About

Environmental and climate-related challenges are global and reach all sectors of society. However, research and innovation (R&I) activities that address these challenges may carry substantial unintended implications. RE4GREEN aims to contribute to a European Research Area ethics and integrity framework for R&I activities designed to reduce the risk from such implications and to support the transition to a sustainable economy and society as envisioned by the European Green Deal. RE4GREEN will reflect diverse stakeholder views and relate them to cross-cutting environmental and climate-related ethics issues by applying a bottom-up social lab methodology. RE4GREEN’s framework will consist of operational research ethics and integrity guidelines, recommendations, and training materials for researchers, ethics and integrity experts and advisors, and ethics reviewers to ensure R&I activities support the Green Transition.

Objectives

  • To map environmental and climate ethics in the context of research and innovation (R&I) and identify key ethics and integrity challenges for R&I in the green transition and gaps in operational guidelines and training.
  • To build a community for bottom-up engagement, awareness raising, and exchange across stakeholders of the European Research Area (ERA) and beyond about environmental and climate ethics for research ethics and integrity frameworks, informing identification and analysis of issues and development of guidelines and recommendations.
  • To produce and/or complement operational ethics & integrity guidelines, including the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, & elaborate recommendations to account for environmental & climate ethics
  • To develop and implement traditional and online research ethics and integrity training programmes on climate and environmental aspects of R&I.

Relevance for RECs and ethics experts

RECs are a key target group of RE4GREEN. Guidelines, training materials, and scoping reviews will address how RECs should incorporate environmental and climate ethics into research ethics reviews and identify potential ethical issues in protocols of climate-related and environmental R&I.

Duration
February 2024 – January 2027

Website
re4green.eu

CORDIS entry
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101131706

LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/re4green-project