Ethics Committee for Research Activities

The ethics committee of FH Campus Wien is responsible for an ethical discourse on ensuring good scientific practice and advises on research ethics issues as well as on specific legal and data protection principles.

The committee covers the full range of disciplines within the University of Applied Sciences and ensures the ethical integrity of research projects across all disciplines.

Our main fields of activity

  • Review and approval of research projects based on ethical criteria

  • Identification of potentially ethically relevant issues in research

  • Integration of research ethics into the research design

  • Advice on research ethics issues and specific legal and data protection principles

  • Support for compliance with research ethics guidelines in research projects

    The rules of good scientific practice ensure responsible, honest, transparent and fair behavior by researchers and teachers within the scientific community. FH Campus Wien takes scientific integrity – i.e. the quality and trustworthiness of science and its results – very seriously.

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    This includes compliance with the rules of research ethics, which prevent that harm be caused to people, as well as to animate and inanimate nature, by research itself or by the use of research results.

    The Ethics Committee of FH Campus Wien is guided by internationally recognized ethical guidelines, such as

    You will find the guidelines and our internal regulations as PDF files for download on our submission platform.

    Chairperson

    KommR. OStR. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Schnider

    Dr.in Maria Fürstaller (deputy)
    FH-Prof.in Univ.Doz.in Dr.in Ines Swoboda (deputy)

    the Vice Rector for Research and Development

    FH-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Elisabeth Haslinger-Baumann, DGKP

    FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Heimo Sandtner, Rektor (deputy)

    one member from the council

    FH-Prof.in Mag.a Verena Musil, MSc MBA

    Gerhard Eder, MSc MSc (deputy)

    from the Department Applied Life Sciences

    FH-Prof.in Univ.Doz.in Dr.in Ines Swoboda

    FH-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Alexandra Graf (deputy)

    from the Department Building and Design

    FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Manfred Steiner

    FH-Prof. DI Dr.techn. Markus Vill (deputy)

    from the Department Health Sciences

    Mag. Dr. Peter Putz

    FH-Prof.in Kerstin Plessl-Walder, PhD (deputy)

    from the Department Applied Nursing Science

    Cornelia Feichtinger, BSc BSc MSc

    Tamara Großbichler, BScN MA (deputy)

    from the Department Engineering

    Dr.in rer.nat. Andrea Mizelli-Ojdanic, MSc

    Leon Freudenthaler, BSc MSc (deputy)

    from the Department Social Work

    Mag.a Dr.in Maria Fürstaller

    Mag.a Nina Hover-Reisner (deputy)

    from the Department Administration, Economics, Security and Politics

    Mag. Dr. Mario Steyer

    Daniel Oblak, Msc (WU) (deputy)

    a data protection officer

    DIin (FH) Daniela Janko

    Mag. Markus Dörfler (deputy)

    external experts

    Mag.a Monika Schichl-Zach, MA

    Mag.a Anna Gruböck (deputy)

    Dr. Roland Frank

    Mag.a Anita Kavalirek

    Mag.a Verena Wallquist (deputy)

    KommR. OStR. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Schnider

    Dozent (PD) Dr. Andreas Klein (deputy)

     

    Submission platform

    On our platform, you can find detailed information about the cases in which an application is required, what to look out for when submitting an application and how the application and assessment process works. You will also find all relevant documents there. In order to submit a project, it is necessary to create a free user account.

    An assessment can only take place after an ethics application has been submitted. Once the review has been completed, the Ethics Committee decides whether to issue a vote (see Section 4 of the internal regulations).

    Please note the respective submission deadlines for the individual review meetings.


     The following applications CANNOT be processed by the Ethics Committee of FH Campus Wien:

    • Studies that fall under the Medical Devices Act (MPG) and the Medicinal Products Act (AMG).
      If you are pursuing a research project in this area, please get in touch with the contact person in the relevant department (members).
    • Applications for research projects that deal with the manipulation of animals or the killing of animals for the purpose of organ and tissue removal as well as the creation and use of transgenic animals.

    Please note:

    • The Ethics Committee of FH Campus Wien is open for external applications (as of Feb 2024).
    • from 2025 on, external applications will be subject to a fee
     

    Review meetings and submission deadlines

    • Meeting on September 17, 2024
      End of the submission deadline August 20, 2024

    • Meeting on October 22, 2024
      End of the submission deadline September 16, 2024

    • Meeting on November 19, 2024
      End of submission deadline October 26, 2024

    • Meeting on December 17, 2024
      End of the submission deadline November 20, 2024

    • Meeting on February 18, 2025
      End of the submission deadline January 21, 2025

      • Meeting on April 22, 2025
        End of submission deadline March 25, 2025

      • Meeting from27. May 2025
        End of the submission deadline April 29, 2025

      • Meeting on June 24, 2025
        End of submission deadline May 31, 2025

      • Submissions July to August:
        Applications can also be submitted during the period without meetings (June to August).
        Please note, however, that it may take longer to process applications during this period.

      Ethics consultation

      The ethics committee offers an online consultation hour every 1st Tuesday of the month from 9.00 - 10.00 a.m. (except during non-teaching periods). Should you have any queries, you can simply join the zoom meeting on one of the dates listed below. Registration is not required.

      Dates

      January 9, 2024, March 5, 2024, April 2, 2024, May 7, 2024, June 4, 2024,
      September 3, 2024, October 1, 2024, November 5, 2024, December 3, 2024

      Contact

      Coordination

      Dr. Philip Waldner, BA MA
      Iryna Tomkovych, Bakk. phil.


      ethik@fh-campuswien.ac.at 
      +43 1 606 68 77- 1532