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The Global Perspectives program sought to empower engineers to ask ethical research questions and to examine the ethical dimensions of their current research practices. To enable this line of questioning, the program offered a safe zone in which listening, free discussion and reflection had their place. We spent much time together as a group, having both contentdriven as well as personal conversations. In this setting we had the opportunity to, far from the usual power dynamics of our research settings, reflect on our own working environments and the role of ethics therein.

Sunderland and colleagues argue that exposing students to such interdisciplinary and international experiences fosters a more inquiring attitude in ethics education. On several occasions during the program the participants started comparing each other’s research context, simply by telling ‘how things were done’at somebody else’s lab or office …