ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses mainly on ethics and the problem of ethics in research, in the Ethics Review, as a key of the European Commission (EC)'s expression of Responsible Innovation and Research, taking the different understandings of responsibility in moral philosophy into account. If compliance with this ethical type of norms has always been somehow consubstantially committed to scientific activity, concern about ensuring the integrity of research has required more explicit and rigorous forms of institutionalization. The EC retained an intermediate and more confined situation to ensure that the projects it finances are ethically sound. The EC also finances projects that are divided between research and innovation. A number of responsible research and innovation demands are already included in the general, scientific and ethical assessment of projects in the process. In effect, in certain projects, several keys have already been taken into account.
