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Abstract: EURECNET is a network that brings together national REC associations, networks or comparable initiatives but also other bodies relevant in the field of research involving human participants like National Ethics Councils and the European Commission's ethical review system. 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. The central objective of EURECNET as a Coordinating Action is to foster the already existing network of European REC networks (in short 'EUREC').

In particular, the contribution of EURECNET aims at five different levels:
- fostering a sustainable infrastructure for European RECs (including a statute and a secretariat) to promote exchange and cooperation and to allow for international cooperation;
- gathering information on RECs in Europe to build a basis for mutual exchange - collecting and evaluating training materials for REC members to enhance the quality of review;
- conducting capacity building to facilitate the development of national REC networks (as future partners of EUREC);
- identifying emerging ethical issues to develop common solutions for challenges posed by new technologies and scientific methodologies.

Subprogramme: Area: 5.1.1.2 Research on Ethics in science and technology Topic: SiS-2009-1.1.2.2 Networking and capacity-building activities to support ethics committees:

Project partners: Arbeitsgemeinschaft schweizerischer Forschungsethik-kommissionen (AGEK) / Kantonale Forschungsethikkommission Bern, Switzerland; Bonn University, Germany; Center of Bioethics of the Supreme Medical Council - governing body of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, Poland; Central Ethical Review Board, Sweden; Central Medical Ethics committee of Latvia, Lithuania; Comité de Protection des Personnes Sud-Est III, France; Department of Health Care Studies, University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Dutch association of Medical Research Ethics Committees, Netherlands; Institut de droit de la santé de lUniversité de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Institut de la Sante de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), France; Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics, Slovakia; Lithuanian Bioethics Committee, Lithuania; National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research, Portugal; National Tsian Hua University / Bioethics and Law Center, Taiwan; Reasearch Ethics Commitee of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland; Società Italiana di Farmacia Ospedaliera e dei Servizi Farmaceutici delle Aziende Sanitarie , Italy; Spanish Society of Clinical Pharmacology, Spain; The Association of Research Ethics Committees, United Kingdom; The National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Health Care Ethic, Finland; The National Committee for Medical and Health Care Research Ethics, Norway; The Republic of Slovenia National Medical Ethics Committee, Slovenia; , Germany; , Denmark