Conference: Advanced Bioethics Institute, Lisbon, Portugal 2003 and 2004, England 2005

生物伦理学研究所是一个教师发展研讨会，旨在帮助参与者学习理论和应用伦理学以及有效的课堂讨论策略。在过去的十年里，它培养了500多名生命科学教师。2000年，在欧盟和FLAD（一个葡萄牙私人基金会）以及NSF的资助下，生物伦理研究所成为一个跨大西洋项目，在里斯本举行了三次美国/欧盟联合研讨会（2000年、2001年和2002年夏季）。该项目现在正在响应欧洲的请求，帮助用英语以外的语言接触理科学生，并为无法进入欧洲大学校园的学生提供在线服务。这个高级研究所将1)为参与者提供道德哲学教育；2)丰富参与者的课堂和研究，包括美国参与者的课堂和研究，具有多元化的国际视野；3)协助参与者翻译研究所的文本“生命科学伦理”，4)准备参与者教授研究所的在线课程“生命科学伦理”。为了实现这些目标，21名与会者将在葡萄牙里斯本每年举行一次葡美发展基金会会议，为期三年。在那里他们将讨论伦理理论；检讨伦理教育学的最新发展；审查他们编写的研训所案文的译文草稿；准备在线课程。研究所教材《生命科学伦理》的“翻译”不一定是直接的翻译，可能是对英文教材的修改，以适应学生的特殊兴趣和需要。将选择三种欧洲语言，并邀请组成工作组。每组将由七人组成。例如，如果葡萄牙语是其中一种语言，那么该团队可能由两名来自葡萄牙和一名来自美国的生命科学家、一名来自葡萄牙和一名来自美国的伦理学家、一名专业从事英语/葡萄牙语翻译的教员（来自美国或葡萄牙）和一名翻译的研究生组成。该团队将负责“生命科学伦理”的葡萄牙语翻译，并提供至少一个基于文本的在线课程部分。

The Bioethics Institute is a faculty development workshop designed to assist participants in learning theoretical and applied ethics and effective classroom strategies for discussing them. It has educated over 500 life science faculty during the last decade. In 2000, with funding from the European Union and FLAD (a private Portuguese foundation) as well as NSF, the Bioethics Institute became a trans-Atlantic project as three joint US/EU workshops were held in Lisbon (summers of 2000, '01, and '02). The project is now responding to Europe's request for assistance in reaching science students in languages other than English and on line for students unable to access Europe's university campuses. This advanced institute will 1) Provide participants with education in moral philosophy; 2) Enrich participants' classrooms and research, including US participants' classrooms and research, with diverse international perspectives; 3) Assist participants in translating the Institute's text, "Life Science Ethics," and 4) Prepare participants to teach the Institute's on-line course, "Life Science Ethics." To attain these goals, twenty-one participants will gather annually at FLAD (the Foundation for Luso-American Development) in Lisbon, Portugal for three years. There they will discuss ethical theory; review the latest developments in ethics pedagogy; review drafts of translations of the Institute's text they have produced; and prepare on-line courses. The "translations" of the Institute's text, "Life Science Ethics," need not be straightforward translations, and may be modifications of the English text to suit students' particular interests and needs.Three European languages will be selected, and working groups will be formed by invitation. Each group will consist of seven people. For example, if Portuguese is one of the languages, that team might consist of two life scientists from Portugal and one from the US, one ethicist from Portugal and one from the US, a faculty member whose specialty is English/Portuguese translation (either from the US or Portugal), and one of the translator's graduate students. The team will be responsible for the Portuguese translation of "Life Science Ethics" and for offering at least one section of an online course based on the text.