BASEC – Submission of Research Projects to Swiss Ethics Committees

News

31.01.2025

The notification of study end is now done completely through the application forms. The Word-form “Notification of the completion of a clinical trial (ClinO), a clinical trial of medical device (ClinO-MD) or of a research project (HRO) to the Ethics Committee” should no longer be used.
The notification is done in the “Section for subsequent notifications and submissions” on screen 6. Lead-EC.
Please refer to FAQ “Submission of end of study (clinical trial or research project) to the ethics committee” for detailed information on the notification procedure.

17.10.2025

Possible problems with clinicaltrials.gov: alternative trial registries. Additional information can be found here.

14.7.2025

Submissions through the Medical Device form and the Research Project Application form of type clinical, involving persons or further use now have to answer a new question about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The question on Screen 2 is multiple choice and must also be answered in updates/resubmissions of existing submissions.

2.6.2025

The platform BASEC now has mandatory double-opt-in for submission accounts. If you see a message after logging in, with a button to request an email confirmation, please click the button and use the link sent via email to confirm your account's email.

Earlier news are available on swissethics.ch (DE, FR, IT, EN).

Read before you start:

• This site is intended to optimize the submission process by guiding you in the description of your project throughout several preformatted screens.
• A short guide how to use BASEC is available here. Additionally, each screen of the submission forms contains specific instructions.
• Your project is saved automatically and you may return to and work on it again before submitting; Draft projects that were never submitted will be deleted after 6 months of inactivity.
• Backup and archive your projects on your own IT infrastructure. BASEC is not designed and not intended to be an electronic filing system (archive) for your projects.
• Reread your project carefully before submitting it. Keep in mind that once your project is submitted, the evaluation begins.
• Once you have submitted a new project you will receive an email with a unique BASEC ID number for your project. This will confirm you that your project has been received by the ethics committee and the evaluation has started. You will receive a second email within 7 days of submission, once the formal check is completed.
• For quality assurance purposes, all ethics committees in Switzerland can view and consult the submitted project in BASEC. Should you oppose to that, please contact swissethics at info@swissethics.ch before you submit the project.
• If you need to send an urgent update and your project is currently locked, please contact the ethics committee by email, phone or through the support form in the web-portal. (see also this FAQ-entry).

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