Ethics committees
The ethics committees at the UVigo establish mechanisms and procedures to ensure that scientific research, experimentation, and knowledge transfer apply ethical principles and conform to current legislation and regulations.
- Coordination structure
Research ethics committee (CETIC)
The committee’s mission is to promote the culture of ethics in the university community as a whole in accordance with the international principles and standards for good governance, social responsibility, and the Sustainable Development Goals, in addition to overseeing compliance in good practice in research and investigation, ensuring scientific and academic integrity. To develop its responsibilities, the CETIC has three independent committees, the CGRB, the CEE/OH, and the CEISHMA.
Biological hazard management committee (CGRB)
The mission of the CGRB is to assess and prevent or reduce the adverse effects linked to research with biological agents to ensure proper use of facilities for workers, society, the environment, and administrations.
Animal experimentation ethics committee (CEEA/OH)
The purpose of this committee is to foster among researchers, teachers, and students the ethical use of animals for experimentation and guarantee to society and administrations the ethical use of animals.
Ethics committee for research with human beings and the environment (CEISHMA)
This committee is responsible for assessing the ethical aspects of scientific research carried out at the Universidade de Vigo that involve human beings or the environment as well as the gathering and processing of personal data that could affect fundamental rights, in compliance with current legislation.
Ethical mentoring
The Ethics Mentor is the person who heads the Services Inspectorate and is responsible for ethics at the university. The Mentor has a voice and vote in the CETIC and, as the name of the post indicates, the Mentor must watch over ethics at the Universidade de Vigo. One of the Mentor’s functions is to report on procedures relating to conduct that does not meet the necessary and required ethical standards in research.
Code of Ethics
The aim of this code is to be a guide for action that orients and supports the rights and obligations of the community of the Universidade de Vigo in the exercise of its freedom and responsibility.
- Code of Ethics of the Universidade de Vigo
- Rector's ruling, which adapts the specific administrative clauses to the provisions of the Institutional Code of Ethics of the Xunta de Galicia regional government and the administrative clauses for the implementation of the Next Generation EU funds.
Further information
Office of the Vice-Rector for Research, Transfer and Innovation
Edificio Filomena Dato
As Lagoas, Marcosende
36310 Vigo
+34 986 813 597
vicinv@uvigo.gal
Quality Area
Edificio Ernestina Otero, 3º andar
Campus universitario
36310 Vigo
+34 986 813 447
uacalidade@uvigo.gal