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European Action on Global Life Sciences (EAGLES)

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As a major player in life sciences and holding influential positions in international deliberations, Europe has a responsibility to help the developing world deal with the risks, challenges and opportunities of these technologies, and to facilitate the safe and efficient development and use of life sciences and biotechnology in developing countries.

European Action in Global Life Sciences (EAGLES) intends to address these questions by designing and implementing projects to be carried out mostly by life scientists from developing countries that will stimulate and facilitate activities for the European life sciences to respond to the needs of developing countries.

The members of EAGLES are determined to ensure that the skills and resources of European life sciences are properly used for the benefits of mankind. The members of EAGLES believe:

• That the greatest humanitarian challenges for the life sciences lie in the problems of illness, starvation and environmental degradation which are faced by hundreds of millions of people in our world today, and will be faced by millions more in the coming decades.

• That life scientists everywhere have a responsibility to address these global challenges.

• That European life scientists could and should make a much greater contribution to meet these challenges.

• That European policies should facilitate the life sciences in meeting these challenges.

In addressing these challenges that the people of Europe and their leaders should pay careful attention to the knowledge and advice of distinguished life scientists and humanists from the developing and emerging countries.

EAGLES Homepage

Chairman of EFB Task Group on EAGLES
Professor David McConnell
Department of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
IRL-Dublin 2
Tel. +353 1 6081140
Fax. +353 1 6714968
David.McConnell@tcd.ie

Executive Director of EAGLES EU project
Jens Degett
Hernani 68, 6B
28020 Madrid, Spain
Tel.: +34 91 220 3157
jdegett@jubii.dk