Amsterdam meeting and training week – 15th to 19th September 2025

Venue: Room HG-01E24, VU Amsterdam

For Melomanes participants only

Speakers

Frank Kupper, Mens in de Maak

Theatre company Mens in de Maak

Schedule

Monday 15 September 2025

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee
• 9:00 – 12:00 First part of the workshop
• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
• 13:30 – 17:00 Second part of the workshop (Coffee break at 15:00)

For Melomanes participants only

Venue: VU Amsterdam

Schedule

Tuesday 16 September

Room HG-01E24 (Main building)

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee
• 9:00 – 9:15 Introduction, Cécilia Ménard-Moyon and Jacqueline Broerse (director of Athena Institute)
• 9:15 – 10:00 Progress of the project, Cécilia Ménard-Moyon and Marion Roullet
• 10:00 – 10:30 15min presentation on progress, Chiara Puccinelli
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00 – 11:30 15min presentation on progress, Lorenzo Riccio
• 11:30 – 12:00 15min presentation on progress, Erica Frostegård
• 12:00 – 12:30 15min presentation on progress, Amalie Leinebø
• 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
• 14:00 – 14:30 15min presentation on progress, Daniel Rieger
• 14:30 – 15:00 15min presentation on progress, Shayamita Ghosh
• 15:00 – 15:30 15min presentation on progress, Maria Antoniou
• 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
• 16:00 – 16:30 15min presentation on progress, Wilder Ruiz
• 16:30 – 17:00 15min presentation on progress, Jacopo Sorani
• 17:00 – 18:00 Career chat
• 20:00 Consortium dinner, De Veranda Amsterdam, Amstelveenseweg 764

Wednesday 17 September

Different rooms in the New University building

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee – room NU-5A47
• 9:00 – 9:30 15min presentation on progress, Tatiana Bobrova
• 9:30 – 10:00 15min presentation on progress, Thibault Leray
• 10:00 – 10:30 15min presentation on progress, Ayush Shukla
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00 – 12:00 Break out discussion in 3 groups: WP1 (room NU-5A59), WP2&5 (room NU-5A65) and WP3&4 (room NU-5A47)
• 12:00 – 13:00 Restitution, general discussion on strategy and conclusion
• 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break – move to room NU-5A57
• 14:30 – 18:00 Scenario Exploration System, Laurent Bontoux, Senior Foresight for Policy Expert, Joint Research Centre, European Commission and Ayush Shukla (coffee break at 16:00), rooms NU-5A57, NU-5A59, and NU-5A65
• 20:00 – 22:00 Social activity, Bowling & Burger at Aloha, De Ruijterkade 151, Amsterdam

For Melomanes participants only

Venue:  Main building, VU Amsterdam

Rooms: 

Tuesday 18 September: Room HG-1D12 (Forum 4), and Breakout room HG-1D22 (Forum 5)

Friday 19 September morning: Room HG-01B14

• Ineke MALSCH, Owner and Consultant, Malsch TechnoValuation / EthicSchool, Utrecht, Netherlands

For the session on SSbD:

• Ayush SHUKLA, Melomanes doctoral researcher, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Maria ANTONIOU, Melomanes doctoral researcher, NovaMechanics, Cyprus
• Wilder RUIZ, Melomanes doctoral researcher, Misvik Biology, Turku, Finland
• Jacopo SORANI, Melomanes doctoral researcher, Technology & Society Laboratory, Empa, St Gallen, Switzerland

Schedule

Thursday 18 September 2025

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee
• 9:00 – 9:10 Introduction to Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation, Ineke Malsch
• 9:10 – 10:00 Open stage on Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation
• 10:00 – 10:45 Ethical impact assessment of nanomedicine, Ineke Malsch
• 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00 – 12:00 Group work on risk-benefit assessment of the dreamed outcome of Melomanes
• 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
• 13:00 – 13:40 Advise on Safe and Sustainable by Design melanoma cancer therapy, Maria Antoniou, Wilder Ruiz, Jacopo Sorani and Ayush Shukla
• 13:40 – 14:30 Group discussion on the role of safety and sustainability in own research, and role of values in Melomanes
• 14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
• 15:00 – 15:45 Incorporating ethics and social science in SSbD melanoma cancer therapy, Ineke Malsch
• 15:45 – 17:00 World café about dreamed SSbD melanoma cancer therapy
• 17:00 – 18:00 Work on Melomanes Instagram page

Friday 19 September 2025

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee
• 9:00 – 9:45 Roundtable evaluating new insights from the Ethics and RRI workshop
• 9:45 – 10:15 Presentation on voluntary codes of conduct and introduction of the day activity, Ineke Malsch
• 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
• 10:30 – 11:30 Group work on the core value for Melomanes Amsterdam video pledge
• 11:30 – 12:00 Plenary presentation of the 12 videos

Recommended reading

These papers include useful background information allowing everyone to incorporate the lessons in their own research:

• Neele Puhlmann, Elisabetta Abbate, Klaus Kümmerer, Agnes G. Oomen, Ad M.J. Ragas, Caroline Moermond (2025) Applicability of the European Commission’s framework on safe and sustainable by design to the pharmaceutical sector. In Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy Volume 42, December 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2024.101845
• World Economic Forum – Code of Ethics for Researchers (2017): https://widgets.weforum.org/coe/index.html

Other selected references

• COMEST (2005) The precautionary principle. UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001395/139578e.pdf
  Caldeira, C., Farcal, L. R., Garmendia Aguirre, I., Mancini, L., Tosches, D. et al., Safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials – Framework for the definition of criteria and evaluation procedure for chemicals and materials, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/487955
• MALSCH I, Isigonis P, Bouman E et al. Testing ethical impact assessment for nano risk governance [version 3; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2024, 3:170 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16194.3)
• Malsch I, Ethics of Nanomedicine, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 145, pp 311-325, 2023 https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902370-12
• Stilgoe, J, Owen R, Macnaghten P. (2013). Developing a framework for responsible innovation. Research Policy 42, 1568-1580. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2013.05.008
• UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Venue: Room HG-09A16, Main building, VU Amsterdam

Open to external participants, Free registration

Speakers

• Joan SAPIN-URIBE, Customer Success Manager, Elsevier
• Darren SUGRUE, Publishing Ethics Expert, Elsevier
• Ilaria CARNEVALE, Lead Editor for Trends in Cell Biology, Cell Press

Schedule

Friday 19 September afternoon

• 13:30 – 14:30 How can you find a good journal ? Theory and practice, Joan Sapin-Uribe
• 14:30 – 15:30 Surviving the editorial process and getting published, Ilaria Carnevale
• 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
• 16:00- 17:00 Ethics in academic publishing: common misconducts and how to spot them, Darren Sugrue

The events will take place at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in the South of the city.

Accommodation in Amsterdam

These hotels are recommended as they are in the same area than Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Ibis Budget Amsterdam City South Hotel
• Aparthotel Adagio Amsterdam City South
• Casa 400 Hotel

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