Council of Europe discussed European academic cooperation with Russian universities

The Council of Europe discussed yesterday and today in Moscow with leading Russian universities the prospects for enhanced academic cooperation on the Council of Europe's conventions. 
As a first step, a new training course on human rights and biomedicine (bioethics) was presented at the Faculty of Medicine of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The course has been developed by the Council of Europe and the Russian Ministry of Health under the Pan-European HELP programme (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals). It deals with issues regulated by the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, including the free and informed consent, protection of health-related data, protection of the embryo and procreation, end of life, genetic testing, biomedical research, and the transplantation of human organs and tissues. More...