The Procedure is prepared in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Science and Studies, the Guidelines for the Assessment of Compliance with Research Ethics issued by the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures of the Republic of Lithuania, the recommendations set out in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, the Statute of the Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution, and other relevant legal acts. 

The Procedure applies in the following cases:

• when conducting Research involving people and using personal data;
• conducting research involving animal testing;
• when conducting other Research, the results of which are planned to be published in a scientific journal, one of the requirements of which is to submit confirmation of compliance with research ethics.

For confirmation of compliance with research ethics in the field of medical and health sciences, researchers shall apply to a regional biomedical research ethics committee or to the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee if biomedical research is planned to be conducted in the territories assigned to more than one regional biomedical research ethics committee.

Documents

A Principal Investigator planning to conduct Research that meets the conditions specified in the Description shall submit the Request by means of the document management system by the 10th day of each month, except in July and August. 

Requests submitted after this deadline shall be assessed at the next meeting of the Committee.

The procedure for granting approval for planned research is governed by the “Procedure for Assessing Compliance with Research Ethics in Applied Research”.

The Rules of Procedure of the Committee for the Assessment of the Compliance of Applied Research with Research Ethics establish the functions, structure and procedure for organising the work of the Committee for the Assessment of the Compliance of Research with Research Ethics of Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution.

Ethics Committee

Members of the Committee for the Assessment of the Compliance of Applied Research with Research Ethics:
• Prof. dr. Egle Staniskiene, Kaunas University of Technology, School of Economics and Business;
• Kristina Adomaitiene, Head of Unit for Applied Science;
• Neringa Lisina, Head of Legal and Document Management Unit;
• dr. Zita Bauziene, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Business Management and Business Innovation Centre;
• dr. Rasa Tamulienė, Senior lecturer of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Oral Health Centre;
• dr. Jonas Cicėnas, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technologies, Department of Informatics and Media Technologies;
• dr. Ramūnas Čičelis, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Academy of Arts;
• dr. Rūta Petrauskienė, Assistant of Alytus Faculty.

Consultations are provided via email: etika.tyrimai@kaunokolegija.lt.