Research Ethics Committee (CER)

The Research Ethics Committee was approved by the Board of Governors’ Executive Committee on 9 May 2011, to ensure that all in research projects undertaken at UIC Barcelona institutional values would be respected as well as the UIC’s Code of Good Scientific Practices.

Since then, the CER has focused on continuing to promote the dissemination of its mission throughout all the faculties at UIC Barcelona, and is in charge of evaluating ethics in final degree projects, final master’s degree projects, doctoral theses and research projects across the university in which individual people participate, either via questionnaires or interventions, or in which animal experimentation or biological material that can affect the environment is used.

A favourable ruling from the research ethics committee is a requisite that has been legally established when starting any research projects involving human beings and/or personal data, and is a guarantee of compliance with the ethical rules and quality standards demanded by scientific journals, in order to be able to publish, as well as the regulations for the various calls for funding research projects.

The CER consists of a president, a technical secretary and a teaching and research staff member (PDI) for each area of knowledge.