Links
Related webpages at the BOKU
Animal Welfare Body (after login: detailed information in German)
Ombudsstelle (safeguarding good scientific practice)
Academic whistleblower (reporting misconduct and/or breaches of rules)
Research support (after login: > general information on project applications)
Language at BOKU: gender sensitive, diversity aware and inclusive
Further documents and links
Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
BM:BWF (2020). Best practice guide for research integrity and ethics. Vienna: Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
European Commission
EC (2021). Ethics and data protection
EC (2021). Ethics in Social Science and Humanities
EC (2021). The ethics appraisal scheme in Horizon Europe
EC (2021). How to complete your ethics self-assessment
EC Online Manual > Ethics review
Karatzas, I. Research ethics in Horizon 2020. DG RTD. (presentation slides, very detailed and helpful!)
Ethical principles in research with animals
EU legislation for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes
Eggel and Würbel (2020). Internal consistency and compatibility of the 3Rs and 3Vs principles for project evaluation of animal research. Laboratory Animals 55(3): 233-243.
Percie du Sert et al. (2020). The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research. PLOS biology 18(7): e3000410.
Ethical principles in research involving human participants
Code of Ethics of the International Society for Ethnobiology
Belmont Report - Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research
Bracken-Roche et al. (2017). The concept of 'vulnerability' in research ethics: an in-depth analysis of policies and guidelines.
Israel, M. (2015). Research ethics and integrity for social scientists. Sage. (available as e-book from the BOKU library)
For research in Third Countries
Schroeder et al. (2019). Equitable research partnerships. A global code to counter ethics dumping. Springer (open access)
FAO. Free, prior, and informed consent by indigenous people
Should you have any suggestions for links to include in this list, please send it to: ethikkommission(at)boku.ac.at. Thank you very much!