Portal de Murcia
www.portaldemurcia.com
The University of Murcia celebrates this Thursday, June 28, a seminar entitled 'Ethical and legal aspects of research projects'.
This training will be developed from ten in the morning in the auditorium Hermernegildo Lumeras de Castro of the Faculty of Chemistry.
The highlight of the day will come at 3pm with the intervention Lluís Montoliu, researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), member of the Ethics Committee of the CSIC and the Ethics panel of the European Research Council (ERC) and H2020 in Brussels.
Montoliu will give a lecture titled 'Ethical evaluation of European projects of scientific research', in which he will give the keys that researchers have to take into account to correctly face the ethical aspects of their work and get European funding for their projects.
"In general, we tend to think that only ethical conflicts arise in an investigation when it involves the use of animals or there are people involved, but the ethical aspects are also very important in other areas," Montoliu explains.
These other important issues to take into account are, for example, "respect for the environment, the possibility of dual use that may have the results of the investigation, that is, that may have a civil and military use, contemplate the evil use that a technology can have if it falls into the wrong hands, and the protection of data of the participants in an investigation, among other issues, "adds the scientist.
Montoliu will make it clear to the researchers that if all the possible ethical implications are not contemplated and justified in the reports, no matter how good the research project is, it will not get funds from the European Union.
"It is very important to address these issues in the projects and reason them because this is what marks the degree of excellence and quality that is required from the European Union," he stresses.
In his opinion, seminars such as the one given this Thursday at the University of Murcia are very important because "researchers are not used to solving all the ethical aspects that arouse their research, many of which go unnoticed by them".
Montoliu highlights "the efforts of public universities in the Region of Murcia to give this training to their researchers, something not very common."
The seminar 'Ethical and legal aspects of research projects' is co-funded by the European Commission, within the framework of the ERDF Operational Program of the Murcia Region 2014-2020, Action Line 2: "Advice, search for partners and financing of international R + D + i projects.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies