CoCirculation3 fellows and mentors must respect fundamental ethical principles, including those reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the relevant ethical rules of Horizon Europe. 

Applicants will be asked in the proposal summary form to declare whether their proposed research does deal with the research areas in the ethical issues table that will be included in the proposal template. Proposals that have not filled the ethical issues table will be rejected in the eligibility check phase. In this table, applicants must declare whether any of the activities specified will be conducted during the lifetime of the project. Even if the applicants think that ethical approval is not needed, experts may still decide that ethical committee approval is needed.

Applicants wishing to carry out research that requires ethical approval need to address these issues in their proposal, and describe how they propose to deal with these ethical issues. All eligible proposals will be sent to the Ethical Committee (EC). The EC will evaluate which applicants /proposals need to provide an official approval letter form the ethical committee of the host organization. If the hosting institution of the researcher does not have its own ethics committee, the researcher is requested to obtain the approval of the geographically closest ethical committee. If any ethical approvals must be obtained, the fellow must obtain and present these to TÜBİTAK prior to the fellow starting the work for which the approval is required.