Ethics
Getting Through Ethics Review
Introduction
The information which follows identifies the main ethical dilemmas that arise in research and indicates how each topic might be addressed to ensure compliance. It is also advisable to identify the expert(s) within your organisation or your consortium that can provide further advice.
See also the additional information on Ethics related to undertaking ICT research in FP7
Special Guidance Notes
- Guidance Note for Researchers and Evaluators of Social Sciences and Humanities Research [PDF]
- Guidance Note - Ethics and Food-Related Research [PDF]
- A comprehensive strategy on how to minimize research misconduct and the potential misuse of research in EU funded research [PDF]
Ethics check list
Informed Consent [PDF]
- Does the proposal involve children?
- Does the proposal involve patients or persons not able to give consent?
- Does the proposal involve adult healthy volunteers?
- Does the proposal involve Human Genetic Material?
- Does the proposal involve Human biological samples?
- Does the proposal involve Human data collection?
Research on Human embryos/foetus [DOC]
- Does the proposal involve Human Embryos?
- Does the proposal involve Human Foetal Tissue/Cells?
- Does the proposal involve Human Embryonic Stem Cells?
Privacy [DOC]
- Does the proposal involve processing of genetic information or personal data (eg. health, sexual lifestyle, ethnicity, political opinion, religious or philosophical convinction)?
- Does the proposal involve tracking the location or observation of people?
Research on Animals [DOC]
- Does the proposal involve research on animals?
- Are those animals transgenic small laboratory animals?
- Are those animals transgenic farm animals?
- Are those animals cloning farm animals?
- Are those animals non-human primates?
Research Involving Developing Countries [PDF]
- Use of local resources (genetic, animal, plant, etc.)?
- Benefit to local community (capacity building ie access to healthcare, education, etc. )
Dual Use [DOC]
- Resarch having potential military/terrorist application
Supporting documents
- A comprehensive strategy on how to minimize research misconduct and the potential misuse of research in EU funded research [PDF]
- Support on Ethics - The FP7 Health NCP-NET
- Ethics review and the FP7 Ethics Framework [PPT]
- Commission Recommandation of 07/02/2008 on a Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies Research [PDF]
- Ethics for Researchers [PDF]
- The EU gets tough on ethics [PDF]
- Integrating Ethics in EU Research [PDF]
- Concepts on Ethics [PDF]
- ICT Ethics in Healthcare [ PDF; DOC]
- Ethics in Animal Research
- Ethical Issues Report (EIR) [DOC]
- Ethics of Children in Research
- Ethical Considerations for Clinical Trials on Medicinal Products Conducted with the Paediatric Population [PDF]
- Part 1 [ PDF; DOC] - Part 2 [ PDF; DOC] - Part 3 [ PDF; DOC]
- Ethics relating to Children in Research [ DOC ; PPT] - Use of Children as Research Subjects [ DOC ; PPT] - Areas of Research [ DOC ; PPT]
Should there be further ethical issues in your proposal that are not addressed here please contact: Isidoros Karatzas
Last updated on: 2011-06-15
