Approval by the Ethics Committee is required when the research:

• involves participants (for example through questionnaires, interviews, experiments or observations), and/or
• involves the processing of personal data (for example when analysing existing datasets).

Approval must be obtained before involving participants or processing personal data.

Upholding ethical standards during research and obtaining ethics approval where necessary is an integral part of complying with the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, see 3.2 (13) and 4.6 (18) of the 2018 version. A growing number of academic journals as well as Dutch and European funding bodies require the formal approval of an Ethics Committee before an article can be published or a subsidy granted.  

Contact and more information

You can contact the Ethics Committee by sending an email to commissie-ethiek-fgw@uva.nl.

Staff members can consult the staff website or more information and procedural instructions:

Ethical review of research
Faculty Ethics Committee

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