Ethical aspects Clause Samples

Ethical aspects. Ethical aspects related to collection and use of data in MULTI-STR3AM are mostly related to personal data, for example those collected in connection with stakeholder interviews, discussions with policy makers and names and for the purpose of newsletter signup. The collection and use of such data should be kept to a minimum and only on a “need to know” basis. With guidance from the Data Management Officer, each project partner is responsible for complying with their own Data Protection Policy and GDPR rules.

Ethical aspects. Clinical and patient sequencing data fall under sensitive personal data and access to them must be restricted and monitored. These are covered in more detail by the (confidential) project ethics deliverables D13.1 (D52) H - Requirement No. 1, D13.2 (D53) H - Requirement No. 2, D13.4 (D55) POPD - Requirement No. 4, and D13.5 (D5) POPD - Requirement No.

Ethical aspects. An ethics screening was done at the project proposal stage and in the grant agreement preparation of the project. No noteworthy ethics issues were identified. Informed consent for personal data where it regards photos or videos is handled through the consent form as part of WP8. For preservation of these data, where project beneficiaries are the data controllers, these are handled in conformity with the data protection statement (as referenced in the consent form).

Ethical aspects. ‌ The ethical aspects of collecting and storing data in MEESO are treated in three separate deliverables on ethics. These deliverables will include: - The procedures and criteria that will be used to identify/recruit research participants. - The informed consent procedures that will be implemented for the participation of humans. - Templates of the informed consent forms and information sheets covering the voluntary participation and data protection issues (in language and terms intelligible to the participants) must be kept on file (to be specified in the grant agreement). - The English version of the templates of the informed consent forms and information sheets. - Details on the experiments to be conducted and information on the procedures to ensure animal welfare and adherence to the Three Rs principle.

Ethical aspects. An Informed Consent Form needs to be signed and collected from individuals who participate in interviews or workshops. Individuals have the right to take back their consent, which means revisions would be necessary. As names and personal information are not relevant to CIRCuIT, interviews and questionnaires should be kept anonymous, where possible, to avoid any conflict with the Informed Consent Form. If data and the Informed Consent Form are used, a copy of opinion is required. Individuals participating in their professional capacity, e.g. representing private companies, non-governmental organisations or public authorities, will not be asked to fill in the informed consent form.

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Ethical aspects. Part of the research data may contain personal information and it will be handled following guidelines and regulation such as GDPR. A Data Contact will be nominated and a contact point on personal data related issues will be set up to answer queries and requests for personal data related issues. Metadata provided by industry partners may have issues related to the journalistic nature of the original datasets. Some of these datasets, such as the metadata provided by Yle, have been designed and intended for in-house production use of a broadcaster, and opening this data to outside users may result in needs to protect sensitive or confidential information stored within the data. These issues are resolved by removing and/or overwriting sensitive and confidential information in the research data set before delivering it to the project. The user data (interview, observation and test data) collected during the project from experiments and authentic workplace interactions between human beings are sensitive data and will be protected and handled with proper care and measures (see MeMAD DoA, Chapter 5).

Ethical aspects. ‌ At the present moment, we don’t foresee any ethical issues related to the project’s work plan.

Ethical aspects. In a perfect world, the question whether gender diversity on board is relevant would not arise. A uniform distribution of talent between genders on board level would occur naturally (Langevoort, 2010). However, the imperfect world we are in compromises gender discrimination and unequal opportunities. This makes the issue of gender diversity on boards relevant at least from a social justice perspective. ▇▇▇▇▇ (2014) states that fairness, equal opportunity and making better use of the female pool of talent are key arguments to strive for gender balance on board. Additionally, boards of directors should see interest in including women at all societal levels and taking advantage of their skills to an equal extent to that of men (Nielsen, 2010). As stated by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ (2008), it is immoral for women to be excluded from corporate boards based on gender. In fact, gender equality besides being a fundamental right, should be considered as a desirable goal to achieve. As women still have a way to go to reach parity with men in the boardroom, they should be given the same opportunities as their male counterparts (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2016). Gender balance on board level is more than a moral duty or only a women issue, every company has a social responsibility as being part of society. In fact, having gender equality on board is an integral part of the corporate social responsibility of a company and might improve the company’s image (Deloitte, 2016).