Urgent Researcher position in Namur Belgium for Etica and Egais European projects

engages

Under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon *
( http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html )

A researcher (17 months 100% - M/F)

beginning of october 2010 end 28/02/2012 (total 16 month)

*Research project *

Research lies within the scope of two European projects. Those projects investigate
ethical governance in EU research projects with the goal of providing a framework for
improved governance mechanisms that will address potential ethical issues arising from
new and emerging technologies. Studying current governance arrangements in actual ICT
projects (and in particular in Ambient Intelligence project) will help to produce a
better understanding of the efficiency and limits of current ethics governance. This
will be applied to the relevant ethical issues identified which will lead to a
recommendation of successful governance arrangements that will address ethical issues in
emerging ICTs before or as they arise. The recommendations for individual issues will be
used to develop general policy recommendations.

The researcher's work will include: Review of ICT ethics governance - Research on ICT
ethics governance in current European projects - Evaluation of effectiveness of current
governance arrangements - Application of suitable governance arrangements to most
relevant issues identified - Evaluation of viability of suggested governance arrangements

*Qualifications*
high level master(or Ph.d. ) from philosophy or social sciences (with a good
knowledge concerning ethics) with a strong interest in the problems involved in social
integration, ethics and the governorship of new technologies.

*Necessary qualities *

· available, open-minded;
· Scientific rigor and motivation for research;
· Efficiency in the work and capacity to understand theoretical developments;
· Perfect knowledge of power point;
· Perfect spoken and written English.
- the ability to work as part of a team
- the ability to produce written material of publishable standard

*Environment of research *
- Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/)
- Computer sciences department (http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/inf )
- an international network of 15 European labs expert in the field

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Procedure of recruitment *
CV
Interview (tel)and skype video
Test

CV and accompanying letter of motivation to be sent *before 10 spetember(but the sooner
is better), 2010 _by mail, post or fax_* to

Professor Philippe Goujon
rue Grandgagnage, 21
5000 - Namur , Belgium
E-mail : pgo AT info.fundp.ac.be

Phone (Cellular) : +32 497 03 50 12
Fax : +32 81 72 49 67