T
he 1st of September and the start of the 2022/23 academic year signify the beginning of a new three-year project (2022-2025) led by UCLan Cyprus, under the prestigious and highly competitive Horizon Europe programme of the European Union. The Union’s main funding programme for research and innovation.
As Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, announced in 2021, fast-reaction systems to respond to emerging medical threats are urgently needed. Such systems are likely to face significant ethics and integrity challenges.
The PREPARED project will tackle this challenge and develop a range of tools for the promotion of high levels of ethics and integrity during accelerated research
PREPARED stands for ‘Pro-active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework’, and the project’s objective is to develop an ethics and integrity framework to support rapid and effective research during global crises. Bringing together 16 partner teams from three continents, project outputs include (i) an interdisciplinary, accessible, and jargon-free code of conduct for research during global crises, (ii) ‘how to’ guidelines to support the needs of research teams, and (iii) engaging training and capacity building materials, to be disseminated across the Globe. This will be achieved through the project’s extensive network of 14 advisors, coming from five continents. The majority of team leads are women, and the consortium will be supported by two European artists and an African photographer and documentary maker.
UCLan Cyprus is proud to lead this global effort and be part of the high-profile group of partners and advisors, including leading think tanks, grassroots civil society organisations, and international organisations, such as UNESCO and the World Health Organisation (WHO). At the same time, having its base in Cyprus, the project constitutes a new fundamental threshold for research and innovation on the island on a topic of great significance world-wide, and brings new opportunities for Cyprus-based academics to share their expertise while tackling challenges of a truly global nature.
For inquiries, please contact the project Co-ordinator Prof. Doris Schroeder (dschroeder@uclan.ac.uk) or the Head of the Law School, Prof. Stéphanie Laulhé-Shaelou (SLaulhe-Shaelou@uclan.ac.uk).
