ENERI Classroom
ResourcesENERI Classroom
What is this about?
The ENERI Classroom is an online training and capacity-building platform for research integrity and ethics. The Classroom provides open access to training materials for research integrity and research ethics experts, such as members of research integrity offices and research ethics committees. Most training materials are suitable for online self-learning as well as online or onsite group-learning guided by a facilitator.
The ENERI Classroom addresses four main topics:
- Research integrity
- Research ethics
- Overlapping issues
- Developing infrastructures
Each topic is divided into several learning units so that both learners and teachers can focus on issues they consider particularly important.
The topic research integrity includes learning units on:
- Research integrity boards and codes of conducts
- Research integrity principles
- Violations of research integrity
- Plagiarism
- Authorship
- Peer review
- Dealing with violations and allegations of misconduct
- Whistleblowing and whistleblower protection
- Mentoring for stronger cultures of integrity.
The topic research ethics includes learning units on:
- Research ethics committees: main tasks and challenges
- Core principles of research ethics
- Research involving vulnerable groups
- Research in emergency situations
- Biobanks
- Specific aspects of clinical drug trials
- Ethics review in non-medical fields.
The topic overlapping issues includes learning units on:
- Conflict of interest
- Data protection
- Social responsibility
- Open science
- Mentoring for stronger cultures of integrity.
The topic developing infrastructures describes crucial components of effective research integrity and research ethics infrastructures and provides guidance on what to consider when introducing new elements to existing research integrity and research ethics systems. In this way, the Classroom shows how countries, regions or institutions wishing to improve their research integrity and research ethics infrastructures can address challenges in a systematic manner.
Each learning unit is structured as follows:
- Learning objectives and introduction
- Key issues
- Regulations and guidelines
- Cases & questions
- Resources
Why is this important?
For whom is this important?
What are the best practices?
Core parts of the learning pathways are based on case studies because experience has shown that they are particularly suitable to promote knowledge and foster skills conducive to acting ethically and with integrity in research. More specifically, the case studies allow learners to reflect on what they have learned and to apply newly acquired skills to concrete examples. Moreover, learners can assess their knowledge by answering a set of questions and obtaining feedback on their responses via email. Thus, the ENERI Classroom is an interactive and responsive learning platform.
The cases in the resources section on the Embassy as well as the educational scenarios developed by the EnTIRE project that are available in the educational resources section can complement the ENERI Classroom by adding further issues of interest and/or elaborating existing ones.
