Origin
The International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium is committed, according to its founders "to respond intelligently and forcefully to the decisive challenges facing humankind". An appeal calling for the Collegium's establishment was made public in February 2002 in New York and its membership was officially presented on 2 April 2003 in Brussels before the European Parliament.
Collegium members and associate members, signatories of the Appeal, are scientists, philosophers and present and former Heads of State and Government.
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