Common use of ETHICS AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY Clause in Contracts

ETHICS AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY. The Recipient must carry out the Projects in compliance with: - ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity) and - applicable EU, international and national law, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols. No financial support/EIT funding can be granted, within or outside the EU, for activities that are prohibited in all Member States. No financial support/EIT funding can be granted in a Member State for an activity which is forbidden in that Member State. The Recipient must pay particular attention to the principle of proportionality, the right to privacy, the right to the protection of personal data, the right to the physical and mental integrity of persons, the right to non- discrimination, the need to ensure protection of the environment and high levels of human health protection. The Recipient must ensure that the KAVA(s)/Project(s) have an exclusive focus on civil applications. The Recipient must ensure that the activities under the Projects do not: - aim at human cloning for reproductive purposes - intend to modify the genetic heritage of human beings which could make such modifications heritable (with the exception of research relating to cancer treatment of the gonads, which may be financed) - intend to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement, including by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or - lead to the destruction of human embryos (for example, for obtaining stem cells). KAVA(s)/Project(s) involving research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cells may be carried out only if KIC LE has obtained explicit approval (in writing) from the EIT. In addition, the Recipient must respect the fundamental principle of research integrity — as set out in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This implies compliance with the following principles: - reliability in ensuring the quality of research reflected in the design, the methodology, the analysis and the use of resources - honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting and communicating research in a transparent, fair and unbiased way - respect for colleagues, research participants, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage and the environment - accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organisation, for training, supervision and mentoring, and for its wider impacts and means that the Recipient must ensure that persons carrying out research tasks follow the good research practices including ensuring, where possible, openness, reproducibility and traceability and refrain from the research integrity violations described in the Code. Projects raising ethical issues must comply with the additional requirements formulated by the ethics panels (including after checks, reviews or audits; see Article 13 of the Agreement). Before starting a KAVA/Project task raising ethical issues, the Recipient must have obtained all approvals or other mandatory documents needed for implementing the KAVA/Project, notably from any (national or local) ethics committee or other bodies such as data protection authorities. The documents must be kept on file and be submitted upon request by the KIC LE to the EIT. If they are not in English, they must be submitted together with an English summary, which shows that the documents cover the action tasks in question and includes the conclusions of the committee or authority concerned (if any).

ETHICS AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY. The Recipient must carry out the Projects in compliance with: - ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity) and - applicable EU, international and national law, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols. No financial support/EIT funding can be granted, within or outside the EU, for activities that are prohibited in all Member States. No financial support/EIT funding can be granted in a Member State for an activity which is forbidden in that Member State. The Recipient must pay particular attention to the principle of proportionality, the right to privacy, the right to the protection of personal data, the right to the physical and mental integrity of persons, the right to non- non-discrimination, the need to ensure protection of the environment and high levels of human health protection. The Recipient must ensure that the KAVA(s)/Project(s) have an exclusive focus on civil applications. The Recipient must ensure that the activities under the Projects do not: - aim at human cloning for reproductive purposes - intend to modify the genetic heritage of human beings which could make such modifications heritable (with the exception of research relating to cancer treatment of the gonads, which may be financed) - intend to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement, including by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or - lead to the destruction of human embryos (for example, for obtaining stem cells). KAVA(s)/Project(s) involving research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cells may be carried out only if KIC LE has obtained explicit approval (in writing) from the EIT. In addition, the Recipient must respect the fundamental principle of research integrity — as set out in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This implies compliance with the following principles: - reliability in ensuring the quality of research reflected in the design, the methodology, the analysis and the use of resources - honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting and communicating research in a transparent, fair and unbiased way - respect for colleagues, research participants, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage and the environment - accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organisation, for training, supervision and mentoring, and for its wider impacts and means that the Recipient must ensure that persons carrying out research tasks follow the good research practices including ensuring, where possible, openness, reproducibility and traceability and refrain from the research integrity violations described in the Code. Projects raising ethical issues must comply with the additional requirements formulated by the ethics panels (including after checks, reviews or audits; see Article 13 of the Agreement). Before starting a KAVA/Project task raising ethical issues, the Recipient must have obtained all approvals or other mandatory documents needed for implementing the KAVA/Project, notably from any (national or local) ethics committee or other bodies such as data protection authorities. The documents must be kept on file and be submitted upon request by the KIC LE to the EIT. If they are not in English, they must be submitted together with an English summary, which shows that the documents cover the action tasks in question and includes the conclusions of the committee or authority concerned (if any).