About Me
Dr. Dr.phil. RENE VON SCHOMBERG is a philosopher and a STS specialist. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Guest Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany;
Former Official of the European Commission He holds Ph.D's from the University of Twente (NL) (Science and Technology Studies) and J.W.Goethe University in Frankfurt (Philosophy). He has been a European Union Fellow at George Mason University, USA in 2007 and has been with the European Commission from 1998-2021.
Tag Archives: ethics
Watering Down of Responsible Innovation under Horizon Europe (2028–2034)
A critical reflection on the disappearance of Responsible Research and Innovation as an operational objective in the European Commission’s proposed Horizon Europe framework for 2028–2034. Continue reading
Responsible Research and Innovation-Labs: towards new forms of reflexivity in engineering and innovation practices
How Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles can be built into living labs, reviewing 20 years of living-lab practice and new forms of reflexivity and co-responsibility in engineering and innovation. Continue reading
NASA Report on Social and Ethical Considerations of Artemis (Moon to Mars Mission)
I was privileged to join a multi-stakeholder and expert workshop on this subject matter at NASA headquarters. The full report of the event can be downloaded here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:bddef2fb-978d-33c1-a3de-c3208604b4e7 We should not leave space only to engineers and geopolitics!
Raising the Sail of Innovation. Philosophical Explorations on Responsible Innovation
The reality of today’s global challenges has paved the way for Responsible Innovation (RI), which aims to steer innovation processes towards societally desirable outcomes. Under the sway of ‘science with and for society’, the hypothesis is that innovation can only … Continue reading
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Call for papers “Research Ethics: setting up frameworks to promote good practices
We are launching a new call for papers for the October 2022 (27.2) issue about “Research Ethics: Frameworks for promoting best research practices”. Edited by Elsa González-Esteban (Universitat Jaume I), René Von Schomberg (European Comission/Technical University of Darmstadt) & Rosana … Continue reading
International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. A Global Resource
International Handbook on Responsible Innovation A Global Resource – available at: Also as affordable e-book at Google play(+/_ 35 Euro)and can be found here: The introduction of the handbook is in open access and can be downloaded at the publisher’s … Continue reading
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Cyberwarfare: can we have a public discussion on this?
Cyberwarfare Emerges From Shadows for Public Discussion by U.S. Officials By SCOTT SHANE Published: September 26, 2012 in the New York Times WASHINGTON — For years, even as the United States carried out sophisticated cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program and … Continue reading
Fourth Annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies
S.NET invites contributions to the Fourth Annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), to be held at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, on October 22-25, 2012. The four-day conference will assemble scholars, … Continue reading
World Commission on the Ethics of scientific knowledge and technology
The World Commission is meeting on 26 and 27 april in Brussels to review its policy recommendations of 2007. Some suggestions so far are: Systematic review of national and regional debates on comparative basis and look for common ground at … Continue reading
Nanotechnology and public debate
I joined an international colloquium on the topic organized by the university of Brussels.(ULB) 4 April 2011 On the menue Philippe Busquin, former Research commissioner of the European Commission and Goran Hermeren, president of the European Group of Ethics (2002-2011), … Continue reading
