The Programme for Applied Ethics (PAE) at NTNU aims to contribute to the development of competence in applied ethics in both research and education. The PAE started in the Autumn of 2001 with support from the Research Council of Norway and has been, since 2004, funded directly by NTNU. PAE is managed by an interfaculty Board, it employs three permanent staff and supports one PhD project and one postdoc project. The director of the Programme is Professor May Thorseth.

The programme's mandate is to:

• Create good arenas for building competence in applied ethics - Ethics Days and other arrangements.
• In particular, contribute to bringing ethical issues related to technology and social responsibility to light.
• Together with researchers at NTNU, initiate research projects based on ethical issues arising from their respective research areas and NTNU strategic areas.
• Contribute to the development of the academic field of applied ethics at NTNU.
• Provide professional support to study programmes that integrate ethics with teaching at different levels.
• Participate in and develop relevant national and international networks.

Program

Thursday 30th March

9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening Ceremony
10:15-11:30 Session 1 (Chair: Mikko Puumala)

• Ivo Wallimann-Helmer: Complex Climate Responsibilities for Justice in Food Security
• May Thorseth & Hilde Bjørkhaug: How can good animal welfare be achieved in a sustainable food system?
• Teea Kortetmäki: Just transition to low-carbon food systems: minimum and negotiable conditions

11:30-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:30 Keynote lecture: Food ethics (Chair: Teea Kortetmäki)

• Per Sandin: Plant Breeding, Nature, and Focal Practices

13:30-14:00 Coffee break
14:00-15:15 Session 2 (Chair: May Thorseth)

• Manuel Hempel: Normative considerations on individual responsibility in the co-production of seasonal forecast for the Norwegian agriculture sector
• Espen Dyrnes Stabell: Normative Uncertainty and Environmental Ethics
• Mikko Puumala: Ordinary Morality and Demandingness of Climate Action

15:30-16:20 Session 3 (Chair: Hilde Bjørkhaug)

• Arwen Meereboer: Haunted houses; material agency and living in ruins
• Anders Melin: Why Should We Protect Urban Biodiversity? A Critical Analysis of Ethical Arguments

16:30-17:30 Networking session (Chair: Mikko Puumala)
19:00 - 21:15 Conference Dinner @ Kalas & Canasta http://www.kalasogcanasta.no/

Friday 31st March

9:15-10:05 Session 4 (Chair: Mikko Puumala)

• Tobias Alexius: The nature and value of nature
• Anna Wienhues: Interspecies Justice in Conservation: Towards a Theory of Burden-Sharing

10:15-11:30 Session 5 (Chair: Teea Kortetmäki)

• Anne Sauka: Build the Fire in the Stream: Baltic Traditional Knowledges for Future Ethicalities
• Hannah Winther: Artifishial: CRISPR-salmon and the naturalness debate
• Simon Meisch: Water Peace – Reconceptualising Water Security

11:30-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:30 Keynote lecture: Water Ethics (Chair: May Thorseth)

• Tetiana Gardashuk: Water as a Value, Weapon, and Victim: The Ukrainian Context

13:30-14:00 Coffee break
14:00-14:50 Session 6 (Chair: Hilde Bjørkhaug)

• Yong Huang: Sentimentalist Environmental Virtue Ethics: A Neo-Confucian Contribution
• Leo Catana: Contemporary Environmental Virtue Ethics and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: A Mismatch?

14:50-15:00 Ending Ceremony

Graham, M., Hallowell, N., Solberg, B., et al (2021) Taking it to the bank: the ethical management of individual findings arising in secondary research. Journal of Medical Ethics Published Online First.

Solberg, B. (2021) Passivt samtykke til passiv deltakelse? Tidssk Nor Legeforeningen.

Stabell, E. D. (2021) Trenger vi mineraler fra havbunnen? Espen Dyrnes Stabell. Pan (Harvest Magazine).

Stabell, E.D. (2021) Hard Environmental Choices: Comparability, Justification and the Argument from Moral Identity. Environmental Values 30 (10): 111-130 

Koksvik, G.H., Richards, N., Gerson, S.M., Materstvedt, L.J. og Clark, D. (2020) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health.