LETHICA will implement a governance-framework based on one director and four collaborative assemblies: an Executive Committee, a Steering Committee for research and training (strategic committee) and a Scientific Counsel (external experts and internal coordinator). All members of LETHICA will also meet annually during a General Assembly.
• The Executive Committee is composed of the Coordinator, of the supervisors for each LETHICA perspective and of the scientific counsel’s coordinator.
- The EC appoints LETHICA’s coordinator
- The EC settles LETHICA’s strategy, following the advice given by the steering committee
- The EC allocates resources and arbitrates between competing uses of funds, if necessary. The EC may suggest evolutive adjustments among the research programs : cancellations, modifications, or adjunctions
- The EC assesses LETHICA’s achievements and monitors the implementation of the quality insurance system (balance sheet and annual indicators)
- The EC designs the content of the newsletter (produced and distributed by the research engineer or project manager)
- The EC supervises the elaboration and the follow-up of the LETHICTIONARY
• The Steering Committee for Research and Training is comprised of appointed representatives of each faculty/college (“composantes”), of representatives of doctoral schools, of a representative of the CEERE (European Center of Research and Studies on Ethics) or of Ethics Master-Program, of a representative of the IDIP (Institute of the Development of Innovative Pedagogy), of the supervisors for each LETHICA perspective, of appointed representatives of participating research units, and of LETHICA’s director.
- The SCRT proposes strategic orientations and alerts the executive committee to potential difficulties
- The SCRT defines the job profiles (and eventually research fields) for contracts (doctoral and postdoctoral contracts, project manager, administrative staff) ; it considers the applicants to those positions, and selects the candidates (interviews) ; it finally establishes a ranked list
- The SCRT supervises the quality insurance system (on the basis of reports by project supervisors (working in pairs) and of group members designated to handle particular “locking points” and “challenges”)
• The Scientific Counsel is comprised of external experts and of an internal coordinator and LETHICA member.
- The SC assesses the research project, taking into account its interdisciplinary dimension, its relevance to LETHICA’s four main topics and perspectives (two expert rapporteurs per project)
- The SC gives advices and ranks the projects applying for the resources allocated by the EC
