EUREC is a network that brings together already existing national Research Ethics Committees (RECs) associations, networks or comparable initiatives on the European level.

Acronym: EUREC

EUREC promotes capacity building and assistance for local RECs to cooperate in the EU European Research Area. As an umbrella organization the network interlinks European RECs with other bodies relevant in the field of research involving human participants like the European Commission's ethical review system and the European Medical Association (EMA). EUREC cooperates with organizations that support research ethics. Such a network forms the infrastructural basis to promote awareness of specific working practices of RECs across Europe, to enhance the shared knowledge base of European RECs, to support coherent reviews and opinions and to meet new challenges and emerging ethical issues. EUREC has been founded in 2005. EUREC Inc. is listed in the register of associations since 2012.

Website: http://www.eurecnet.org/index.html

Address:
Bonn
Germany

Projects:

• VERITY - deVEloping scientific Research with ethIcs and inTegritY
• ETHNA - Ethics Governance System for RRI in Higher Education, Funding and Research Centres
• PRO-Ethics - Participatory Real Life Experiments in Research and Innovation Funding Organisations on Ethics

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