EUREC Projects: irecs

irecs


improving Research Ethics Expertise and Competencies to Ensure Reliability and Trust in Science

Objectives

• Establish a rich and nuanced understanding of challenges raised by new technologies in relation to ethics review processes
• Develop and disseminate proposals for the adaptation of ethics review processes
• Create education, training, and awareness in research ethics and ethics review, reaching European and international ethics experts and researchers
• Implement and embed sustainable education, training, and awareness on a European and global level through a training program for ethics reviewers and pilot institutions
• Generate long-term impact through a sustainable dissemination and exploitation alliance based on the pillar networks of EUREC, ENERI, EUA, EARMA, and the Embassy of Good Science

Outputs:

• Training materials and awareness actions for research ethics experts, researchers and students, complemented by teacher and learner guides
• A dataset of ethical challenges of new technologies
• Recommendations on how ethics review processes could be adapted
• Recommendations to mitigate ethical challenges of research on and with new technologies
• Recommendations to reduce the risk of ethics dumping in research on and with new technologies
• An implementation guide for research organizations on how to integrate iRECS training and recommendations into standard operating procedures and curricula
• Recommendations on how stakeholders can strengthen ethics review processes

Duration:

October 2022 - September 2025

For further information visit:
Website: www.irecs.eu

Twitter: https://twitter.com/irecs_eu



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Contact: eurec@eurecnet.org