VIRT2UE
Virtue Based Ethics and Integrity of Research: Train-the-Trainer Program for Upholding the Principles and Practices of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
Objectives
Consistent application and internalization of the principles listed in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (ECoC) requires widespread dissemination, innovative training program and novel tools. VIRT2UE aims to develop a sustainable train-the-trainer blended learning programme enabling tailored ERI teaching across Europe, focusing on understanding and upholding the princi-ples of the ECoC. The learning programme will provide a toolbox of educational resources and in-corporate an innovative online course with face-to-face sessions designed to foster moral virtues and apply the content of the teaching material to concrete situations.
Outputs
- Conduct a conceptual mapping amongst stakeholders to identify and rank the essential virtues for good scientific practice and their relation to the ECoC’s principles
- Identify and consult ethics and research integrity (ERI) trainers and the wider scientific community to understand existing capacity and deficiencies in ERI educational re-sources
- Develop an innovative face-to-face train-the-trainer programme to provide trainers with tools to promote the ECoC and foster researchers’ virtues
- Create and update training materials for trainers and researchers
- Implement and disseminate the train-the-trainer programme across Europe, and build capacity and consistency by focusing on underdeveloped regions and unifying frag-mented efforts
- Evaluate the training programme in terms of trainers’ and researchers’ needs, and use the evaluation results for further developing of the training and making a sustainability plan
VIRT2UE recognizes that knowledge of rules and codes is not enough to truly uphold and internalize the principles explicated in the code and integrate them in their everyday. VIRT2UE aims to take on this challenge by offering the development of a European-wide, innovative, blended learning pro-gramme which fosters knowledge of researchers in both academia and industry of the ECoC and its application, by providing tools for reflection.
Duration
June 2018 - May 2021
Cordis Entry
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
