Support for ethical international collaborations
Karolinska Institutet’s ethical guidelines for international collaborations are supported by a number of internal and external policy documents, regulations, guidelines, and other resources related to ethical issues. Below you will find references and links to the areas covered by the ethical guidelines.
Internal documents
Discrimination, harassment and victimization
Equal opportunities at KI
Advice for students who feel harassed or discriminated against
Ethical review and documentation
- Self assessment form for animal testing outside EU, hosted by the KI Animal Welfare body.
- Guidelines for research
- CODEX – rules and guidelines for research - previously coordinated by Swedish Research Council together with Uppsala University, now operated solely by the Centre for research ethics and bioethics Uppsala University.
- Guidelines on ethical principles for human research outside Sweden
Corrupt practices
Risk assessment
KI offers a tool in form of a checklist for risk assessment of international collaborations.
Conflict of interest (COI)
Guidelines on conflict of interest (COI)
International documents
Discrimination, harassment and victimisation
- UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel
Ethical Review and documentation
- World Medical Association Declaration of Rancho Mirage on Medical Education
- WMA International Code of Medical Ethics
- WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects
- WMA Declaration of Taipei - Research on Health Databases, Big Data and Biobanks
- UNESCO Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
- UNESCO International Declaration on Human Genetic Data
- UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights