Right to health, ethics and technology: CRID international cooperation agreement with the Universities of Coimbra and Seville
On Friday 31 January, at the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Coimbra - FDUC, an important cooperation agreement was signed between the CRID - Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability of Unimore, the Biomedical Law Centre of the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Coimbra and the Facultad de Derecho of the Universidad de Sevilla.
The signing of the agreement was preceded by a discussion on “Ethics and the Right to Health: the Challenges of New Technologies in Southern Europe”, which saw the attendance of Prof. Thomas Casadei, Director of Unimore's CRID, currently Visiting Professor at the University of Seville, Prof. André Gonçalo Dias Pereira (President of the Directorate of the Centre for Biomedical Law; Vice-President of the CNECV - National Ethics Council for the Life Sciences), Prof. Fernando Llano-Alonso (Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Seville; full professor of Philosophy of Law) and Prof. Sandra Passinhas (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, FDUC Professor).
The event, scientifically and organisationally coordinated by Prof. Ana Elisabete Ferreira, marks the beginning of a triple cooperation on a fundamental and indispensable theme for contemporary societies such as the right to health in its relationship with new technologies.
The signed agreement provides for exchanges of professors, researchers, students, the development of annual research programmes, courses, seminars, workshops involving professors from the three institutions, and joint publications.
One of the first joint initiatives is a BIP - Bando Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme dedicated to “Artificial Intelligence and Law”, which, in addition to the three entities that signed the agreement, will also see the collaboration of the Universidad de Alicante and EPS - Escuela Politécnica Superior, KUL - John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
For the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the lectures will be held by Claudia Severi, scientific-organisational coordinator of CRID and scholar of the relationship between technologies and environmental sustainability. The BIP combines periods of virtual activity (Online Sessions) with a short period of physical mobility (Field Visit). In this specific case, the period of face-to-face classes at the University of Coimbra will be from 3 to 7 March 2025, while the distance activities will take place on 24 March, 31 March and 7 April.
"This agreement - explains Prof. Thomas Casadei, Director of the CRID and Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Unimore Department of Law, currently Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Seville - consolidates Unimore's international relations and will allow the development of projects on specific issues of great relevance involving a close interaction between artificial intelligence studies, law and medical knowledge".
"The Bip that is about to start " - continues Prof. Casadei - “will allow our students to work in multinational teams on the main topics related to Artificial Intelligence, exploring its different implications and challenges. The research we will conduct through this agreement will focus on the broad intersections, in the area of the right to health, between law, ethics and society. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the intention is to critically analyse the impact of AI in contemporary and future realities, along with its potential.
"As also emerged during the conversation we have just held with our colleagues from the University of Coimbra and the University of Seville, whom I thank very much for this opportunity, guaranteeing transparency, equity and security in the use of digital technologies in healthcare is not only an ethical necessity, but also an essential condition for building a fair, inclusive healthcare system that respects the dignity of every person, and which effectively safeguards the right to health as a universal human right: I believe this is one of the greatest challenges for us, for Europe, for the whole world' - concludes Prof. Casadei.
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