Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27th, 2016 , on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) has a significant impact on the field of research.

At the national level, the approval of Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5th on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights has opened up new avenues for the processing of data for scientific and research purposes. Thus, its Seventeenth Additional Provision, on the processing of health data, has defined a new framework in Spain for biomedical research. This regulation incorporates provisions of particularly relevant significance for health research, such as pseudonymisation - a technique widely used in health research - and the issues raised by anonymisation, by the protection of personal data by design and by default, as well as by data protection impact analysis.

Proper implementation of the above-mentioned regulatory framework requires an understanding of research needs by all sectors involved, not only by researchers, but also by the managers of the research projects in which they are framed - and not only at national level, nor, of course, only by the public sector. And this understanding is bidirectional: if we want to achieve quality research, it is essential to integrate regulatory compliance, to comply with the mandatory requirements and, in the field of privacy, to guarantee, ultimately, the security of the information handled. But properly complying with data protection rules requires understanding the real needs of the environment they are intended to regulate and that they do not hinder scientific development. It is therefore essential to find spaces for the shared construction of knowledge.

Each of the sessions of the Conference aims to highlight the needs of each of the roles in the university research ecosystem and at the same time to identify the lines of interaction that allow the construction of a functional management model that guarantees the objective of data protection by design and by default.

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SPEAKERS

CONFERENCE

Opening

Francisco Javier Palao, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València; Joaquín Aldás-Manzano, Vice-Principal for Strategy, Quality and Information Technologies of the Universitat de València; Gabriel López Serrano, Director d'Assumptes Reguladors per a Microsoft Ibèrica.

Introduction to the Conference: Notes for discussion

Ricard Martínez, Director of the Privacy and Digital Transformation Chair of the Universitat de València.

Session 1: What do our researchers need?

Josep Redón, Full Professor at the Universitat de València, Faculty of Medicine; Jon Ander Gómez Adrian, Tenured Professor of the Universitat Politècnica de València, School of Computer Science; José Pavía, Full Professor at the Universitat de València, Faculty of Economics.
Moderated by: Óscar Zurriaga Lloréns, General Directorate for Research, Innovation, Technology and Quality, Department of Universal Health and Public Health.

Session 2: What do our managers need?

Ana Ferrer Albero, Head of International Programmes, INCLIVA Foundation; M. Paz Ruiz Sancho, International R&D and Innovation Unit Research & Innovation Service, Universitat de València; María Dolores Blanco, Head of the R&D&I Contracted Section, Universitat de València.
Moderated by: Mónica Arenas Ramiro, Data Protection Delegate, University of Alcalá.

Session 3: Security policies and IT resourcing: the commitment of researchers and organisations

José Antonio Rubio Blanco, CISO at Rey Juan Carlos University; Juan Camarillo Casado, Technical Director for the Digital University of the University of Seville; Andrés Javier Prado Domínguez, Director of the ICT Area. University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Moderated by: Fuensanta Domenech, Director of the Information Systems Service of the Universitat de València.

Session 4: The role of research ethics committees

Vicente Bellver Capella, Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Universitat de València; María Jesús Marcos Muñoz, Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Ethics Committee of the University of the Basque Country; Pedro Jesús Pérez Zafrilla, President of the Ethics and Human Research Section of the Ethics Committee in Experimental Research of the Universitat de València.
Moderated by: Mónica Arenas Ramiro, Data Protection Delegate, University of Alcalá.

Session 5: Private sector requirements for university research contracting. Special consideration of biomedical research

Amelia Martín Uranga, Head of the Spanish Innovative Medicines Platform at Farmaindustria; Mara Gómez Martínez, Legal Manager of Regulation and Privacy of Telefónica S.A.; Jordi Nin, BBVA Data Strategy & Data Science Innovation; Gabriel López Serrano, Director of Regulatory Affairs for Microsoft Ibérica.
Moderated by: Ricard Martínez, Director of the Privacy and Digital Transformation Chair of the Universitat de València.

Session 6: Communicating the research

Carolina Moreno-Castro, Full Professor at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, Universitat de València; Noa de la Torre Alfaro, President of the Unió de Periodistes del País Valencià and Education and Economy journalist for the newspaper El Mundo; Adolf Beltrán, Director of Eldiario.es Valencian Community; Pablo Morán, Director of "Punto de Fuga" on SER network.
Moderated by: Ricard Martínez, Director of the Privacy and Digital Transformation Chair of the Universitat de València.

Session 7: Challenges for Data Protection Officers

Ricard Martínez, Director of the Privacy and Digital Transformation Chair of the Universitat de València; Mónica Arenas Ramiro, Data Protection Delegate, University of Alcalá; Ana Caro, Manager of the University of Oviedo and Association for the Study of University Law (AEDUN).