SATORI (Stakeholders Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation) was a four-year EU project to develop a common European framework for the ethical assessment of research and innovation activity. I contributed to the project during my time with the University of Twente in 2015 and 2016.
Further details about the project and the guidelines it developed are available at the SATORI website.
References
2017
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A Reasoned Proposal for Shared Approaches to Ethics Assessment in the European Context
Philip Jensen, Wessel Reijers, David Douglas, Faridun Sattarov, Agata Gurzawska, Alexandra Kapeller, Philip Brey, Rok Benčin, Zuzanna Warso, and Robert Braun
May 2017
This report presents a comprehensive proposal for a common ethics assessment framework for research and innovation (R&I) in the European Union member states. It details recommendations for good practices for ethics assessment, which includes the development of ethics assessment units and the protocols of these units. More specifically, the report presents a general toolkit for ethics assessment of R&I, as well as specialised tools and toolkits for specific types of organizations that deal with ethics assessment, and for different scientific fields.
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Roadmap towards Adoption of a Fully Developed Ethics Assessment Framework
Anna Leinonen, Raija Koivisto, Anu Tuominen, David Douglas, Agata Gurzawska, Philip Jansen, Alexandra Kapeller, and Philip Brey
May 2017
The aim of the SATORI roadmap process was to work out how the SATORI ethics assessment framework can be implemented in practice. The timespan of the roadmap was set at 10 years. To begin, a vision of a future in which the SATORI framework is implemented was formulated. Theories about the implementation of new social practices were subsequently studied, and a model for the implementation of the SATORI framework was constructed. This model was then used as the basis for identifying the steps (or outcomes) that need to be taken in order to realise the vision. Finally, these steps were fleshed out by listing recommendations and associated actions that need to be taken by various stakeholder groups that are involved in ethics assessment of research and innovation.
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Outline of an Ethics Assessment Framework
Ingrid Callies, Philip Jansen, Wessel Reijers, David Douglas, Agata Gurzawska, Alexandra Kapeller, Philip Brey, Rok Benčin, and Zuzanna Warso
May 2017
2016
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Models for Ethics Assessment and Guidance in Higher Education
Philip Brey, David Douglas, Alexandra Kapeller, Rok Benčin, Daniela Ovadia, and Doris Wolfslehner
May 2016
This report will investigate best practices for developing ethics assessment and guidance in universities, through research ethics committees (RECs), institutional policies, scientific integrity boards, teaching and training, and other means. The objective is to identify different means by which universities may promote and regulate consideration of ethical aspects of research and innovation within their institutions, and to make recommendations on the means that are most adequate and the ways in which they may be implemented. The report subsequently considers goals for ethics at universities, pathways for advancing ethics at universities, ethics codes and protocols, scientific integrity boards and codes, ethics assessment and research ethics committees, and ethics teaching and training. It ends with a summary of the recommendations of earlier sections.
2015
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Principles and Approaches in Ethics Assessment: Ethics and Risk
Raija Koivisto, and David Douglas
Jun 2015
This report aims to study and discuss the ethical aspects of risk assessment and management, and how risk plays a role in the ethical assessment of research. It introduces the central concepts – risk and ethics – and examines the different phases of the risk management process from the ethical point of view. It also describes the ethical principles used to determine whether the risks of conducting research are acceptable. The increasing complexity of systems, products and services due to new technological and social developments is making risk assessment and management more challenging and emphasizes the need to consider ethical issues systematically in the risk assessment process.
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Ethics Assessment in Different Countries: China
Xin Ming, David Douglas, Agata Gurzawska, and Philip Brey
Jun 2015
The aim of this report is to analyse the existing structures and agents for the ethical assessment of research and innovation in China, both for the public and the private sector. The report will analyse how the national government has put into place organisational structures, laws, policies and procedures for ethical assessment, how both publicly funded and private research and innovation systems address ethical issues in research and innovation, and how ethical assessment plays a role in the activities of professional groups and associations for research and innovation and of civil society organisations (CSOs).
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Ethics Assessment in Different Fields: Medical and Life Sciences
Karin Leersum, and David Douglas
Jun 2015
This is a report on ethics assessment of medical and life sciences. Ethics assessment concerns the question what is good and bad or right and wrong about a certain technology or practice. Such assessments help organisations determine to what extent ethical standards should influence decision making at both organisational and individual levels. The aim of this report is to cover both the academic and non-academic traditions of ethical assessment, and the institutionalisation of ethics assessment in different types of organisations, including national and international standards and legislation. This report is a part of a larger study of the SATORI project.
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SATORI Deliverable D1.1: Ethical Assessment of Research and Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Practices and Institutions in the EU and Selected Other Countries
Clare Shelley-Egan, Philip Brey, Rowena Rodrigues, David Douglas, Agata Gurzawska, Lise Bitsch, David Wright, and Kush Wadhwa
Jun 2015
This deliverable offers a detailed picture of the de facto ethics assessment landscape in the European Union and other countries with regard to approaches, practices and institutions for ethics assessment across scientific fields, different kinds of organisations that carry out assessment, and different countries. The deliverable is based on in-depth study of ethics assessment in ten countries in the European Union, and the United States (US) and China, as well as studies of particular organisations in other EU countries. This main report summarises the results of work package 1 of the SATORI project and provides a comparative analysis of ethics assessment in the scientific fields, organisations and countries investigated.
