Workshop on human rights and neurotechnologies

 18 November 2025 Strasbourg, France

 

 Programme

Introduction

9:00 - 10:00

Moderators: 

  • Roberto Andorno, Associate Professor of biomedical law and bioethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Anne Forus, Chair of Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) neurotechnologies group

Panellists:

  • Luuk Ex, Senior researcher at the Rathenau Instituut
  • Anna Austin, Jurist Consult of the European Court of Human Rights

Privacy at risk – Neurotech applications accessing the brain and mental states

10:00 - 12:00

Moderator :

  • Mark Bale, member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) neurotechnologies group
  • Damaris Carnal, Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO)

Panellists:

  • Martina  Malcheva, Senior  Legal  Expert  at  the  Constitutional  Court  of  theRepublic of Bulgaria
  • Marius Emberland, Professor  Public  and  international  law  at  BI  Norwegian Business School
  • Respondent: Armen Harutyunyan, former judge of the ECtHR

Self-determination, freedom of thought and integrity at risk – Neurotech applications altering the brain and mental states

12:00 - 13:00

Moderators:

  • Timo Istace,Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Laura Palazzani, professor of philosophy of law, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

Panellists:

  • Vassilis Tzevelekos, Member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
  • Monika Hermanns, Former Justice German Federal Constitutional Court
  • Federico Montalvo, Professor at Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, Spain
  • Respondent: Paulo Sergio Pinto de Albuquerque, Professor (Catedrático) of the Católica School of Law, Lisbon, former ECtHR judge, Portugal

Lunch break (13:00 - 14:30)

Self-determination, freedom of thought and integrity at risk – Neurotech applications altering the brain and mental states

14:30 - 16:00

Moderators:

  • Timo Istace,Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Laura Palazzani, professor of philosophy of law, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

Panellists:

  • Vassilis Tzevelekos, Member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
  • Monika Hermanns, Former Justice German Federal Constitutional Court
  • Federico Montalvo, Professor at Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, Spain
  • Respondent: Paulo Sergio Pinto de Albuquerque, Professor (Catedrático) of the Católica School of Law, Lisbon, former ECtHR judge, Portugal

Conclusion

16:30 - 18:00

Moderator:

  • Laurence Lwoff, Head of the CoE Health Division
  • Milena Costas, former member of the UN Human Rights Advisory Council

Panellists:

  • Tomáš Doležal, Chair of the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO)
  • Krista Oinonen, Chair of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH)
  • Alessandra Pierucci, Member of the Committee of Convention 108 (T-PD)

 Documents

Report of the rapporteurs Workshop on human rights and neurotechnologies 

Report Analysis of the existing European human rights framework concerning the human rights issues raised by neurotechnologies and their applications | Roberto Andorno

General Briefing of the Workshop on Human rights and neurotechnologies

 

United Nations

UNESCO

OSCE

 Context

This workshop will explore whether and how human rights law in its current form can serve as an effective legal framework to address the challenges arising from the increasing use and development of neurotechnologies.

 Recordings

Morning

Afternoon

 Speakers & Moderators

Speakers and moderators are being confirmed progressively, with updates shared on this webpage as they become available.

Zurück Roberto Andorno

Associate Professor of biomedical law and bioethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Roberto Andorno

Graduation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rosario (Argentina). Doctoral degrees in law from the Universities of Buenos Aires (1991) and Paris-Est Créteil (1994), both on topics related to the ethical and legal aspects of medically assisted reproduction. Adjunct Professor of Civil Law at the University of Buenos Aires (1994-1998). Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Laval University, Quebec, Canada (1999). Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Department of Medical Ethics of the University of Göttingen, Germany (2001-2002) and DAAD-Visiting Professor of Bioethics at the same University (2003).

Postdoc Fellow at the International Centre for Ethics in Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany (2004-2005). Member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (1998-2005). President of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) (2014-2016). Researcher for the EU Project "INTEGRITY" on the teaching of scientific integrity in Europe (2019-2021). Member of the UNESCO Expert Group on the Ethics of Neurotechnology (2024). 'Privatdozent' of biomedical law and bioethics at the Faculty of Law, and Research Associate and Coordinator of the PhD Program Biomedical Ethics and Law (Medical Track) at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine of the University of Zurich.

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