Ethics Committee

The ethics Committee acts at the request of the scientist or the dean's office.

Applications for the assessment of your own research project, usually in connection with a planned scientific publication or a research proposal, can be submitted:

• by scientists from the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences and
• by students at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences, limited to final theses or study-related studies / projects supervised by a scientist at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences. In this case, the application must be submitted jointly by the student and the supervisor.

An ethics review is required if:

1. people are directly involved, e.g. through:

• Interviews, surveys or experiments with participants.
• Observations in sensitive contexts (e.g. clinics, psychiatric wards, prisons).
• Research with particularly vulnerable groups (children, elderly people, sick people, refugees, etc.).

2. psychological or physical stress for participants is possible:

• e.g. with sensitive topics such as violence, sexuality, addiction, trauma.

3. medical or psychological interventions take place:

• e.g. administration of medication, diagnostics, tests with effects on the body.

4. deception or limited information (in experiments) is provided:

• e.g. if participants are not fully informed (also in the case of planned debriefings).

5. personal or sensitive data is collected and processed, especially if:

• complete anonymization is not possible.
• sound, image or video recordings are made.