CEP-CHS/Unicamp's mission is to apply protection mechanisms to research participants, research teams and the State University of Campinas based on the preponderant ethical appreciation of research protocols with methodologies specific to the Humanities and Social Sciences.
From the approval of the CNS Resolution No. 510 of 2016, since 2017, the Ethics Committee for Research in Human and Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (CEP-CHS/Unicamp) has had its operating record approved by the National Commission for Ethics in Research (Conep).
Thus, Unicamp has three ethics committees for research involving human beings and/or identifiable data:
- I. CEP 5404, located in the DETIC Building (CCUE);
- II. CEP 5418, headquartered at the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba (FOP);
- III. CEP-CHS 8142, located in the DETIC Building (CCUEC).
After approval of CEP-CHS/Unicamp's operating registration by Conep, the operation took place on the premises of FCM. However, its activities did not start independently in the first half of 2017. Initially, research with methodologies specific to Human and Social Sciences was still appreciated by the CEP 5404 CHS subcommittee, without independent meetings.
The CEP-CHS/Unicamp is headquartered in the DETIC Building (CCUEC) – Unicamp, with opening hours from Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 12 pm and from 13:30 pm to 17:30 pm. However, opening hours are in the afternoon. The CEP-CHS/Unicamp has an administrative staff member and holds 11 (eleven) regular meetings annually.
Externally, CEP-CHS/Unicamp is linked to Conep and internally to the Pro-Rectory of Research (PRP) of Unicamp. Although headquartered in the DETIC Building, in accordance with Operational Standard 001 of 2013 (BRASIL, 2013), it has autonomy, that is, there is no subordination to DETIC.
History available in the text REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE ORIGINS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ETHICS IN RESEARCH IN THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS authored by Prof. Dr. Sandra Fernandes Leite. Available from page 111 in the e-book “Ethics and Research in Education: Subsidies” of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPEd) of 2021: