eurec Newsletter 2011/1
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EUREC – Project News
On 1 March 2011 the Kick-Off Meeting of
the EURECNET project has taken place at
the conference centre of the Rheinisches
Landesmuseum in Bonn. The main objec-
tive of the meeting was to bring together
all project partners in order to provide
them with information about the details of
the several working packages the project
comprises and to discuss the further pro-
ceeding and strategic considerations nec-
essary in order to set up EURECNET as a
permanent platform for the networking of
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) in
Europe.
After a welcome note and a general intro-
duction to the Kick-Off-Meeting by the
coordinator of the EUREC Project, Dr. Dirk
Lanzerath (DRZE), Dr. Lino Paula (Scien-
tific Officer, European Commission, Direc-
torate General for Research and Innova-
tion) gave an overview on the project's
concept, its history and aims. In this con-
text he touched upon the historical
milestones of research ethics committees
(RECs),
the need for European exchange,
and hence for EUREC.
Dr. Lanzerath’s and Dr. Paula’s presenta-
tions were followed by presentations by
Professor Dr. Elmar Doppelfeld (Permanent
Working Party of Research Ethics Commit-
tees in Germany, Cologne), Professor David
Townend (Care and Public Health Research
Institute, Maastricht), Professor Dr. Domi-
nique Sprumont (Université Neuchâtel -
Institut de droit de la santé, Neuchâtel), Dr.
Michael Bone (The Association of Research
Ethics Committees Sunderland, Newcastle),
Professor Dr. Eugenijus Gefenas (The
Lithuanian Bioethics Committee, Vilnius)
and Professor Dr. Knut Ruyter (National
Committee for Medical and Health Care
Research Ethics, Oslo) who are the leaders
of the five main working packages of the
EUREC Project.
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