Centre for Applied EthicsAbout the centre

sobre el centro

Somos un centro académico que investiga, forma y transfiere conocimiento en el campo de las éticas aplicadas. Nuestra misión es ayudar a personas y organizaciones a detectar, entender y abordar los desafíos éticos que afrontan en una sociedad en constante cambio.

El Centro de Ética Aplicada (CEA) investiga, forma y transfiere conocimiento en seis áreas:

Ética de las Organizaciones
Ética Pública
Conflictos y Paz
Desarrollo Sostenible
Ética y tecnología
Ética y desarrollo

La creciente complejidad que conllevan fenómenos como la globalización hacen cada vez más necesario disponer de referencias éticas para navegar por contextos de diversidad social y cultural.

Por eso en el CEA, más allá de analizar el comportamiento individual, nos centramos en el estudio de formas de organización, políticas, normas, e ideas que determinan el impacto que distintos tipo de organizaciones tienen en la sociedad.

Contacto

Centro de Ética Aplicada

Dirección:
Avda. de las Universidades, 24. 48007 - Bilbao

Contacto:
944 139 225
etica@deusto.es

Ética por áreas

Business ethics

Public Ethics

Conflict and Peace

Ethics and development

Ethics and technology

Professional ethics

Centre for Applied Ethics

What we do

Research

We rely on the research potential of an interdisciplinary team that combines philosophical reflection with social research. Our researchers come from disciplines as diverse as philosophy, pedagogy, sociology, economics and engineering.

Collaboration

We take a practical approach. We work collaboratively with non-academic organisations such as companies, NGOs or public administrations in exploring contemporary ethical challenges. We do this through sustained structures to embody the co-creation of shared knowledge.

Facilitation

The centre's transfer area aims to respond to the needs of public and private organisations in its four specialist areas. We do this through training and consultancy services.

Education

We have coordinated the subject 'Civic and Professional Ethics' in all undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Deusto for the past 25 years. More than 1,000 students study this subject each year. This experience extends to the training of professionals with the Expert Diploma in Ethical Organisational Management (100% online).

Academic rigour and social commitment

We bring together the valuable aspects of the various theories and schools of ethics, with the rigour and academic excellence that is a hallmark of the University of Deusto. We always have a vision of social transformation that focuses on the perspective of people who suffer violence or are socially and politically excluded.

Centre for Applied Ethics

History

The CAE has its origins in the "Aula de Ética Social" which began at the University of Deusto at the beginning of the 1993/94 academic year. Its aim was todevelop the UD’s University Project with regard to the promotion of the values underpinning human dignity. In the 1996/97 academic year, Xabier Etxeberría took over the management of the school and remained in the post until the end of 2010, when José María Guibert took over until 2013.

In its first stage, the Aula de Ética focused on promoting the compulsory presence of a professional ethics subject in all the University’s undergraduate degrees, as well as on the training of academic staff to ensure that this subject was adequately taught.

In the 1995-96 academic year, the Aula de Ética launched a collection of "Cuadernos de Ética" published by the University's own publishing house, with the aim of disseminating and publicising research results.

From the beginning, the Aula joined national and international networks such as UNIJES, AUSJAL, Metanexus, EBEN, FUCE and, through the latter, the European Ethics Network. Partnerships and joint initiatives have been particularly intense with Latin American universities through bilateral collaboration agreements with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM - Mexico), the Universidad Católica de Temuco, and the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

In 2008, the University recognised the existence of the ‘Ethics applied to social reality’ team with three main research areas: social and political ethics, organisational ethics, cooperativism, social and solidarity economy. In 2010, the team was recognised by the Basque Government

In December 2009, the Centre for Applied Ethics was created, opening up the possibility for the Centre to design and develop postgraduate programmes.

Theoretical ethical reflection and empirical analysis

Mission

Theoretical ethical reflection and empirical analysis

Mission

The mission of the CAE involves the analysis and promotion of personal and collective practices aimed at promoting social justice, peaceful coexistence, people's dignity and their right to participate fully in social, political and economic life.

We integrate various approaches in our work. We combine reflection on the minimum ethics that persons, social organisations, public institutions and companies should observe, based on the promotion of social policies and practices that contribute to the comprehensive development of people and societies.

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A two-fold dimension: organisational and personal

Values

Social commitment

We engage in issues that raise ethical challenges for social contexts to raise awareness, provide support, and impact or cooperate with other social agents.

Academic excellence

Our contribution to social changes is distinctive for its university nature and the rigour with which we address analysis and its application to social reality.

Team building

We seek engagement with the common good from a deeply rooted group awareness. We perform our mission through cooperation, co-responsibility and the interdisciplinary nature of the task at hand.

Participation

We encourage all the CAE members’ engagement in internal decision-making, clearly defining the levels and scopes in which this participation must take place.