1. since 1997 every semester: 
   Ethics and misconduct in biomedicine, seminar for PhD students at the Medical University of Innsbruck 
   
2. winter term 2008/09: Bioethics in Medicine, seminar for medical students
   Four topics (transplantation, brain & consciousness, prenatal diagnostics and the case of “wrongful birth”, end of life decisions) were discussed from clinical, bioethical, philosophical, legal or theological perspectives by experts from these different disciplines (11 lecturers either from academic institutions in Innsbruck but also from Salzburg, Göttingen and Lausanne). After a short introductory lecture, the topics were discussed with the students along their comments and questions. For each topic, one block of 4 teaching units of 45 min was reserved. The number of participants was limited to 30. Students received relevant reading material in advance. Due to its success, this format of seminar will be continued in the future.
   
3. since 2008:
   (1)    a lecture series (3 semesters, 30 units of 45 min per semester) based on the UNESCO bioethics core curriculum was introduced in the frame of the International Health Care Management Master Programme at the Management Center Innsbruck. Lecturers have different backgrounds (philosophy, theology, economy, political sciences, sociology, biology etc.). The course is open to students from the Medical University of Innsbruck and from the University of Innsbruck and, of course, for the students of the Management Center who have different educational and cultural backgrounds. 
   (2)    A course termed “competence folder for bioethics” was introduced an the University of Innsbruck and is open also for students from the Medical University. Competence folder is a seminar/course format offering advanced training in a special field (4 modules, 30 ECTS credits) for students from all disciplines. Besides the advanced training this gives the chance to get in touch with the cultures and ways of thinking in other fields. Courses on “Optimized Humans”, on “Psychological concepts of bioethical reflexion” and on “Bioethics and end of life issues” are offered.
   
4. winter term 2006/07 and 2007/08:
   Two seminars bringing together students of philosophy and of medicine as well as lecturers from various disciplines were organized. One was held in Rome on the topic “Beginning of Person”, the other one took place in Goldrain (South Tyrol, Italy) on the topic “The Optimized Human”. Both seminars were very successful in terms of discussion, reflections and exchange of thoughts and methods from various disciplines. Similar activities are planned for the future.

1. Genomics and individual, an interdisciplinary investigation of attitudes towards modern medical technology and self-understanding
   
2. The value of life, an interdisciplinary inverstigation of attitudes towards assisted reproductive technologies
   
3. Stem cells and the promise of biomedicine 

1. 12th Grazer Konferenz, Austrian Society for Higher Education Didactics, September 2008, Graz: Panel discussion “Bioethics in the medical curriculum” (http://graz-conference.oeghd.at/)
    
2. 13th Grazer Konferenz, Austrian Society for Higher Education Didactics, September 2009, Innsbruck: Session on bioethics in the medical curriculum; speaker: Prof. Alexandre Mauron, University of Geneva 
   (http://graz-conference.oeghd.at/)
    
3. A bioethics session is organized by our unit at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Pediatric Cardiology in Innsbruck in May, 2010 (http://www.aepc2010.at/)

In addition, regular participation at the Conferences organized by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa) since 2006

1.  Living liver donation - the right to refuse (case report). Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, Manuel Maglione, Gerald Brandacher, in: Silke Schicktanz, Claudia Wiesemann, Sabine Wöhlke (eds) "Ethics in transplantation medicine - case-vignettes and movies for teaching bioethics" ; in cooperation with Amnon Carmi UNESCO chair in Bioethics, Goettingen University Press, 2010

2. Rethinking the meaning of being a scientist – the role of scientific integrity boards and some thoughts about scientific culture. Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, in: Medicine and Law, in press
    
3. The April issue of IJHPR :

Ÿ    An integrative article by Carmel Shalev and Gabriele Werner-Felmayer that compares how the procurement and use of human egg cells is regulated in two countries: Israel and Austria. This comparison is particularly informative because Israel is known for its liberal regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART), while Austria lies at the other extreme of the regulatory spectrum.

More publications are found under http://www.i-med.ac.at/ethucation/index.html.en

In order to follow the main goal, i.e. improving the awareness for bioethical issues in the curricula of the Medical University of Innsbruck and in line with international developments, a number of activities targeting students but also the university’s faculty have been initiated and will be further developed in the near future:

1. The formation of a working group of those who are involved in curricula development could be successfully initiated by the unit. Following a survey among our faculty to find out who is touching bioethical considerations in the frame of the medical curriculum, we received substantial feedback. By comparing the educational objectives of the current curriculum with that being effectual for Suisse Medical Universities as well as by integrating objectives from the UNESCO bioethics core curriculum, the group will further develop the curricula for medicine, for molecular medicine as well as the PhD programmes. The aim is to introduce bioethics topics and discussions in the regular curricula wherever possible and where being a straightforward issue in order to avoid that bioethics is reserved only to those who are particularly interested. 
2. A working group “bioethics” was found together with the Department of Teaching and Study Affairs of the Medical University of Innsbruck. The medical curriculum will be reorganized in a way that bioethics is introduced at different stages where its relevance is easily understandable. The goal is to increase reflection and awareness within the medical curriculum. In collaboration with the Department of Study Affairs, our unit is developing an in-house bioethics training programme for our faculty. This will become mandatory for obtaining the Habilitation, a postdoctoral lecture qualification that is essential for a university career in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and some Eastern European countries.
    
3. On April 14, 2010, our unit is holding a workshop on experiences with teaching bioethics in a medical university and favouring interdisciplinarity. The aim is to connect those being involved and to develop a strategy for improving the quality of our curricula and of the academic enterprise itself. Since role models play an important role in educating students, it is essential that those who serve as role models improve their awareness about bioethics and scientific integrity. The programme of the workshop is enclosed (in German). The workshop will be the first of a series of similar events
   (http://www.i-med.ac.at/lehre/lehre/Veranstaltungseinladung_Bioethik_Lehre.pdf)
    
4. Together with the association for science and responsibility (Wissenschaft und Verantwortlichkeit WuV), our unit is organizing a series of lectures plus panel discussion about bioethics topics in the context of modern medicine and society. Topics are brain research & the idea of man, egg cell donation and the trade of egg cells, the idea of enhancing human nature by genetics and neurobiology and its effect on the concept of individual, and limits of reasonability in the field of neonatology. These lectures are for a broad interested public and freely accessible. At the first event held on March 24, an audience of about 90 people participated. The next lectures will be held in April, May and June. The programme is enclosed (most lectures are in German).
   (http://www.i-med.ac.at/events/programs/WuV_Bioethik_ Schwerpunkt.pdf)
   
5. An extracurricular postgraduate university course in bioethics is currently developed. Experiences we collected so far with interdisciplinary and inter-institutional lectures and seminars (see former reports) are a valuable basis for this goal.
   
6. In the frame of the “Grazer Konferenz”, held by the Austrian Society for Higher Education Didactics in September 2009, a session dedicated on introducing bioethics to the medical curriculum was organized by our unit. Plenary speaker was Prof. A. Mauron, Univeristy of Geneva, who reported on the experience of introducing a bioethics module in the medical curriculum in Geneva. 
    
7. Symposium „Integrated Care“, organized by the Management Center Innsbruck, February 2010 (http://www.mci.edu/events-aktivitaeten/nonprofit-sozial-gesundheitsmanagement/integrated-care-das-ideale-system)
    
8. Real life simulation for students of the Management Center Innsbruck on “Cross-Border Health Care” for redesigning and redefining Health Care, a new cross border health care system for the European Region Tyrol, South Tyrol & Trentino. Summer term 2010. (http://www.mci.edu/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/presse-2010/real-life-simulation-in-bruessel-fuer-mci-masterstudenten) 
   
9. Research projects regarding (1) human enhancement and the concept of individual and (2) reproductive medicine and the creation of a new market are in the process of preparation and/or evaluation.