Science and Engineering Ethics (2006) 12, 731-793 Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2006 731 Keywords: ethics of science, networking, reproductive cloning, germline gene therapy, human dignity ABTRACT: This paper reports on the meeting of the Sounding Board of the EU Reprogenetics Project that was held in Budapest, Hungary, 6-9 November 2005. The Reprogenetics Project runs from 2004 until 2007 and has a brief to study the ethical aspects of human reproductive cloning and germline gene therapy. Discussions during The Budapest Meeting are reported in depth in this paper as well as the initiatives to involve the participating groups and others in ongoing collaborations with the goal of forming an integrated network of European resources in the fields of ethics of science. There is an abundance of information, creativity and researcher enthusiasm just waiting to be tapped in the many EU-funded projects relating to the ethics of science. Coordinators of relevant projects are exploring possibilities of increasing the value of these resources through structured interactions. The process began at a meeting organized by the EU Reprogenetics project that took place in Budapest on November 6-9, 2005. Reprogenetics is an EU funded project that started in 2004 and will end in 2007. The project is studying the ethical aspects of two controversial issues: the use of human cloning as a means for reproduction (often called “human reproductive cloning”) and the use of human gene therapy, which The Budapest Meeting 2005 Intensified Networking on Ethics of Science The case of Reproductive Cloning, Germline Gene Therapy and Human Dignity Guido Van Steendam, András Dinnyés, Jacques Mallet, Rolando Meloni, Carlos Romeo Casabona, Jorge Guerra González, Josef Kuře, Eörs Szathmáry, Jan Vorstenbosch, Péter Molnár, David Edbrooke, Judit Sándor, Ferenc Oberfrank, Ron Cole-Turner, István Hargittai, Beate Littig, Miltos Ladikas, Emilio Mordini, Hans E. Roosendaal, Maurizio Salvi, Balázs Gulyás, Diana Malpede* * For more information about the authors of this summary article, researchers on the Reprogenetics project and participants in The Budapest Meeting and follow-up workshop, see pp. 792-793. Address for correspondence: Guido Van Steendam, Director, International Forum for Biophilosophy, Craenendonck 15, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; guido.vansteendam@biophilosophy.be. ISSN 1353-3452 (2006) Opragen Publications, POB 54, Guildford GU1 2YF, UK. http://www.opragen.co.uk