Research integrity and ethics
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Research integrity
On behalf of society, UCLouvain is the guarantor of the integrity of its researchers and provides them with respectful, impartial supervision conducive to robust, sound research development. It is the university’s responsibility to establish and make known rules in this area and implement a procedure for dealing with breaches. Thus UCLouvain has its own regulations, which apply to the whole institution, including its seven locations, and therefore to all staff carrying out scientific research, regardless of their position.
The Research Integrity Committee, an advisory and recommendatory body established by the UCLouvain Academic Council, is responsible for enforcing these regulations.
In late 2019, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Conseil Scientifique pour l'Intégrité Scientifique (CSIS) was established. The founding institutions are the Académie Royale de Belgique, the Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the French-speaking universities of Belgium, including UCLouvain, which officially recognises the CSIS as an advisory body.
UCLouvain also recognises the Conseil Supérieur d’Intégrité Scientifique, established by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, as an advisory body in this area.
Research ethics
To promote and ensure respect for ethics in research practices at the university, UCLouvain has over time established a series of structures, mainly at sector and institute level, in order to comply with the legal requirements regarding ethics committees and/or meet needs in the field.
The grid below is a summary of institutional actors.
Research project ethics: who to contact?
For advice from or approval/certification by an ethics committee
Ethics questions that cannot be answered by the above committees can be sent to ethics@uclouvain.be. These questions are dealt with by the Research Council.