ETHNA System
Ethics Governance System for RRI in Higher Education, Funding and Research Centres
The Practical Ethics and Democracy research group will coordinate the European Project ETHNA System, whose aim is to develop and implement an ethics governance system to promote good research and responsible innovation (RRI) practices in Higher Education centres, research centres and research finance institutions. This project, led by teacher Elsa González Esteban, will take place between January 2020 and December 2022, and ten partners from eight countries will participate.
This project corresponds to the Swafs call of Horizon 2020, and it will implement and validate an ethics governance system by integrating an ETHNA office into the management of six organisations from the consortium: two universities, one of which is the UJI, two centres that finance research and two Technology Parks from Spain, Norway, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria and Portugal. The ETHNA office is backed by four tools: a code of ethics, an Ethics Committee, an ethical line of warnings and suggestions, and indicators to inform about RRI being met. So the intention is to contribute to put into practice institutional changes in EU research and innovation structures from an ethical perspective to promote and institutionalise RRI, whose basic pillars include research ethics and integrity, gender equality, open science and citizen commitment.
The Practical Ethics and Democracy research group that leads this project, led by Prof. Domingo García Marzá, contributes its experience in setting up management systems of ethics in organisations. Moreover, the UJI Rights, Gender and Effective Equality between Men and Women Group, coordinated by Prof. Santiago García Campá, contributes by generating indicators for different RRI dimensions.
Basic project information
Principal Investigator
Researchers
Dr. Patrici Calvo
Dr. Francisco Fernández Beltrán
Dra. Pepa Senent Vidal
Consortium Members
Universitat Jaume I (UJI). Spain
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU). Norway.
Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT). Spain.
Zentrum Für Soziale Innovation (ZSI). Austria.
Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund). Bulgaria.
Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT). Denmark.
European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC). Germany.
Biocom (BIO). Germany.
Archimedes Foundation (ARCHIMEDES). Estonia.
Uninova – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (UNINOVA). Portugal.
Duration: 2020-2022
Financing: Horizon 2020. 5-2018-2019 Grounding RRI practices in research and innovation funding and performing organisations