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This set of recommendations (3 out of 9 POIESIS recommendations) focuses on strengthening research integrity through better institutional organization, governance, and culture. It calls for aligning the principles of integrity such as honesty, accountability, and transparency with actual research practices. This includes reforming incentive structures that may encourage questionable practices, supporting integrity training, and ensuring fair evaluation systems. The aim is to make integrity not just a formal requirement but an integral part of the daily research environment. +
This set of recommendations (3 out of 9 POIESIS recommendations) focuses on strengthening the connection between science and society through active inclusion of citizens and stakeholders in the research process. It advocates for participatory and co-creative approaches that allow public concerns, local knowledge, and social values to inform research design, implementation, and dissemination. The aim is to move beyond viewing the public merely as recipients of scientific results and instead treat them as partners in shaping research agendas. POIESIS emphasizes that engagement should be genuine, continuous, and mutually beneficial not a token exercise. When citizens and communities are involved from the start, scientific outcomes become more relevant, legitimate, and socially responsive. This approach also helps researchers better understand diverse perspectives and address potential ethical, environmental, or social impacts early in the process. Strengthening societal integration promotes inclusivity, builds mutual understanding, and ensures that science serves collective well-being. By fostering open dialogue, this recommendation contributes to bridging the gap between scientific institutions and the wider public, ultimately enhancing societal trust in science. +
This set recommendations (3 out of 9 POIESIS recommendations) examines how scientific information travels through different “chains of mediation” from researchers to communicators, journalists, policymakers, and the public and how these interactions affect trust in science. It calls for improved collaboration between scientists and professional communicators to ensure that research findings are presented accurately, clearly, and responsibly. The recommendation stresses the importance of transparency about uncertainty and limitations, especially in sensitive or politically charged areas such as health, environment, and technology. It also highlights the need for training scientists in communication skills and for supporting journalists in understanding complex research topics. By strengthening these communication chains, the goal is to prevent misinformation, misinterpretation, and oversimplification of science in media and policy contexts. The recommendation also promotes dialogue over one-way dissemination encouraging engagement that allows for questioning, reflection, and feedback. Ultimately, effective communication is seen as a cornerstone of trust, helping to sustain a well-informed public, a responsive scientific community, and sound evidence-based policymaking. +
The Code of Good Scientific Practice constitutes a framework for self-regulation. The content has been supervised and updated as part of the remit of the PRBB Good Scientific Practice Working Group (GSP Working Group).The GSP Working Group is made up of nominated representatives of all PRBB Centres +
The “Pro‐active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework ” (PREPARED), has developed an operational research ethics and integrity framework which safeguards key ethical values, supports a rapid and effective research response to crises. The key output of the project are presented in this page and include (among others):
*a global code of conduct for research during pandemics;
*a global code of conduct for research in fragile settings;
*prioritization and fast-track guidance for research ethics committees;
*harassment briefings for researchers;
*an ethics brief on facilitating researcher mobility;
*a case study training app;
*and many educational resources. +
PREPARED Guidance for Fair and Fast Desk Assessment of Submitted Manuscripts during Times of Crisis +
The PREPARED "<span lang="EN-GB">Guidance for fair and fast desk assessment of submitted manuscripts during times of crisis” is addressed to editors and publishers. It covers the process</span> <span lang="EN-GB">for identification of manuscripts that meet the threshold criteria for peer review and the criteria against which the submission can be assessed.</span>
<span lang="EN-GB">Whilst the guidance was developed for crisis situations, it is also likely to be helpful during routine work of editors, publishers and research ethics committees.</span> +
This guidance offers practical advice on how to swiftly yet responsibly review research during public health emergencies. It integrates insights insights from the PREPARED project, WHO guidance, and others sources to propose an accelerated ethics review model. This includes pre-reviewing generic protocols, forming dedicated rapid-response ethics committees, and employing streamlined decision-making procedures. It emphasizes proportionality, matching review intensity to urgency, and collaboration between national and regional review bodies.
The recommendations also call for clear communication channels with public health authorities, multi-country coordination, and advance planning for data and sample sharing. By outlining these measures, the document aims to maintain ethical rigor without slowing critical research during crises, ensuring participant protection, scientific integrity, and public trust even under intense time pressure. +
The aim of this Horizon 2020 project is to enhance research integrity by improving integrity policies of national and international research organizations and also by providing better tools for research and managers. The project also aims to contribute to education of new generations of researchers with new tools. +
PRINTEGER is a project funded by the European Union in the framework of Horizon 2020. Its mission is to enhance research integrity by promoting a research culture in which integrity is part and parcel of what it means to do excellent research, and not just an external and restrictive control system. To promote such a culture, an improved governance of integrity and responsible research has to be informed by practice: the daily operation of researchers and the tensions of a complex research system. PRINTEGER will contribute to improve adherence to high standards of integrity in research warranting high levels of public support for the sciences. In the short term, it will do so by improving integrity policies of national and international research organisations, but also by providing better tools for research leaders and managers. In the longer term, PRINTEGER will contribute to improve ethical awareness and reflection through the education of new generations of scientists with next generation educational tools. Immediate contributions of PRINTEGER will include raised attention for realistic and effective integrity measures through dissemination, including a large conference, and immediate trial and use of much improved educational resources for teaching research ethics to future and young scientists. +
Researchers, policymakers, and regulators face numerous challenges when it comes to conducting responsible research and innovation across various fields. These challenges encompass ethical practices, regulatory inconsistencies and data protection legislation complexities. With this in mind, the EU-funded PRO-RES project aims to provide a comprehensive, flexible and durable guidance framework. Designed to cover a wide range of non-medical sciences, this framework will offer practical solutions complying with the highest research ethics and integrity standards. By incorporating successful examples and best practices, PRO-RES will establish strong links with existing projects, contributing to post-2020 European strategic funding policy and promoting responsible research engagements. Ultimately, this initiative will empower policymakers to make more effective use of non-medical scientific research information. +
With the European research landscape rapidly changing, nowadays, it is becoming increasingly essential to emphasise the virtue of research integrity and to start handling new scientific techniques in a comprehensible way.
Research integrity is a constituent of more innovation, growth and high-quality jobs. It leads to more efficient, appropriate, useful and reliable scientific evidence for policy-makers and entrepreneurs, where decisions based on research results lead to a better future. +
The Path2Integrity project has created a map of curricula and syllabi that either directly or indirectly cover topics related to research integrity and research ethics. Curricula and syllabi cover the secondary, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral education level. Educators are invited to contribute additional curricula and syllabi to expand the map. +
Path2Integrity is a project on research integrity education, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program. Under the headline #MyPath2Integrity, the project has created campaign materials to help raise awareness about the importance of research integrity among secondary school students, undergraduate students, graduate students and young researchers. Materials are based on the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and include posters, postcards, leaflets, booklets and videos, many of which are not only available in English, but also in Bulgarian, Spanish, Catalan, Danish, German and Polish. Many of the materials rely on prominent researchers as role models to inspire pupils, students and young researchers to strive for integrity in their own work. +
Path2Integrity has created several learning units on research integrity, divided into three series:
*S-series (for secondary school and undergraduate students, pre-disciplinary)
*M-series (for graduate students, disciplinary)
*Y-series (for early career researchers, post-disciplinary)
Each series is accompanied by a ''[https://path2integrity.eu/ri-materials#Handbooks Handbook for Teachers and Trainers].'' The handbooks contain various suggestions on how the learning cards can be used and share some helpful hints and tricks that facilitate effective teaching from the secondary school level to doctoral training. +
This learning card of the Path2Integrity project addresses the topic ''Good research is based on honesty.'' It has been designed for teaching secondary school students and undergraduate students. The learning card describes how the following learning objectives can be accomplished in a session of 90-120 minutes:
*Describe the values of a researcher
*Outline reasons for conducting reliable research
*Realize consequences of research
*Argue in favor of the importance of reliable research results for both research and society
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Path2Integrity has created several learning units of 90-120 minutes on various topics related to research integrity. For each unit, a learning card outlining teaching instructions in a step-by-step manner has been created. All learning cards address topics identified as crucial for research integrity in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.
There are three series of learning cards:
*S-series: for secondary school students and undergraduate students (pre-disciplinary)
*M-series: for graduate students (disciplinary)
*Y-series: for early career researcher (post-disciplinary)
All learning cards are based on one of three dialogical methods: role-play, storytelling or coming to an agreement. These activating methods help students to connect research integrity to their lifeworld and invite them to address ethical issues in research in a well-considered and informed way.
The learning cards can be accessed through the following links:
'''S-series'''
S0: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441315#.YFYjyGRKj0o Good research is based on honesty]''
S1: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441316#.YFYkY2RKj0o Researchers, research institutions, scientific journals, government and regulatory agencies as well as funding agencies all safeguard good research and ensure reliable research results]''
S2: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441318#.YFYk7GRKj0o Researchers follow their aims in a careful and well-considered manner]''
S3: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4543040#.YFYlVGRKj0o Researchers comply with codes and regulations]''
S4: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441321#.YFYloGRKj0o Research groups work as transparently and openly as possible]''
S5: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441324#.YFYmC2RKj0o Researchers ensure appropriate authorship and citation]''
'''M-series'''
M0: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4434118#.YFYm0mRKj0o Good research is based on honesty]''
M1: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4437582#.YFYoeWRKj0o The research environment constitutes itself through clear infrastructure, policies and procedures]''
M2: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441257#.YFYoEGRKj0o Researchers design, carry out , analyse and document research in a careful and well-considered manner]''
M3: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441304#.YFYol2RKj0o Researchers comply with codes and regulations relevant to their discipline]''
M4: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441307#.YFYozmRKj0o Research groups work as transparently and openly as possible]''
M5: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441307#.YFYozmRKj0o Researchers ensure appropriate authorship and citation]''
M8: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965693#.YFYpRGRKj0o Researchers, research institutions and organisations ensure access to data is as open as possible and as closed as necessary]''
M9: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4434150#.YFYpoWRKj0o Research integrity is a professional, ethical and legal responsibility]''
'''Y-series'''
Y1: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4543043#.YFYqHmRKj0o The research environment constitutes itself through clear infrastructure, policies and procedures]''
Y2: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441330#.YFYqlWRKj0o Researchers design, carry out , analyse and document research in a careful and well-considered manner]''
Y3: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441333#.YFYqxWRKj0o Researchers comply with codes and regulations relevant to their discipline]''
Y4: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441334#.YFYrGGRKj0o Research groups work as transparently and openly as possible]''
Y5: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/4441336#.YFYrX2RKj0o Researchers ensure appropriate authorship and citation]''
Y6: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965703#.YFYrnmRKj0o Researchers and research organisations follow good mentoring practices]''
Y7: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965716#.YFYr0WRKj0o Researchers withdraw from involvement when conflicts of interest arise]''
Y8: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965729#.YFYsB2RKj0o Researchers, research institutions and organisations and ensure appropriate data practices and management]''
Many of the learning cards draw on one of the following two introductory learning cards that describe situations in which research integrity is at stake:
''[https://zenodo.org/record/4543038#.YFYsg2RKj0o What happened at LONA Science Centre]''
''[https://zenodo.org/record/4543021#.YFYshGRKj0o Hannah's story]''
The learning cards can not only be used in classroom settings, but also in online teaching. To facilitate online teaching, Path2Integrity has created an [https://www.learning-p2i.eu/ online learning platform], which allows for combining asynchronous and synchronous phases of learning.
In addition to the learning cards for pupils, students and young researchers, Path2Integrity, supported by its spin-off ''[https://trustinscience.manual.to/browse/AXG1QOhgHOIPoN2DisLx Trust in Science: Fighting COVID-19 with reliable information,]'' has created learning cards for citizen education.
'''Citizen education series'''
S01: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965658#.YFYuFmRKj0o Society needs responsible research]''
S02: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965664#.YFYuZGRKj0o Bad research can harm people]''
S04: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965672#.YFYuq2RKj0o Academic integrity is a safeguard for collaborative work]''
S05: ''[https://zenodo.org/record/3965679#.YFYu6mRKj0o Society needs reliable information: Be aware of fake news]''
Path2Integrity is an online learning environment designed to support students, young researchers, and professionals in understanding and practising research integrity. Hosted at learning-p2i.eu, the platform offers a publicly accessible set of learning courses built on “learning cards” that cover 20 units addressing core principles of behaviour in research such as responsibility, honesty, respect, and accountability. The courses are structured to enable dialogical, student-centred methods (discussion, debate) as opposed to purely passive learning. It was developed under the Horizon 2020 research programme, by an international consortium, to help navigate the evolving research landscape and equip users to engage in ethical and transparent research practices. The materials are freely available for download and use in blended or fully digital teaching settings. +
PathOS (Open Science Impact Pathways) is a Horizon Europe research project (2022–2025) that seeks to understand, map, and quantify the effects of Open Science by uncovering the causal pathways linking Open Science practices to their outcomes in science, society, and the economy. Through six detailed case studies, the project develops new indicators, data-driven methods, and a cost-benefit analysis framework to assess costs and benefits of Open Science. Its goal is to provide evidence-based policy recommendations and tools to help funders, institutions, and policymakers make informed decisions to maximize the positive impact of Open Science. +
This is a factual case. +
Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, involving 12,000 children growing up over 15 years in Ethiopia, the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, Peru and Vietnam. Two cohorts of children – a younger cohort who were born in 2001-02 and an older cohort born in 1994-95 – are being followed. A variety of survey and qualitative methods are being used to collect data with children, parents, and others in communities. +
