D8.8 - Standardisation, IPR management and Ethics in iHelp I
Creators: name: Irina Nicolae
name: Gabriel Danciu
name: Ilie Iulia
name: George Manias
name: Giulio Pagliari
name: Andrea Damiani
name: Savino Mariachiara
name: Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis
name: Salvador Garcia Torrens
name: Juan Ramon Berenguer
name: Borja Llobell Crespo
name: Pencho Stefanov
name: Oscar Garcia Perales
name: Laura Pucci
name: Fabio Melillo
name: Maritini Kalogerini
name: Spyros Papafragkos
name: Rostislav Kostadinov
name: Dilyana Vicheva
name: Tanja Tomson
name: Lars Gustafsson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Standardisation
Open Source
Data Governance
Project Management

description: This report is the first from a deliverable series of two deliverables, i.e, D8.8 – “Standardisation, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management and Ethics in iHelp I” due on M24, and D8.9 – “Standardisation, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management and Ethics in iHelp II” due on M36, and will detail all engagement with standardisation bodies or similar fora and the corresponding potential contributions for standardisation, IPR management and consideration for relevant ethical principles.In Section 2 of this deliverable, we present the standards landscape that are relevant to iHelp, the motivations that lead to using these standards, and what are the standardization activities performed within the project. Also, as stated by the EU data governance act, which is a regulatory framework that facilitates the way companies and public institutions exchange data, one of the provision of data intermediation services include: “the obligation of interoperability with other data intermediation services, inter alia, by means of commonly used open standards”.

Taking this into consideration, Section 3 treats the concept of open-source developments in iHelp, we identified the open-source libraries used in the project, the open-source products created in this project as well as the innovations that are subject to public dissemination. Exploiting open source contributes to the economic growth and provides more rapid advancements with transparent and equal access for the benefit of researchers, healthcare professionals, and citizens.

On the other side, Intellectual Property (IP) is one of the most important assets of any company or consortium. Managing this asset necessitates time, effort, and money, and its important because it protects the ideas, the new discoveries. The management of intellectual properties is depicted in Section 4, where we identify the assets within the iHelp project, the access rights issue, the protection, and exploitation of these assets.

The management of projects from scientific area has certain requirements that, when applied, assure the fulfilment of the ethical principles. In Section 5, we identified the potential ethical issues in pilots, the ethic concept in AI research, especially in establishing the trustworthiness of an AI system.

Finally, in Section 6, we present the conclusions from this deliverable and potential other investigation for the future in the areas covered in this document.

High priority is given to the appropriate protection and exploitation of data and results in the various work packages (WPs) of the project. It is important to note that the purpose of the current report is to give a general overview of the guiding principles and key components of IPR that will be applied by the consortium partners to both newly generated results and the implemented open-source solutions. It also addresses how and when to convey results in an honest and ethical manner. It does not, however, replace any existing agreements, such as the Consortium Agreement (CA), Grant Agreement (GA), or any EU project implementation and documentation guidelines. In particular, the CA serves as a primary reference document on data management concerns, outlining the rights and responsibilities of all beneficiaries about the following matters: dissemination of project results and data; ownership of results; protection of results; and access rights.