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Kick-off meeting agenda

Saturday, November 26th 2005

Introduction

09:00

09:15

Guglielmo Tamburrini

•  Welcome and presentation of the agenda

•  Project summary:

•  Objectives (Towards a Roadmap for Techno-Ethical Research)

•  WPs, and timeline

09:15

09:45

David Coles

Related EU projects

Consortium

Short presentation of each partner. Each partner should present their work on techno-ethical issues or their technological activities which give rise to techno-ethical issues.

09:45

10:00

Guglielmo Tamburrini
DSF

10:00

10:15

Thomas Christaller
FhG/AIS

10:15

10:30

Fiorella Operto
SdR

10:30

10:45

Giovanni Ventimiglia
IsFA

10:45

11:00

Kevin Warwick
UNIRDG

11:00

11:15

Coffee break

11:15

11:30

Rafael Capurro
HdM

11:30

11:45

Cecilia Laschi
SSSA

11:45

12:00

Edoardo Datteri
UNIPI

12:00

12:15

Satinder Gill
MU

Active Workpackages

WP1 - Project coordination and management

12:15

12:45

Guglielmo Tamburrini

  • Structure of project management: boards, activities, participants
  • Composition and role of the Coordination Unit; timeline of internal meetings for checking if the project is on schedule.
  • Composition and role of the Quality Assurance Board
  • Presentation of templates for deliverables and reports
  • Financial management

12:45

13:00

Discussion

13:00

14:00

Lunch

WP2 - Joint analysis of the state of the art in emerging technologies for the integration of human beings and artificial entities

14:00

14:30

Thomas Christaller

  • Objectives and description of sub-tasks
  • Contents of the 3 tutorials on technological states of the art
  • Identification of persons in charge for each sub-task
  • Timeline for the first 6 months (dates for reports to be merged into the first deliverable, due at month 7, and dates for internal meetings)

14:30

14:45

Discussion

WP5 – Dissemination

14:45

15:15

Fiorella Operto

  • Objectives and timeline
  • Description of work: how to achieve WP5 objectives, description of sub-tasks, identification of persons in charge for each sub-task.
  • Setting up of the Plan for Using and Disseminating Knowledge

15:15

15:30

Discussion

Forthcoming ETHICBOTS activities

15:30

16:50

Initial discussion about WP3 activities, to be started at month 6:

  • Towards a methodology for techno-ethical issues identification
  • Initial list of techno-ethical issues

Talks (10'):

  • Sergio Bartolommei (bioethics and techno-ethics)
  • Thomas Christaller (edutainment robotics)
  • Satinder Gill (computer-human interaction)
  • Cecilia Laschi (biomedical robotics)
  • Guglielmo Tamburrini
  • Giovanni Ventimiglia (virtuality)
  • Gianmarco Veruggio (Roboethics)
  • Kevin Warwick (bionics)

16:50

17:20

Discussion

17:20

17:40

Coffee break

17:40

18:00

Internal meeting: organization of the Internet-based information system

Coordinator: Gianmarco Veruggio
Structure, contents, implementation.

18:00

18:20

Initial discussion about WP4:

•  Charting international and national techno-ethical regulations

•  Opinion generation for EU and national techno-ethical regulation

Talks (10'):

18:20

18:40

Discussion

18:40

18:50

Guglielmo Tamburrini
Preparation of the first workshop:

  • Objectives and organization
  • Venue
  • Talks
  • Internal meetings to be held at the workshop

18:50

19:30

Discussion