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 2016Since 2017, the Research Ethics Committee in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (CEP-CHS/Unicamp) has had its operating license approved by the National Research Ethics Body (INAEP).
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 the registration of the CEP-CHS/Unicamp's operating license was approved by INAEP, its operations took place on the premises of FCM. However, its activities did not begin independently in the first semester of 2017. Initially, research with methodologies specific to the Humanities and Social Sciences was still evaluated by the CHS subcommittee of CEP 5404, 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, the CEP-CHS/Unicamp is linked to INAEP and internally to the Pro-Rectorate for Research (PRP) of Unicamp. Although located in the DETIC Building, in accordance with Operational Standard 001 of 2013 (BRAZIL, 2013), it has autonomy, that is, it is not subordinate 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: