Research Ethics

"Scientists handle the constitutionally granted freedom of research responsibly. They take into account rights and obligations, especially those resulting from legal requirements, but also from contracts with third parties, and, if necessary, obtain and submit approvals and ethical votes. With regard to research projects, a thorough assessment of the research consequences and evaluation of the respective ethical aspects should be carried out" (DFG-Guideline 10).

Here you can find information on the ethics committees responsible for the various disciplines:

• Ethics Committee of the University Göttingen
• Ethics Committee of the Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute for Psychology
• Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center

Here you may find a "Best Practice Collection on Research Ethics" compiled by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) for different user groups:

• Collection for researchers
• Collection for reasearch ethics in university teaching
• Collection for ethics committees
• Reading recommendations on research ethics

Please also note the cross-disciplinary as well as discipline-specific guidelines on research ethics published by national and international academic associations:

• List of the ethics guidelines and codes of the German Data Forum (RatSWD)