SIENNA D5.1: Report documenting elements to open and complement operational guidelines for research ethics committees

Research ethics committees (RECs) are well established to review health-related research projects. Nowadays, ethical assessments by RECs are requested not only for research projects in this field, but also beyond. However, standards and procedures for RECs outside the health-related research fields are still unclear or vague. Therefore, the question arises if and to what extent guidance documents and guidelines for RECs from the health-related field could be helpful to review research projects in other fields. In this report this question was analysed with a special focus on ethical reviews of research projects in the field emerging technologies.