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Fostering responsible conduct of research 

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Sandra Bendiscioli
  • Senior Policy Officer
  • + 49 6221 8891 119
  • alessandra.bendiscioli @embo.org
Pauline Ronnet
  • Policy Assistant
  • + 49 6221 8891 505

EMBO works with life scientists to create environments in which research is pursued responsibly, with integrity and to the highest standards. We help scientists to embed research integrity principles in their work. We engage internationally with stakeholders such as research integrity offices, academies, and funders to improve the governance of research integrity.

EMBO Members and researchers funded by EMBO are expected to observe the fundamental principles for responsible conduct of research laid out in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity:

  • Reliability in ensuring the quality of research, reflected in the design, the methodology, the analysis and the use of resources.
  • Honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting and communicating research in a transparent, fair, full and unbiased way.
  • Respect for colleagues, research participants, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage and the environment.
  • Accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organisation, for training, supervision and mentoring, and for its wider impacts.

The EMBO Resource on Responsible Research offers materials to organize structured discussions on responsible research. This open resource includes downloadable and adaptable slides with supporting notes, short videos and a practical guide. It draws on a decade of expert discussions on research integrity and research culture in the life sciences, known as the EMBO Fora on Responsible Research.

EMBO provides its members and their lab staff free access to an Epigeum online training course on research integrity, which was co-developed by EMBO. EMBO Members can contact us for instructions and access codes.

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellows are required to take this course, and will receive information on how to access it from the EMBO Fellowship Office.

EMBO Young Investigators are also required to take the course, and will receive information on how to access it from the EMBO Young Investigator Office. The course is also available to their lab members.

SIMPLIFY. The Senior Policy Officer sits on the Advisory Board of SIMPLIFY, an EC-funded project implementing the ERA Policy Action 18 on research integrity and ethics. 

World Conferences on Research Integrity (WCRI). EMBO has contributed the World Conferences on Research Integrity since their inception in 2007. These conferences bring together research integrity experts, administrators, funders, editors, scientists, policymakers and representatives of scientific academies to promote integrity in scientific research. 

ENRIO. EMBO is affiliated with ENRIO, the European Network of Research Integrity Offices. A non-profit association, ENRIO is one of the key organizations that brings together representatives of national research integrity offices from Europe and other experts.

Path2Integrity. The Policy team was a member of the policymaker and stakeholder board of the project Path2Integrity, funded by the EC Horizon 2020 program. The project focussed on research integrity education.

ROSiE. The Policy team EMBO was a member of the stakeholder forum of the EC Horizon 2020 funded ROSiE project (Responsible Open Science in Europe). The project  developed and openly share practical tools that ensure research ethics and research integrity in open science and citizen science.

Strengthening research integrity in Europe: Exploring the role of a pan-European body and engaging the research community (2023)

Governance of Research Integrity: Options for a Coordinated Approach in Europe (2020)

This page brings together a curated selection of guidance, tools and training for research performing organizations seeking to create and maintain research integrity at institutional level, and for researchers wishing to safeguard good research practice

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