Citizen Science: Ethics

This guide provides case studies, resources and information on relevant events to support UCD staff, researchers, academics and students interested in citizen science.

ETHNA Toolbox

Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice by Elsa González-Esteban, Ramón A. Feenstra, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
ISBN: 9783031331770
Publication Date: 2023

This Open Access book aims to provide a practical and useful guide that will help other institutions to start introducing Research Ethics effectively in their organizations. The European initiative ETHNA System has designed an ethics governance framework that can be implemented following specific guidelines and tools that can help different types of institutions to promote and generate responsible research and innovation.

Toolbox to implement the ETHNA System
A fundamental benefit provided by the ETHNA System is to ensure that Research & Innovation activities are financed and carried out in a responsible way. The ETHNA System does this by providing a system of supporting tools, which then helps to build trust among people, administrations, and organisations.

Ethics

PRO-Ethics – Participatory real life experiments in research and innovation funding organisations on ethics
This Ethics Framework consists of principles, guidelines, assessment criteria, good practice and proposals on regulatory environments with a focus on how citizens’ engagement can be properly put in place without disregarding ethical principles of fairness, transparency, gender equality, privacy and sustainability.
Data Ethics for Practitioners
This online tutorial was created in collaboration with the Citizen Science Association by SciStarter and is designed for practitioners and leaders of participatory science projects, including citizen science and community science projects.

Ethics Framework and Guidelines

Ethics Framework and Guidelines: a guide for research funding organizations implementing participatory activities

Authors: Martijn Wiarda ; Kalli Giannelos ; Stefanie Schuerz ; Bernard Reber ; Neelke Doorn

The Framework helps users understand the context in which they undertake a participatory process and guides them through mapping and addressing the ethical challenges and limitations that might arise. Tools and guidelines offer “actions” to be considered for ethical stakeholder participation before, during, and after the implementation of participatory processes. This framework document includes a useful glossary of terms. It was developed and written in the context of the Horizon 2020 project PRO-Ethics.