Ethics Board

In June 2024, the Ethics Board for the project submitted its first periodic report. The second periodic report was submitted in June 2025.

Ethical Guidelines

Compliance with ethical standards is becoming increasingly important in scientific practice, and various parties within the scientific research community drive this development. Universities and individual scientists, associations and other institutes are establishing regulations and ethics advisory boards. Most scientific journals require that submitted research has achieved ethical approval before an article can be accepted for publication.

To adequately meet these challenges, the project adopted the following ethical guidelines, to which all individual researchers must subscribe. The guidelines are intended to provide a practical framework to guide researchers and their associates in their decisions before, during, and after carrying out work, both internationally and locally. They are informed by a range of important contributions to research ethics, which have found their way into documents such as the Declaration of Helsinki, the various codes of conduct of large professional and research associations, and a steadily growing number of statements drawn up by indigenous rights groups.