Indeed, ethics is an essential issue in today's corporate environment. Certain professions have developed ethical codes (doctors, lawyers, journalists), but ethics is a subject that concerns everyone.

Courses in ethics and human sciences in partnership with the Human Sciences Department

In close collaboration with the teachers at INSA Lyon's Human Sciences Centre, 3rd year engineering students in BIM have courses in ethics and human sciences, incorporating the philosophy of sciences and knowledge (taught by Coutellec and Anne-Françoise Schmid), and theatre (Davyd Chaumard) and writing (Marianne Chouteau) workshops. Each year, this partnership results in the organisation of an "Ethics" day. This year it took place on 7 June 2012 and was attended by Marie-Geneviève Pinsart, philosopher and vice-president of the Brussels National Ethics Committee and Jérôme Goffette, senior lecturer in history and the philosophy of technology at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. During the day, the students presented their work on ethics during a round-table. They also presented their written work and put on a theatrical play.

Consult all the students' short stories and essays on the "Passerelles" website

Following this day, the Sciences and Society Department of Lyon University decided to publish the students' 12 short stories and essays on the "Passerelles" website. The website aims to share ideas developed by the students in the 18 facilities in the University of Lyon concerning issues of science and society, ethics and scientific culture..

More information :
• Marianne Chouteau, teacher Human Sciences Centre – marianne.chouteau@insa-lyon.fr
• Hubert Charles, Teacher-Researcher  – hubert.charles@insa-lyon.fr
• Website Biosciences department : http://biosciences.insa-lyon.fr