1.Monitoring and evaluation of ethical issues and corrective interventions
Each partner country will form a National Advisory Board for ethical issues consisted from three members: a representative from the national local institution responsible for the project and two independent experts on CAN issues. Each National Advisory Board will be responsible for: a) reviewing the project and processes involved before commencing any research, b) monitoring ethical issues during the whole period of research execution and provide corrective interventions, if necessary, c) providing written ethic’s reports every 10 months of the project and sending it to the Central Independent Advisory Board for ethical issues.
A Central Independent Advisory Board for ethical issues will also be formed, to be consisted of five members: Prof. Kevin Brown, Head of W.H.O.’s Collaborating Centre for Child Care and Protection, a representative of Innocenti Institute and three independent experts with documented experience on CAN research. The Central Independent Advisory Board for ethical issues will be responsible for: a) evaluating the annual reports on ethical issues to be produced by National Independent Advisory Boards for ethical issues and provide corrective interventions, if necessary, b) producing an annual report on ethical issues based on national reports on ethical issues, and send it to the European Commission, and c) overly supervising the project’s implementation in respect of ethical aspects.
2. Ethical Committee Review
Each partner will submit the research protocol for ethical review to the respective Ethical Committee of the participating Organizations (if existent) or to an equivalent Ethical Committee of his/her country, and to the Central Independent Advisory Board for Ethical issues. In addition to that, as the research design requests the collection of data in classroom settings, each partner will have to follow the National regulations in order to obtain permission to enter schools. An authorized copy of the approval obtained in each partner country will be sent to the Central Independent Advisory Board for ethical issues, who will send the authorized copies of all national approvals to the European Commission.
3. Informed Consent
Three informed consents will be handed to the participants: a) the parent will sign a consent form for his/her child’s participation in the study, b) the parent will sign a consent form for his/her own participation in the study, and c) the child will also give his/her assent after the provision of age-appropriate information by the researchers. The Parent Informed Consent form will be accompanied by an information sheet containing the project’s details, and the name and the address of the responsible scientist in each partner country. A brief presentation of the rationale and the nature of the study will be given to the children by researchers in the classrooms.
Informed Consent and Parent Information Sheet as well as Child Assent Form presented in this proposal are written in English. Therefore, they should be considered as Exemplars to be translated, for the production of the respectful documents that will be written in the participating countries’ official languages.
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