Team:UCopenhagen/Contribution
iGEM ethics guide
Thinking about the ethical implications of your iGEM project can be a daunting task. For this reason, the CIDosis team has made a hands-on step-by-step guide that divides your ethical work into comprehensive parts. This way, every time an iGEM team feels unsure about the ethical implications of their project, they can consult the guide. The guide is the results of thorough research and discussion throughout our project. It includes- • Describing the method of Casuistry. A method for moral reasoning
- • Explaining ethics in an iGEM context
- • Using our framework on two iGEM projects as case studies
The guide is inspired by a collaboration with Synthetics; an iGEM start-up primarily focused on the issues arising at the intersection between ethics and synthetic biology. The guide can be read below or on the SynthEthics website.
Guide to workshop in idea generation
In our education work this year, we have wished to develop mini-versions of iGEM in the form of workshops to inspire high school students. However, we wished to reach more than just biology students, because iGEM is much more than synthetic biology. For us, a core element of iGEM is developing an important idea and being able to pitch it. Without a variety of skills on an iGEM team, synthetic biology solutions will not reach their full potential. We thus developed a workshop we could do with students from mixed backgrounds. The workshop was a success and here we provide a detailed instruction on how to conduct the workshop. We hope this can be an inspiration to teams all over and help spread SynBio to all types of students.In short: In this workshop, the focus is on spreading the awareness of SynBio solutions, while learning how to go from problem to solution and be able to present the concept in a clear and convincing way.