The 11th Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees wil take place tomorrow (17 March) in Berlin, from where UNESCO’s Dr Dafna Feinholz Klip and a SATORI  partner will provide a briefing on ethics practices in the EU.

The SATORI (Stakeholders Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of ­Research and Innovation) project is a 45-month project assessing the ethics of research and innovation (R&I) supported by the European Commission through the predecessor to its Horizon 2020 funding scheme the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). SATORI’s aim is to develop common principles, protocols, procedures and methodologies for the ethical assessment of R&I in the European Union and beyond.

Feinholz Klip, a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Summit 2016, said: “There are many aspects of this work relevant to the Global Summit’s main theme ‘Global Health, Global Ethics, Global Justice’. UNESCO, as one of the SATORI partners, led reports on legal aspects and the impact of globalisation on research and innovation.”

SATORI and other invited stakeholders created policy recommendations for ethical R&I at a workshop at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in June 2015 by way of three reports: ‘How Globalisation Is Changing Research Agendas, Activities and Assessment Procedures within Research & Innovation’; ‘International differences in ethical standards and in the interpretation of legal frameworks’; and ‘Responsible and Ethical Governance of Research and Innovation in the Context of Globalisation’.

The consortium develops tools to help establish a unified European approach to ethics based upon its findings. During the course of the project, SATORI interacts with research ethics committees, national bioethics committees and standardisation organisations around Europe. All SATORI reports are available to view here.

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