Projects and networking

EUREC (European Network of Research Ethics Committees).

EUREC is a network that brings together already existing national Research Ethics Committees (RECs) associations, networks or comparable initiatives on the European level. The network promotes capacity building and assistance for local RECs to cooperate in the EU European Research Area. As an umbrella organization the network interlinks European RECs with other bodies relevant in the field of research involving human participants like the European Commission's ethical review system and the European Medical Association (EMA). EUREC cooperates with organizations that support research ethics. Such a network forms the infrastructural basis to promote awareness of specific working practices of RECs across Europe, to enhance the shared knowledge base of European RECs, to support coherent reviews and opinions and to meet new challenges and emerging ethical issues. EUREC has been founded in 2005. EUREC Inc. is listed in the register of associations since 2012.

PAST PROJECTS

• EURECNET
• BioTethed: Biotechnology Ethics
• Creation of the Web Site of the Lithuanian National Committee on Biomedical Ethics, 1999-2000
• Patients’ Rights in Lithuania: Situation Analysis and Community Empowerment, 2001-2002 
• Teaching Patients’ Rights at School, 2002 

BALTIC RESEARCH ETHICS NETWORK

• The 3rd Baltic RECs Seminar, May 13-14, 2011, Lithuania, Vilnius
• The 2nd Baltic RECs Seminar, May 9-10, 2008, Latvia, Riga
• The 1st Baltic RECs Seminar, April 7-8, 2006, Estonia, Otepa