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SCTO Seminar series: Facts and pitfalls of observational studies - How to plan and conduct HRO projects. Registrations to the Zoom meetings are open on the SCTO website.

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Annual reports and other publications of swissethics

Updated documents

List of documents recently updated by swissethics

News

Silent Approval

11.07.2016

The following changes and documents are acknowledged by the Swiss cantonal ethics committees by means of a „Silent Approval“:

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The EC St. Gallen merges with the EC Thurgau

01.06.2016

On June 1st 2016 the ethics committee of the Canton St. Gallen merges with the ethics committee of the Canton Thurgau. The new created Ethics Committee East Switzerland (EKOS) is so responsible for the cantons SG, TG, AR and AI. The EKOS has its office in the city of St. Gallen.

BASEC

17.12.2015

swissethics wishes to thank all applicants, who already used the new web portal BASEC to submit their new projects. All submissions were received without problems.

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Human Research Act (HRA)

01.01.2014

The new legislation on research involving humans goes into effect on January 1, 2014. The legislation will affect the work and workflow of ethics committees in Switzerland in the following ways:

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