• Understand why ethics is important in research with humans and identify its basic principles
• Become familiar with the European and Spanish legislation about personal data protection
• Find out about the procedure to apply for ethics review at UPF

The course is for UPF teaching and research staff members, master and PhD students, and research support staff members.

The estimated time to complete the course is 3.5 hours. The course comprises several modules that take between 15 and 45 minutes each to complete. 

You will obtain two certificates: one automatically generated by CITI that will list all the block 1 modules completed and another one from CIREP confirming that you completed the three blocks.

We have a protocol library containing protocol forms of projects recently approved by CIREP at your disposal. Please email us (secr[email protected]) to request access to the protocol library.

See pages 27 and 28 of the Horizon Europe Programme Guide for a series of resources on research ethics and personal data protection by the European Commission.

• Pseudonymous data: processing personal data while mitigating risks
• 10 misunderstandings related to anonymisation

If your project involves recruiting students, please read this short guide.

• Social Media Research: A Guide to Ethics (note that this guide predates the General Data Protection Regulation)
• 10 misunderstandings about machine learning 

2022

Research Ethics Day 

2019

CIREP Training on Ethics and Personal Data Protection in Research