Quality of our research

Results of research visitation

The philosophy departments of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, that together form 3TU.Ethics, perform excellent research in the area of philosophy and technology. Their work can even be considered as internationally leading in their area. Philosophy of technology is one of the very few topics in philosophy in which The Netherlands holds a unique and leading position in the world. This is the conclusion of an international review committee of Qanu (Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities), in a report that appeared in 2006. The review committee looked at four criteria: quality, relevance, productivity and viability.

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Research grants received

Members of 3TU.Ethics have received several (prestegious) research grants over the past years. The most important grants are:

From the European Union (FP7 program)

(FP7 projects take place in larger consortia. The amount mentioned is the total amount awarded, of which a part will go to the 3TU.Ethics applicant)

Period, amount (Euro)	Title of project	3TU.Ethics applicant
2009-2011, 834.000	Ethical issues of emerging ICT applications	Jeroen van den Hoven
2009-2011, 531.000	Ethical and regulatory issues raised by synthetic biology	Ibo van de Poel

From NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

Responsible Innovation program

Date: April 2009 (see here for more information)

Title of project	3TU.Ethics applicant(s)
1. Responsible early diagnostics for Alzheimer�s Disease	Marianne Boenink
2. Technology and Human Development: A Capability Approach	Jeroen van den Hoven, Ilse Oosterlaken
3. Persuasive technology and social values	Anthonie Meijers
4. Biosecurity and dual use research	Seumas Miller, Jeroen van den Hoven
5. Moral fitness of military personnel in a networked operational environment	Lamber Royakkers
6. Responsible innovation in food technology: deliberating hard and soft impacts	Tsjalling Swierstra
7. Telecare at home: Anticipating conflicting norms in telemonitoring technologies for chronic patients	Peter-Paul Verbeek

Other NWO grants

Period, amount (Euro)	Title of project	Main 3TU.Ethics applicant
2004-2006, 153.000	Ethical aspects of the risks involved in the transition from lab-scale model to full-size open plant in bioprocess technology	Ibo van de Poel
2004-2007, 81.000	Medical Images in the Health Care Process	Jeroen van den Hoven
2004-2008, 135.000	Technology and the Matter of Morality	Peter-Paul Verbeek
2005-2006, 78.000	Developing scenarios of moral controversies concerning new biomedical technologies	Tsjalling Swierstra
2005-2009, 135.000	Emotions and Technological Risks: Emotions as a Normative Guide in Judging the Moral Acceptability of Technological Risks	Sabine Roeser
2006-2009, ?	Normative implications of non-invasive, quantitative, acousto-optic registration of chemical substrates in human blood and tissue	Tsjalling Swierstra
2006-2012, 845.000	Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media. Towards an Integrated Philosophy of Human-Media Relations	Philip Brey
2007-2011, 378.000	Neuroethics: ethical, legal and conceptual aspects of neuroscience and neurotechnology	Gert-Jan Lokhorst
2007-2012, 498.000	Moral responsibility in R&D Networks	Ibo van de Poel
2008-2013, 406.000	Technology and the limits of humanity: the ethics and anthropology of posthumanism	Peter-Paul Verbeek