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Research Ethics

Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research

Chairman / Secretary:

Members of Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research

Ethics Committee for Social Sciences and Arts Research

Chairman / Secretary:

Members of Ethics Committee for Social Sciences and Arts Research

Ethics Committee for Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences

Chairperson:

Secretary:

Members of Ethics Committee for Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences

Regulations EKV

• Statute – Rector’s directive SR/4/2026 EKV
• Rules of Procedure – Rector’s Directive SR/5/2026

International Standards and Guidelines

The Most Important International Ethical Standards for Research:

Biomedicine

• WMA Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (World Medical Association, 1964/2013)
• Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, ETS No 164: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine (Council of Europe, 1997)
• Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings, CETS No. 168 (Council of Europe, 1998)
• Additional Protocol concerning Biomedical Research, CETS No. 195 (Council of Europe, 2005)
• CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans (Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, 2002/2016)
• OECD Guidelines on Human Biobanks and Genetic Research Databases (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009)

Psychology

• APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (American Psychological Association, 2002/2017)
• BPS Code of Human Research Ethics (British Psychological Society, 2021)
• EFPA Meta-Code of Ethics (European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations, 1995/2005)

Sociology

• ISA Code of Ethics (International Sociological Association, 2001)
• ASA Code of Ethics (American Sociological Association, 2018)

Personal Data Protection

• General Data Protection Regulation: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC)

Documents

Data Management Plan: The Data Management Plan serves as the basis for the EKV meeting. The system for completing the plan can be accessed here after logging in.

Data Steward

PhDr. Ondřej Fabián, Data Steward, provides support in the preparation and management of the Data Management Plan and serves as the point of contact for any questions or clarifications.