Welcome to the bioethics area at FEWD.at 

Since the founding of the FEWD in the year 2001 is bioethics from an inter-and multidisciplinary approach in the focus of the FEWD research. In the year 2001 the important national Bioethics Commission  at the Austrian Federal Chancellery was established. The task of the Bioethics Commission is to advise the Federal Chancellor from an ethical point of view on all social, natural scientific and legal issues arising from the scientific developments in human medicine and human biology.

Prof. Kampits, the main founder of the FEWD, is also one of the main intellectual father of this Bioethics Commission. There he is since many years as board member and vice-chairperson involved. So the activity of FEWD follows in several ways the same research topics. One of the main contribution of the FEWD.at to this areas is to argue for the plausibility of arguments from modern and classic (secular) humanistic approaches. Also, since beginning Prof. M. Wuketits supported this approach in various ways.  Please visit also our restarting FEWD bioethics project.

After more than thirty years of academic engagement in bioethics the FEWD is planning to establish the

EHBRA - European Humanistic Bioethics Research Award

See also:

"Bioethics in CEE with special focus on the Balkans.” See https://fewd.univie.ac.at/bioethics/CEE/balkans/

Special thanks for providing very useful CEE related research information goes to CEEOL.

 (Last year our old FEWD homepage and backup was hacked. Therefore, we have to rebuild most of the information)