The CHANGER project will conclude its work with a final conference titled “Beyond procedural ethics review: building reflexive research cultures”, to be held on Thursday, 24 September 2026, in Leuven, Belgium.

The CHANGER conference will run from 09:00 to 13:00 CET (registration from 08:30), and registration is free of charge. The CHANGER conference will bring together leading experts in research ethics, governance, and policy to reflect on the outcomes of the CHANGER project and to discuss how research systems can move beyond compliance-driven ethics review toward more reflexive and responsible research cultures. The event is aimed at researchers, research ethics committee members, Framework Programme ethics appraisal scheme experts, policy-makers, and all stakeholders interested in strengthening ethical reflection and responsibility in scientific research. 

The preliminary agenda of the conference:

List of speakers, panelists and moderators (alphabetically)

• Alexei Grinbaum, Senior Scientist and Chair of the Operational Digital Ethics Committee at CEA-Saclay, France, AIOLIA Project Coordinator.
• Ana Marusic, Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine (MEFST), Croatia, CHANGER Partner.
• Cristina Chiotan, Policy Officer, European Commission (EC).
• Dirk Lanzerath, Professor, Director of German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany, irecs Project Coordinator.
• Ioannis Manos, Professor, University of Macedonia (UM), Greece, CHANGER Partner.
• Marina Markellou, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands, CHANGER Partner.
• Marjo Rauhala, Senior Advisor for Research Ethics and Integrity and Responsible Research Practices, TU Wien, Austria, CHANGER Partner.
• Matthias Kaiser, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Researc (NORSUS), Emeritus Professor, University of Bergen, Norway, CHANGER Partner.
• Pascal Borry, Professor, University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium; CHANGER Partner.
• Tina Garani-Papadatos, Professor, University of West Attica (UNIWA), Greece, CHANGER Partner.
• Vasiliki Mollaki, Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR “D”), Greece, CHANGER Coordinator.

Τhe conference will be hosted in conjunction with the EACME 2026 in Leuven. Participants to the CHANGER final conference are encouraged to consider submitting abstracts to the EACME conference (Call for Papers for EACME 2026 – deadline 1 March 2026 – more info can be found here).