Work Package 7:

Standardizing operating procedures and certification for ethics assessment

• Deliverable 7.1: A report on standardizing operating procedures in assessment procedures

  Task Leader: NEN

  • A report on standardizing operating procedures in assessment procedures

    The report analyses and assesses the feasibility of developing a standard for ethics assessment of research and innovation.

• Deliverable 7.2: Exploring the potential of conformity assessment techniques to support ethics assessment

  Task Leader: TRI

  • Exploring the potential of conformity assessment techniques to support ethics assessment

    This report explores (in consultation with stakeholders) whether conformity assessment, and specifically certification, could be helpful in facilitating and improving the use and quality of ethics assessment in research and innovation (R& I). The report studies conformity assessment including certification, certification and ethics, ISO standards on certification, stakeholder views on conformity assessment and certification, and how certification is regulated at the EUlevel. It explores how (and what types of) conformity assessment could be used to support the application of the SATORI CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on ethics assessment for research and innovation and presents some tools to facilitate its use, e.g., self-assessment and declaration of conformity (process and templates); a self-declaration of conformity publication platform; self-assessment and declaration review; benchmarking for maturity; peer-review; and a peer-review publication platform.