How to submit a research project?

Before making a request for research assessment from an Ethics Research Committee, you need to make sure that your research does not fall within the scope of a CPP ("comité de protection des personnes") under the Jardé law. This is known as protocol qualification (CER vs. CPP). As a general rule, any research involving the human person and intended to enhance medical or biological knowledge is considered to be human subject research (RIPH - "recherche impliquant la personne humaine") and must be referred to a CPP. Research involving the human person but not aimed at broadening medical or biological knowledge is not considered to be RIPH and is not legally bound to refer to a CPP.

In order to determine whether your research does indeed require submission to a CPP, you can carry out the self-qualification questionnaire from the Federation of CERs (Université de Reims). This questionnaire will provide you with an initial indication of qualification – subject to caution, however, due to the gray areas of the Jardé law.

• Should the answers refer you to a CPP, please contact the CPP of your choosing.
  The rest of this procedure does not concern you.
• If the questionnaire results refer you to a CER, you can move on to the next stage of this procedure for submission to the CER-UdL.

If in any doubt, please contact the team at CER-UdL using the following address cer-udl@universite-lyon.fr

A template is available for you to submit your research project to the CER-UdL.

Download the complete set of documents required for submission (FR)

Documents to be provided for submission to the CER-UdL

1. Research project summary | see column on the right
2. Information brief | see column on the right
3. Consent form | see column on the right
4. Compliance with the regulations on data protection | see column on the right

When you have drafted the research protocol and gathered the necessary documents, you can submit your request on the dedicated CER-UdL platform.

Submit a project file to CER-UdL

Any incomplete requests will not be reviewed in a plenary session

The project initiator may be heard in a plenary session if necessary.
Please note: once requested, the research cannot begin without the agreement of the Research Ethics Committee, and therefore before having followed the submission protocol.

All CER-UdL plenary sessions are full for the 2023/24 academic year.