On 19 and 20 May 2025, a working meeting of the CHANGER project was held in Palácio dos Melos, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in the context of the CHANGER Pilot Workshops.

This meeting, which brought together experts in the area of ​​research ethics (university researchers and members of Ethics Committees), aimed to present the project and the review methodologies in terms of research ethics. Through a practical exercise, participants had the opportunity to reflect on the work developed by the ethics committees, fostering rich dialogue and mutual learning.

Over the course of the two days, the meeting sparked significant interest in the tools and approaches being developed within the CHANGER framework, reinforcing the project’s relevance and potential impact in advancing ethical standards in academic research.

This meeting has been conducted in the frame of the CHANGER Pilot Workshops. As part of WP3, CHANGER develops innovative approaches and tools designed to integrate ethics-by-design principles into research processes, while embedding respect for human rights at every stage. These tools aim to enhance the consistency, quality, and efficiency of current ethics review mechanisms, and, consequently, the quality of research. The proposed methodologies have been tested and refined through pilot workshops conducted across multiple Research Ethics Committees (RECs) spanning diverse regions of Europe, from North to South and East to West.