THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ETHICS CULTURE

The EEN is committed to nurturing a sense of ethical leadership and responsibility in Europe and shares that task with individuals, institutions and professional organisations. The Network is endorsed by more than 100 universities, engineering schools and institutes of higher learning from all member states of the European Union. It promotes cooperation between ethics organisations within Europe such as the European Business Ethics Network, the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics, the Societas Ethica, the European Engineering Ethics Network. Since its foundation in 1996, the EEN, being endorsed and subsidized as a thematic network, cooperates with the European Commission and its many associated social and ethical organisations.
The truly European dimension of the network is also expressed in the composition of the board of directors who are all elected members and representatives of the key European ethics associations and institutions.

AN INTERACTIVE FORUM FOR SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Contemporary ethics is constantly threatened by the danger of 'hyperspecialisation' which tends to disassociate new pratical porblems from fundamental concerns about human action and the dignity of the human person.

In its projects, the EEN interweaves fundamental and applied ethics in a transdisciplinary educational framework of cooperation between the worlds of academia and the professions. The Network seeks to develop academic and research excellence by promoting dialogue and interactive programmes. Its pedagogical style is broad in perspective, wide-ranging and indepth, less concerned with prescribing rules and procedures than with the imaginative pursuit of shaping a sensible life for individuals, institutions and society as a whole. This 'holistic' approach takes account of the individual and social context of the person and the humanum which is the ultimate source of meaning of all scientific and technological progress.