Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee

Activities

The President of the Board of Governors, the Board of Governors, the Academic Council, the Scientific Council and the Scientific Integrity and Professional Conduct representatives may refer matters to the Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee. Any person confronted with a situation raising questions of ethics, professional conduct or scientific integrity may also refer matters to the Committee.
It may itself decide to take up a matter raising questions of ethics, professional conduct or scientific integrity.
The Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee shall determine, for each matter, whether or not it may be made public.


 

Documents

You will find here the list of documents related to the committee's mandate:
 

• European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers
• Charte française de déontologie des métiers de la recherche (French Charter of Ethics in Research)
• Charte de déontologie et d'intégrité scientifique de l'ANR (French National Research Agency (ANR) Charter of Ethics and Scientific Integrity)
• Charte déontologique du CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Charter of Ethics)

Procedures

Procedure for referring cases to the committee and for processing them

In the event of a situation identified by a staff member, a user or the committee: issues regarding plagiarism / intellectual property, scientific integrity, conflict of interest etc.
 

• Step 1: Referral to the committee
  • Contact directly or by e-mail (member's address or generic address: comite.ethique.deontologie@ec-nantes.fr)
• Step 2: First meeting with the individual(s) who referred the matter to the committee
• Step 3: Meeting with the other people involved in the case
• Step 4: Mediation (internal)
• Step 5: Meeting with the protagonists and proposed solution
• Step 6: External consultation (if necessary)

Events

Interventions for PhD students, researchers, students etc.
Here you will find the list of the actions implemented over time.
 

• See this page (in French, reserved for staff) the ethics training course for PhD students provided on 1 July 2021 by Laurent Stainier as part of the Ecole des docteurs Bretagne Loire, supplemented by presentations by Pierrick Guégan (CRED) and Jérémy Ohana (LHEEA - Ocean Tanks).