ADVICE FOR SECTION ETHICS IN TEMPLATE

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If you have entered any ethics issues in the ethical issue table in the administrative proposal forms, you must:
=> submit an ethics self-assessment, which: – describes how the proposal meets the national legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries where the tasks raising ethical issues are to be carried out;
– explains in detail how you intend to address the issues in the ethical issues table, in particular as regards: research objectives (e.g. study of vulnerable populations, dual use, etc.); research methodology (e.g. clinical trials, involvement of children and related consent procedures, protection of any data collected, etc.) and; the potential impact of the research (e.g. dual use issues, environmental damage, stigmatisation of particular social groups, political or financial retaliation, benefit- sharing, misuse, etc.).
=> provide the documents that you need under national law(if you already have them), e.g.:
– n ethics commiTee opinion;
– the document notifying activities raising ethical issues or authorising such activities

Explanation

⇒Don’t skip part 5 even if it looks irrelevant and you’re really tempted to do that.
⇒If Ethics are not relevant – briefly explain why that is the case. Same for security.
⇒Examples of activities raising ethical issues and further information on ethics and research integrity can be found under Article 34 of the H2020 Annotated Model Grant Agreement (page 256).
⇒In case you will be processing personal data (such as e-mail addresses or IP addresses, for example), also see Article 39 on Processing of personal data (page 273).