On 12th and 13th of May, The STEAM Bioethics and Technoethics Debates were held at the 22@ Cybernetics Centre, an initiative organized by Barcelona Activa and the Barcelona Science Park, as part of its programme of research in society RESSÒ, with the collaboration of the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation, that has brought together more than 300 students from 3º and 4º grade of Secondary Education (ESO), Baccalaureate and vocational qualifications to think about the limits, the values and the implications of scientific and technological progress.

The initiative, that seeks to foster a conscious view and give tools for learning to think and wonder about the same values and limits of the human being itself, has developed a didactic proposal together with the Víctor Grífols Foundation. This proposal exposes four challenges about bioethics and tecnoethics in research: “chindren on demand”, nanobots design, transhumanism through organ donation and the use of doping to enhance human performance. The educational centres that assisted to the sessions will continue to deepen in these topics in the classroom.

The four debates have been dynamized by Salvador Macip, doctor, researcher in molecular genetics, well-known science communicator and author of several books, who guided the participants to discover bioethical and technoethical tools, and to understand the relevance of our role as a society to determine which direction we want to take in the light of new scientific and technological discoveries.

The Debates have helped to bring a new perspective and have created a space for discussion to understand the scope of the different challenges that we are facing and the importance of the tools that bioethics and tecnoethics provide us with.