Research Partner

Ethical Guidance For Funded Innovation

Ethical integration has become essential in research: funding agencies like FFG and Horizon Europe increasingly require clear approaches to social alignment, responsible governance, and risk mitigation. By partnering with us, your proposal becomes stronger, more competitive, and better aligned with societal needs while avoiding ethical and legal pitfalls — an important advantage in today’s funding landscape. 

As your Ethics Partner, we bring a clear, transparent methodology that translates values and principles into concrete system requirements and supports you through the entire project — from proposal writing to execution. This structured, standards-aligned approach ensures trustworthy, compliant, and socially desirable innovations that deliver real beneficial impact.  

Why it matters

Our Research Ethics Partner service strengthens your project’s quality, competitiveness, and trustworthiness by integrating values, ethics, and compliance from proposal to implementation

Four Core Components

Understand the Project

We get to know your goals, context, and stakeholders to build a solid ethical foundation

Build a Strong Proposal

We develop or refine ethical, social, and governance work packages that boost proposal quality and competitiveness

Guide Ethical Implementation

We translate values and principles into concrete system requirements and support responsible codesign throughout the project

Ensure High Impact Delivery

We accompany execution with continuous ethical analysis, risk mitigation, and expert input to ensure trustworthy outcomes

Why Choose Us?

Proven Expertise in Ethics for Funded Research

We strengthen your proposal with ethical, social, and governance components increasingly required by FFG, Horizon Europe, and other funding agencies.

You benefit from a sound, reviewed process that translates values and principles into concrete system requirements — ensuring ethical, socially aligned, and compliant innovation.

We support you through the entire project lifecycle — from drafting work packages to leading ethics tasks in execution — ensuring cooperation, mutual learning, and beneficial impact results.

Our approach naturally aligns your project with relevant laws, like the EU AI Act, human‑centered standards, and requirements such as GDPR — helping you avoid risks and deliver responsible innovation. 

Testimonials

‘Working with innovethic allows us to create perfect synergies between science and ethical aspects, which overall increases the chances of successful technology transfer and brings innovations closer to society. Thank you for the many valuable inputs!’ 

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Dr. Mathias Drexler
CEO, acib GmbH

innovethic supports us in understanding ethical issues not just as a marginal topic, but as an integral part of our research work. Thanks to their expertise, we are able to design technological innovations responsibly – in the interests of patients, society and all stakeholders involved.’ 

Portrait of Dr. Michael Giretzlehner​.
Dr. Michael Giretzlehner
Head of Research Department Medical

‘With innovethic, we have a knowledgeable and supportive partner in our funded innovation project who helps us address ethical and legal challenges with clarity and confidence.’

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Patrick Pichler
Founder and CEO of Creative Data

Let’s Shape Responsible Research Together

Reach out and we’ll guide you from early concept to successful project delivery