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An anthropologist on a Native American reservation has been told that a person committed a serious crime. He denies meeting this person when questioned by the tribal police. +
An anthropologist on a Native American reservation has been told that a person committed a serious crime. He meets the suspect but denies having seen them when questioned by the tribal police. +
History Educators in the Western Balkans Participate in New Training with “Once Upon a Time…We Lived Together. 1900-1945” +
This multilingual teaching tool is the main outcome of the History that Conects project "How to teach Sensitive and Controversial History in the countries of former Yugoslavia?" (2011-2014). It contains 23 workshops focusing on some of the most sensitive and controversial issues in the region between 1900-1945. Educators from all seven project countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia - contributed to this publication. +
This is a factual case about a medical study that took place in a Guatemalan prison. In this study, experiments into syphilis infection were performed on military personnel, prisoners, asylum inmates, and orphans, without their consent. Rather than giving a detailed description of events, like other reports on this subject have already done, the article reconstructs the research environment that allowed this unethical study to take place. +
An author sends his manuscript to be submitted for review. The referee, who gives a positive review, claims he was coincidentally working on the same problem, and weeks later submits his own paper on the subject. The author complains about this to the editor, who calls the referee. The referee is vague and capricious in his answers. +
The case focuses on the complicated story of a genetic research on sexual orientation. +
This a real case about an orthopaedic expert (Prof. Aspenberg) who was invited to join a workgroup in a luxury hotel in Switzerland, so that he would advocate for a new commercial method of bone enhancement called prophylactic surgery. He was also asked to become a co-author of a paper that promotes this method and an associated product. He realises that this is set up by a commercial company and that both the working group and the follow-up paper are aimed at promoting the company's product, and he declines the request to advocate for the method, or become a co-author. +
How can we provide effective training for research ethics committee members? A European assessment +
This article examines a workshop which dealt with issue of training for members of research ethics committees (RECs) throughout Europe. It summarizes the discussion and provides solutions to develop REC training. +
This video addresses disclosure of financial and nonfinancial relationships and activities. It contains relevant guidance on how to handle them. +
How to coexist in the laboratory without committing a homicide/suicide? A few of the most typical laboratory difficulties that need to be handled are organization and staff issues. '"`UNIQ--ref-00000004-QINU`"'
Because of that, it is important to nourish the virtues of collaborative spirit, patience, and humility at the workplace.
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How to make the digital scholarly monograph fit for Open Access by applying smart services and tools +
This infographic presents and describes smart services and tools for open access scholarly monographs publishing. These are identification service, annotation service, peer-review certification system, metrics service and name entity recognition. +
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<span lang="EN-US">This micromodule explains how the course “Sustainability and Eco-Justice in Everyday Research” is organised and how learners can engage with it in a meaningful way.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">It provides clarity on the architecture of the course, the sequence of learning elements, and expectations for participation.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">The course is composed of a number of individual micromodules. These are short training resources designed for individual self-paced learning, however they can also be used in class to stimulate reflection on sustainability in research. They consist of highly interactive resources combining different types of material (including videos, recorded mini-lectures, podcasts etc.), which stimulate self-reflection and provide knowledge about fundamental issues, theories and practical approaches to sustainable research.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">The micromodules frame research as not only a mechanism of knowledge production but also as a form of practice with material, social, environmental, and ethical consequences. They emphasize that research decisions (such as topic choice and methodology) have real-world impacts on individuals, communities, and ecosystems.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US">The course is modular, flexible, learner-driven and allows learners to assemble a profile-specific learning pathway that suits their goals. It includes conceptual grounding, system reflections and practical tools to design concrete actions leading to more sustainable research.</span>
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This visual art aims to increase awareness on research integrity and serves as a learning tool. It consists of four parts. First part focuses on image manipulation and falsification. Second part deals with research data which includes human errors, poor choices and complete fabrication. Third part, that copes with text-based information, addresses plagiarism, fake journals and censorship. Fourth part concerns detection of grey zones between minor problems and negligence. +
This case study presents a number of research ethics violations by a distinguished eye doctor who has helped in developing break-through medical treatments. +
The Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Online Training provides those in the legal and health field with the necessary information to understand the key human rights principles in the biomedical field. The course covers legal instruments, including the [[Resource:5d5f90dc-227a-4637-8aa0-2157dcdf17df|Oviedo convention]], European Court of Law and non-binding instruments adopted by the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics. +
<span lang="EN-GB">Organoids are innovative three-dimensional and self-organizing cell cultures of various lineages that can be used to study diverse tissues and organs. Human organoids have dramatically increased our understanding of developmental and disease biology (1). While organoids offer major scientific opportunities, they also raise important ethical questions related to consent, ownership of biological materials and the limits of experimentation.</span> +
<div>This framework was completed and submitted to the Council of Europe in September 2021. It presents an end-to-end approach to the assurance of AI project lifecycles that integrates context-based risk analysis and appropriate stakeholder engagement with comprehensive impact assessment, and transparent risk management, impact mitigation, and innovation assurance practices. Taken together, these interlocking processes constitute a Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Assurance Framework (HUDERAF). The HUDERAF combines the procedural requirements for principles-based human rights due diligence with the governance mechanisms needed to set up technical and socio-technical guardrails for responsible and trustworthy AI innovation practices. Its purpose is to provide an accessible and user-friendly set of mechanisms for facilitating compliance with a binding legal framework on artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe's standards on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and to ensure that AI innovation projects are carried out with appropriate levels of public accountability, transparency, and democratic governance.</div><div></div> +
This online training consists of various materials regarding human subject research. It includes website intended for people who do research work in communities, book on ethical questions involving research with humans, multimedia mini tutorials, videos and webinars. It also provides resources for the public on participating in research. +
HERA is a network that includes 26 national funding agencies with aim of leading and developing funding opportunities for humanities researchers in Europe. Together with the European Commission, HERA has funded 55 transnational humanities-focused projects. +
This set of guidelines from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences includes fundamental moral and ethical principles of scientific research, as well as more concrete and applied guidance on day-to-day matters of research like avoiding falsification, fabrication, plagiarism;fair authorship procedures;and reporting violations of ethical research practices.
What sets this document apart from others is its extensive guidance for the nation's Science Ethics Committee that adjudicates and oversees investigations of ethics violations. Committee members are directed to issue consequence proportional to the "seriousness" of the act;to base their investigation on the principles of objectivity, completeness, and "exact exploration;" to maintain confidentiality;and to presume innocence. +
