Applied ethics projects (AEP)

Since 2001, the Research Group Practical Ethics and Democracy, led by Professor Domingo García-Marzá, has undertaken a line of work about transferring knowledge to institutions and companies. This group offers advanced services in which applied ethics projects are oriented, tested and directed in institutions by developing and implementing sophisticated ethics management tools.

The objective of these projects is to help companies and institutions to implement ethical values, define and manage their social and ecological responsibility, and solve possible moral conflicts.

Nowadays, the economic benefit and the social-ecological benefit ratio is what society demands, and the reputation of a company and institution depends mainly on their response to these new challenges. Applied ethics provides an innovative perspective for both the management and communication of a company’s social responsibility.

Putting into practice the different implementation projects has centred specifically on developing tools like: codes of ethics, codes of conduct, responsibility or sustainability reports, the ethical management of relationships with their stakeholders, materiality reports from the ethical perspective, training programmes in codes of ethics and codes of conduct, ethical lines and designing ethical management systems.

Our group has ample experience in SMEs and large-sized companies, and also in health organisations, universities and civic organisations. Its work method involves forming a joint working group from which the company is defined and accompanied through the whole process.

Its most outstanding projects:

• I Report of University Responsibility of the Universitat Jaume I (2018)
• Code of Ethics of the Universitat Jaume I (2017)
• Boosting and promoting ethical and responsible tourism among Valencian tourist agents (Agència Valenciana de Turisme) (2016, 2017 and 2018)
• Materiality of the impacts on matters of Ethics and ECR in the Unión de Mutuas (2015)
• Implementing an Ethics programme and its compliance in UBE (2015)
• Identification and hierarchisation of groups of interest in the Unión de Mutuas (2014)
• Institutions’ design to manage ethics in UBE Europa and Latin America (2013)
• BBVA’s counselling about transparent, clear and responsible (TCR) communication (2010)
• The Training and Communication Plan of the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct of the Unión de Mutuas (2003 and 2006)
• Code of Ethics of Atos Origin (2008)
• The Social Responsibility Report of the Unión de Mutuas (2006, 2007 and 2008)
• Code of Good Health Practices of the Unión de Mutuas (2004)
• Ethical Intervention Plan in Intercoop (2004)
• Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct of the Unión de Mutuas (2002 and the 2017 review)

Projects in which the team members have collaborated:

• Code of Ethics of the Universitat Politècnica de València (2018)
• Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct of the Fundación ONCE (2010)
• Code of Ethics of the Universitat de Lleida (2009)
• Ethical auditing of Mercadona (2002-2003)
• Code of Ethics and ethical norms of Corporación ACERALIA (2000)

The Research Group also actively participates in the following committees and platforms:

• Comité de Bioética Asistencial del Hospital General de Castellón – The Bioethics Welfare Committee of the General Hospital in Castellón (since 2000)
• Comité de Bioética Asistencial del Hospital de la Madalena de Castellón – The Bioethics Welfare
• Comité de ética de Unión de Mutuas – Committee of the Madalena Hospital in Castellón (since 2003)
• Comité de ética de Unión de Mutuas – The Ethics Committee of the Unión de Mutuas (since 2003)
• Mesa de RSE de Castellón – The ESR Table of Castellón (since 2008)
• Comité de ética de UBE (Europa y Latinoamerica) – The UBE Ethics Committee (Europe and Latin America) (since 2014)
• Jurado de Publicidad de Autocontrol – The Self-Control advertising Panel (since 2017)

Objectives and methodology

Services portfolio

Benefits