Due to the (upcoming) Christmas break and the holidays of members of the FEtC-H, the assessment of new or revised applications will be delayed between Wednesday 14 December and Monday 9 January. Also, responses to e-mails will be delayed until after 9 January.

On Monday 12 September, the portal will not be available between 9:00 and 10:30 h, because of server maintenance.

As of this academic year (2022-2023), the Faculty Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Humanities (FETC-H) has new regulations. These regulations are more concise in comparison to the previous regulations and apply to both the Linguistics Chamber and the General Chamber. The new regulations have been brought into line with the GDPR and with…

Due to the summer recess (until 1 September) and the holidays of members of the FEtC-H, it may not be possible to assess new or revised applications during July and August. If assessment is possible, it may take longer than normal. Also, responses to e-mails (fetc-gw@uu.nl) may be delayed.

For anyone who has submitted or will submit an application to the FEtC-H: the Research Data Management Support team has published a survey on the way you handle privacy-sensitive data in your research. Please help them: they will then be able to support you even better! It takes about 10 minutes.

Three documents regarding GDPR and informed consent have recently been published and updated on the  FEtC-H website: Brief instructions on Ethics and GDPR (version 1.0, Dec 2021) A brief roadmap on Informed Consent (version 1.0, Dec 2021) Guidelines on Informed Consent (version 1.1, Nov 2021) In line with these documents, new sample templates have been…

According to the policy of the Faculty of Humanities, drawing up a data management plan (DMP) for your research has been obligatory since 1 January 2021. The FEtC-H does not assess DMPs, but composing a DMP helps researchers in thinking about: exactly what data to collect; how to process these data; where to store them;…

You will now also find information on the Faculty Ethics Assessment Committee Humanities (FEtC-H) on intranet under ‘Research, Rules and legislation’. To simplify applications and thus speed up the process, this intranet page now also contains new templates for the informed consent documents. The text of these documents now complies with the GDPR (AVG). For…