CHANGER

Although the existing ethics review infrastructure includes experienced members with expertise in traditional research, this is not the case for new technologies and transformative research that result in new human rights, such as digital rights. Thus, there is a clear need for ethics committees to evolve in order to cover this gap and to be able to support innovation while embedding new human rights.

CHANGER aims to promote changes in research ethics reviews that strengthen the capacities of researchers to incorporate ethical judgements in the project design and implementation, and to support ethics committees to address new challenges posed by new technologies and new research practices.

CHANGER reviews current practices and ethics criteria and identifies and discusses new challenges emerging from new technologies and from new research practices, which are not sufficiently covered in the current review process. It provides innovative training to ethics review experts and researchers, and proposes innovative approaches and tools to ethics review reform and new understandings to practice ethics by design, supported by guidelines and a policy roadmap.

Duration of the project

2024 - 2026

Awarded grant

2,879,401 euros (of which 259,543 euros for the UG), obtained from Horizon Europe

Contact persons at our Faculty

Prof. G.P. (Jeanne) Mifsud Bonnici
Dr. M. (Marina) Markellou
Mr. M. (Melania) Tudorica

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