About us

CUREG2.0’s role is to:

1) assess ethical aspects of research projects:

• that involve human participants and fall outside the scope of the Swiss Federal Human Research Act (RS 810.30);

• that take place in open spaces ­– typically outside a lab – and that could have an adverse impact on the environment; or

• whose results could serve multiple purposes and have military, security, political or intelligence-related implications;

2) assess, where necessary, inter-institutional research projects involving a researcher from the University of Geneva;

3) identify and approve the ethical principles and rules applicable to the research projects mentioned in points 1 and 2 above;

4) promote training on research ethics;

5) advise researchers on ethical aspects of their research projects.

Reference documents

We base our work on the principles of ethical research set out in the documents below.

• Nuremberg Code
• Belmont Report
• Helsinki Declaration

Useful documents/links

• Integrity in Scientific Research – Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (2008)
• Research with Human Subjects – Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (2015)