Why this training session
Federated research infrastructures must address technical concerns, but they also raise ethical issues. To ensure that the development of the ENVRI-Hub meets the highest ethical standards and the applicable EU, international and national law on ethical principles, the ENVRI-Hub NEXT project ran an ethical assessment twice: halfway through and by the end of the project.
This ENVRI-Hub NEXT training webinar was organised on 3 September 2026 as follow-up of the first session: "Ethical Challenges in the ENVRI-Hub design: AI, Data Stewardship and User Rights".
In this second webinar, our ethics experts clarify the theoretical framework around data sovereignty, unveil the tension between open science and data dual use, and offer concrete measures for ethical data management.
Target audience
Environmental scientists at any career stage, environmental research infrastructure operators, data protection officers, data stewards, and research project managers.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of GDPR requirements, FAIR research data management practices, and responsible research principles in environmental science.
Learning objectives
- Define data sovereignty in opposition to data ownership;
- Define dual-use research;
- List ethical, ecological and security challenges posed by data aggregation in federated research infrastructures;
- Identify prevention and mitigation measures against dual-use research.
Trainer panel
- Professor Stavroula Tsinorema, Modern & Contemporary Philosophy and Bioethics, Director of the Joint Postgraduate Programme in Bioethics and Director of the Centre for Bioethics, University of Crete
- Dr. Louise Bezuidenhout, Senior Researcher in Open Science at CWTS - Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University
- Dr. Heikki Lihavainen, Managing Director at SIOS - Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System
