Practice Committee Conference 2024: Limits To Data Sharing?

Held on 19 November 2024 - 15.00-18.30

According to the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity universities and other research institutions “should allow access to … primary … data, except when this is in conflict with contractual legal obligations or current regulations on for example ethical, confidentiality or privacy matters or intellectual property rights”.

Furthermore, the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity provides that “researchers, research institutions, and organizations ensure that access to data is as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.

In line with these principles funders and journals usually impose strong requirements for researchers regarding the sharing of research data.

However, there are also legitimate limits to data sharing, for example due to concerns regarding the protection of personal information, national security or legitimate commercial interests.

This conference aims to discuss these limits and shed light on how such concerns may be respected, without imposing more limits to data sharing than strictly necessary.

Programme

15.00 – 15.20	Overview to the topic and to relevant legal and ethical rules Professor Mads Bryde Andersen Chair of the Practice Committee
15.20 – 15.40	The role of contracts to rights in data and data sharing Professor Jens Schovsbo Former chair of the Practice Committee
15.40 – 16.00	Grey zones between sharing data in academic research projects and providing military information to hostile state parties Karen Lund Petersen Head of Center, PET
16.00 – 16.15	Research Data Management at UCPH: Open vs. Closed? Susanne den Boer Beckers, UCPH Senior Adviser Research Data Management
16.15 – 16.30	GDPR issues in personal data sharing Data Protection officer Mads Tolderlund, UCPH
16.30 – 16.45	Coffee break with refreshments
16.45 – 17.15	Particular issues within different scientific fields Physics: Professor John Renner Hansen, Niels Bohr Institute Medicine: Professor emeritus Gorm Greisen, Department of Clinical Medicine Social Sciences: Associate Professor Anja Simonsen, Department of Anthropology
17.15 – 17.30	How best to share data – introduction to the FAIR principles Professor Frits Rosendaal, Chair of the LERU Policy Group for Research Integrity
17.30 – 18.00	What should be the UCPH standards of good practice for data sharing? Open discussion with the audience, moderated by the vice-chair of the Practice Committee, Professor Peter Sandøe
18.00 – 18.30	Snacks, drinks and get together

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Practice Committee Conference 2024: Limits To Data Sharing?

Programme