Casting light on the progress of science, raising new societal issues and looking at change from the perspective of ethics: such is the mission of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee on Health and Life Sciences – at the very heart of society’s present-day debates. The CCNE always encourages thinking on bioethics by contributing to the debates – never by stealing them.

One of our goals is to get citizens involved in ethical thinking and help them understand the ethical stakes raised by progress in health and life sciences, for instance in biometrics and nanotechnologies.

To stimulate the public debate, the CCNE engages with the public. The Annual Ethics Days, the Regional Ethics Days, the organisation of symposiums  and the Youth Forum are key moments in this dialogue.

The CCNE also maintains an annual partnership with the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris.