The NCE and the Central Ethics Committee (CEC) of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) are staging a series of events over several years to reflect on the key ethical concept of autonomy and the premises behind it. Every year the cycle of symposia, which started in summer 2015, takes an in-depth look at one aspect of the subject.

• Information on the 2019 symposium on “autonomy and happiness”
• Reports on previous symposia