Resumo:
Neste seminário apresentar-se-ão os resultados preliminares de um projecto sobre a avaliação e o desenvolvimento de conferências de consenso enquanto instrumentos deliberativos na avaliação de tecnologias. Foram desenvolvidos estudos de caso sobre conferências de consenso realizadas na Noruega, na França e na Dinamarca, tendo sido explorados os impactos sociais, culturais e políticos resultantes da sua aplicação e interpretação. Sendo um dos objectivos do projecto desenvolver as conferências de consenso como instrumentos participativos, este seminário pretende ser um espaço de debate sobre as experiências, as potencialidades e os limites dos procedimentos de democracia deliberativa e dos procedimentos de democracia participativa nos processos de avaliação de tecnologias. Com a realização deste tipo de eventos os investigadores procuram ainda recolher contributos de investigadores e pessoas interessadas nestes temas em Portugal

Annika Porsborg Nielsen

Research assistant at the Department of Human Nutrition, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Cand. Scient. Anth.
Cand. Scient. Anth., Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (2003)

Research interests

Main interests are participatory and deliberative procedures, political cultures and democratic ideals, conceptions of democracy and the roles of citizens in relation to decision-making, technology and citizenship, lay and expert forms of knowledge.
From August 2005 PhD project on the political construction of the need for public participation in relation to two cases: GM foods and functional foods

Peter Sandøe

Professor of bioethics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), and the director of the Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre.
He is educated at the University of Copenhagen (mag.art. of philosophy 1984) and at Oxford University (D.Phil. 1988). He is chairman of the Danish Ethical Council for Animals. In 2000 he was elected the president of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe).

Research interests

Since 1990 his research has been mainly within bioethics focusing particularly on ethical issues related to agriculture, animals and biotechnology. In recent years his interest in including perspectives of the social sciences in ethical questions has been growing.

Jesper Lassen

Associate professor at the Department of Human Nutrition, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), MSc, PhD
MSc, Department of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, Roskilde University (1988)
PhD in social science (Consumer influence in the food sector) (1996)

Research interests

Main interest is the study of the interface between the society and the food and agricultural sectors. Within this field he is interested in public perceptionsof risks (e.g. gene technology; zoonoses, pesticides etc), but also perceptions of different production systems. Other interests are the political processes within the food area, e.g. the role of NGOs in the bio-political processes and participatory methods.