Tasks
- Conducting of ethics reviews and ethics reporting for approved research projects or research projects approved subject to a positive ethics review as well as ethics monitoring at the applicant's request.
- Reviews are conducted under consideration of the provisions of the respective institution requesting the ethics report/ethics monitoring.
Reviews
The Ethics Board convenes at the applicant's request or prior to a pending report.
Submission deadlines
There are four submission deadlines per year, each of which is two weeks after the meeting of the doctoral committee (Promotionsausschuss).
For winter semester 2025/26: 10.11.2025; 23.02.2026
For summer semester 2026: 04.05.2026; 13.07.2026
Please submit your application via email to
ethics_boardFB03@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
Please enter the following text in the subject line: “Application for an Ethics Review".
Attachments should not exceed 3 MB.
Eligible to apply are members of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In the case of theses, the supervising professor is responsible for submitting the application.
Link to the application form
Application form German / English
