8.30-9.30.00

Registration of participants, morning coffee;

Visit of the museum of medical history of Belarus

9.30-9.45

Official opening of the seminar

Bohdan Alena L. (Head of Chief Department for the medical assistance of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, Head of the National committee on bioethics of the Republic of Belarus )

Laurence Lwoff (Head of the Bioethics Unit, Secretary to the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe)

  9.45-10.30

Session 1

Moderators: S. D. Denisov, Elmar Doppelfeld 

Bioethics in Belarus: challenges and prospective – Tatsiana V. Mishatkina, Y.S. Yaskevitch (National Committee on bioethics of the Republic of Belarus)

Oviedo Convention as an international reference document in the field of human rights and biomedicine – Laurence Lwoff (Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe)

10.30-11.30

Session 2

Moderators: Tatsiana V. Mishatkina, Laurence Lwoff

Legal instruments of the Council of Europe on biomedical research – Elmar Doppelfeld  (Committee on Bioethics, Council of Europe)

Legal regulation of clinical tests: protection of human rights in the context of biomedical research – S. D. Denisov (National Committee on bioethics of the Republic of Belarus)

Committees on ethics and independent ethical examination of the research projects in the Republic of Belarus. – A. Yu. Stolyarov, S.K. Alimpieva (Centre of expert examinations and tests in the field of health protection)

11.30-12.00

Discussion: “Open” problems of bioethics in XXI century in the context of the Oviedo Convention: discussion on core principles and provisions of the Oviedo Convention and the Additional Protocol to it.

12.00-12.30

Coffee-break

12.30-13.20

Session 3

Moderator: I.B. Mosse, Anna Mikhedenko

Ethical aspects of transplantation of organs and tissues of human origin in the context of the Additional protocol to the Oviedo Convention  – Javier Arias-Diaz (Committee on Bioethics, Council of Europe)

Ethical aspects of transplantation: challenges and achievements in the Republic of Belarus – О.О.Rummo (Centre of transplantation of organs and tissues), A.L. Uss (Centre of hematology and transplantation of bonne marrow)

13.20-13.40

Discussion: Ethical principles and problems of transplantation.

13.40-15.00

Lunch

15.00-15.40

Session 4

Moderators: О.О.Rummo, Elmar Doppelfeld 

Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention, concerning genetic testing for health purposes – Laurence Lwoff (Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe)

Ethical problems of genetic testing for the medical purposes: Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention. – I.B. Mosse (Academy of Science of Belarus)

15.40-16.00

Discussion: Bioethical problems of human genetics: core principles and challenges.

16.00-16.40

Session 5

Moderators: Y.S. Yaskevitch, Javier Arias-Diaz

HELP in bioethics: project of the training course – Anna Mikhedenko (Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe)

Education on bioethics in the Republic of Belarus – Tatsiana V.Mishatkina (National Committee on bioethics of the Republic of Belarus)

16.40-16.50

Discussion: Education in the field of bioethics.

16.50-17.30

     Moderators: Alena L. Bogdan, Tatsiana V. Mishatkina, S. D. Denisov, Laurence Lwoff

Round table relevant ethical issues for Belarus. Identification of subsequent activities

in the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Belarus 2016-2017 

17.30-17.45

Distribution of the certificates to the participants.

Closing