D7.3 - Ethics protocol and equality management plan

The deliverable sets forth the ethics protocol and equality management plan for research ethics within the Firelogue project. It provides an outline of the ethics and equality guidelines, legal considerations, and standards. Building from these, it describes a general framework for partners to follow throughout the course of the project.
It continues by describing the research activities with stakeholders to which the framework applies. It describes the activities’ purposes, and who would be involved, how they will be recruited, and how partners will aim at representativeness, inclusivity, and equality within these activities.
It then presents ethics and data protection actions and measures the consortium will take to ensure compliance with the framework, and with scientific integrity and responsible research activities in general. These include informed consent procedures and forms, research integrity compliance, ethics approvals, as well as management structures for the general ethics monitoring of project activities. It follows with what personal data will be gathered as part of this, as well as personal data protection needs and procedures, including data minimisation, anonymisation and pseudonymisation, and organisational and technical measures. It also specifically articulates a plan to ensure gender equality within the project.
This protocol and management plan is active within the project. All issues will be continuously monitored and any new issues that arise will be documented for future reporting. However, it should be noted that it is subject to modifications in order to address new concerns that arise as the project’s trajectory is further elaborated and activity plans are completed.