure Cornet - Team from the UCL Namur Godinne University Hospital
  • Patrick Robert, Tonino D’Arcangelo - La Galice (non-profit organization)
  • Sami Richa - Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Christian Byk - UNESCO, Paris

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM Discussion of the presentations

5:00 PM Conclusions of the day

5:30 PM End of the day

In practice

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Organizing Committee

  • Catherine Bert (UNamur, Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society; Director of the Health Division at the Léonard de Vinci University College)
  • Charlotte Costenoble (UNamur, Assistant, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society, Faculty of Sciences)
  • Vincent Darche (UNamur, Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society; Surgeon, CHRSM Meuse Campus)
  • Albert Fox (UNamur, Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society)
  • Geneviève Guillaume (UNamur, Researcher, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society)
  • Bruno Krug (UCLouvain, Clinical Professor, Chief of Clinic, Nuclear Medicine, CHU UCL Namur, Godinne Site)
  • Sébastien Loix (UNamur, Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society; Intensive Care Physician, HELORA Jolimont)
  • Alain Loute (UCLouvain, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Health and Society Research, Higher Institute of Philosophy)
  • Darius Makindu (UNIKIN, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Kinshasa, DRC)
  • César Meuris (ULB, Associate Professor; Robert Schuman University College, Director of the Ressort Center)
  • Véronique Orose (UNamur, Secretary, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society, ESPHIN Institute, Faculty of Sciences)
  • Laurent Ravez (UNamur, Full Professor, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society)
  • Sami Richa (Saint Joseph University, Professor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Beirut, Lebanon)
  • Claire Rommelaere (UNamur, Researcher, Center for Bioethics, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Sciences, Philosophy, and Society)