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Programmes

Initiatives

Our programmes convene the people who have to make ethical infrastructure real — regulators, engineers, clinicians, educators and civil society — around problems none of them can solve alone. Seven categories of work are set out below. Where a programme is still being convened we say so, rather than describing intentions as achievements.

Seven categories of work

Each is a distinct kind of commitment, with its own criteria for what counts as done.

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Working Groups

Standing groups convened around a single governance question, bringing regulators, engineers and affected practitioners into the same drafting process. A working group has a defined question, named participants and a date by which it must produce something. Groups that cannot state all three are not yet working groups.

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02 science

Research Projects

Time-bounded empirical and analytical work producing publications, datasets and methods. We are particularly interested in whether governance mechanisms change outcomes in practice — a question asked far less often than whether they exist on paper.

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Educational Programmes

Curriculum development and teaching material for schools, universities and professional training bodies, aimed at building ethical reasoning into technical education rather than appending it as a final-year module. Our teaching material is released for reuse and adaptation.

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Pilot Initiatives

Small, instrumented trials of a governance mechanism inside a real institution, with agreed measures and a published account of the result — including when the mechanism does not work. A recommendation that has never been tried in an institution is a hypothesis.

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Global Challenges

Open calls inviting researchers, engineers and institutions anywhere to work on a defined problem in parallel, with published methods so results can be compared rather than merely collected. Useful where the problem is shared but the institutional context is not.

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Policy Recommendations

Formal submissions to consultations, legislative committees and standards bodies, drafted to be usable by the people who must implement them. We publish our submissions in full, including where our advice was not taken.

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Strategic Partnerships

Long-term commitments with institutions that embed our review methods into their own processes. Partnership means shared work and mutual obligation — it is not an endorsement in either direction, and we say so publicly.

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Current programmes

Work under way

All initiatives

Every programme is open to participants from outside the institute

A working group drafting a standard that its implementers did not shape produces a document nobody implements. We convene rather than pronounce, which means the programmes above depend on practitioners joining them.

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Join a working group

For regulators, engineers and caseworkers who will have to apply what we draft.

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science

Propose a research collaboration

Co-authored work, shared methods, or peer review of our working drafts.

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biotech

Host a pilot

Test a governance mechanism inside your institution, with the result published either way.

Discuss