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Course Description

As a researcher, you have the privilege of working freely and creatively, pursuing your own interests and expanding the knowledge base of the scientific community - and the community in general. This freedom comes with responsibility: the responsibility for self-control, accuracy, honesty, efficiency and objectivity. The scientific community has established rules for research integrity integrity, aimed at preserving the freedom of research and preventing scientific misconduct.

Content

The workshop is based on the DFG curriculum »Good Scientific Practice« for courses in Science and Medicine | G. Sponholz | 10/2011, as well as the Horizon 2020-funded Virt2ue concept | Embassy of Good Science 2020 (https://embassy.science/wiki/Training), with a particular focus on the following topics: 

• detecting scientific misconduct
• Storage, handling and protection of data,
• documentation,
• publication process and authorship,
• plagiarism/ AI
• conflict resolution / ombuds system.

The workshop encourages the active participation of the participants and offers case discussions, individual working sessions, plenary discussions and information inputs. All participants will receive relevant links to useful resources, a tool kit with publications, institutional guidelines and local contact points that they can refer to throughout their academic career. These skills are also valuable for researchers moving on to other career paths.

Course Aims

In this workshop, participants will learn about the rules of scientific integrity and good scientific practice and learn how to avoid research misconduct.

The workshop presents the current statutes on research integrity (Singapore Statement, ALLEA Code of Conduct, DFG Codex, guidelines of the German Rectors' Conference) as well as local regulations.

In addition, awareness of the importance of good scientific practice in the various scientific disciplines is to be raised. The workshop will not only focus on compliance but also prepares scientists from all academic disciplines for the complexities and dilemmas of everyday research by promoting the development of morals and values.