Please use our documents for the submission (which comply with the requirements and guidelines of the German Psychological Society):

• initial proposal, we recommend using the following document: full proposal (proposal in German/ general information for participants und declaration of consent in English
• NEW: Alternatively, a short proposal (application including participant information and declaration of consent) can be submitted as an initial application under the following conditions: If none of the ‘correct/not correct’ questions are answered with ‘not correct’, this short questionnaire can be submitted as a short proposal. Then please do not submit an additional full application.
• for subsequent proposals with the same methods, please use the new short proposal (short proposal incl. participant information and declaration of consent) with reference (Drs. no.) to the initial proposal.

Please number the pages of the document completely, compress the file and save it as a PDF file using OCR, denoting as follows: Name_Year_Month (e.g. Smith_2024_02). Please make sure that the (compressed) applications incl. attachments are still readable in PDF format.

Please use the documents provided for the test person details and declaration of consent in their current form, and change as little as possible in the standard wording. Please bear in mind that if the data protection passages are altered, their effect may no longer be in conformity with the Lower Saxony Data Protection Act.

Information on the anonymisation and pseudonymisation of data can also be found here. 

Applications for the assessment of research projects on humans should be sent digitally to the joint administration office of the two ethics commissions using the documents provided (please note the deadlines):