IJ is part of the consortium of the CHANGER Project (Horizon Europe)
The CHANGER Project - CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIVE CHANGES IN RESEARCH ETHICS REVIEWS was approved in the Horizon Europe programme (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01-12).
This project is coordinated by the NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS", Greece, and it aims to promote changes in ethical reviews in research projects that strengthen researchers' capacities to incorporate ethical judgments in project design and implementation, and support ethics committees in addressing new challenges posed by new technologies and new research practices. CHANGER will review current practices and ethics criteria, will identify and discuss new challenges emerging from new technologies and from new research practices, which are not sufficiently covered in the current review process, will provide innovative training to ethics review experts and researchers, and propose innovative approaches and tools to ethics review reform and new understandings to practice ethics by design, supported by guidelines and a policy roadmap.
The CHANGER consortium has 18 partners, presenting interdisciplinary extensive and long-standing experience-based expertise in research ethics reviews, integrity oversight and human rights and is capable of providing novel solutions to the needs in ethics reviews.
The participation of the UCILeR is led by our researcher André Dias Pereira. The total funding of the project is €2,999,401.25.