NERQ is a new initiative that results from two EU projects, namely Path2Integrity and Integrity. NERQ stands for network for education in research quality, and takes a broad perspective on research quality, namely that high standards in research integrity, research ethics, open science and responsible research & innovation meet in training and courses for students and researchers throughout various stages of their career.

Ethics in research is an essential ingredient for good science. Maintaining high ethical standards is essential to winning public trust in scientific work. However, there are many challenges such as new technologies, increasing international collaboration in academic research and the absence of standardisation across Europe. The EU-funded irecs project will reinforce the reliability of science by advancing research ethics expertise and competencies. It will improve the understanding of research ethics in Europe and provide interactive, sustainable training programmes. Building on the European Network for Research Ethics and Research Integrity and the Embassy of Good Science as well as close collaboration with key stakeholder organizations, irecs will create a horizontal community unifying research ethics practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders.

The “Pro‐active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework ” (PREPARED), aims to develop an operational research ethics and integrity framework which safeguards key ethical values, supports a rapid and effective research response to crises.

This training focuses on teaching Research Integrity in applied sciences universities of The Netherlands with a simple underlying philosophy: if you want researchers to behave with integrity, you will have to teach them what to look for and how to do things.

The Equitable, Inclusive, and Human-Centered XR Project.

SOPs4RI (Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity) aims to stimulate and foster responsible research practices across European Research Performing and Funding Organisations (RPOs and RFOs) with a toolbox that includes a collection of easy-to-use Standard Operating Procedures and Guidelines that these organisations can use to develop their own Research Integrity Promotion Plans.

The NSRI is the first ever nation-wide online survey targeting researchers of all universities and university medical centres in The Netherlands aiming to report on factors that promote or hinder Responsible Research Practices (RRPs).

VIRT2UE: A European Train-the-Trainer Programme for teaching research integrity

EnTIRE: developing The Embassy platform for the Research integrity and ethics communities

PRO-Ethics: Participatory Real Life Experiments in Research and Innovation Funding Organisations on Ethics

INTEGRITY: Empowering students for Responsible Research Conduct (RCR) through evidence-based, scaffolded learning.

ROSiE is a three-year project funded by HORIZON2020. Its mission is to co-create with all related stakeholders novel practical tools to foster a responsible open science and citizen science.

Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and related technologies

TechEthos (Ethics for Technologies with High Socio-Economic Impact) is a three-year EU-funded project that project that deals with the ethics of the new and emerging technologies anticipated to have high socio-economic impact. TechEthos aims to facilitate “ethics by design”, namely, to bring ethical and societal values into the design and development of new and emerging technologies from the very beginning of the process.

The EQIPD consortium developed a Quality System for preclinical research to boost innovation.

The Embassy Foundation aims to ensure sustainability of the platform and further develop it based on the needs of our users.

An Erasmus+ project with Georgian universities
https://ethics.iliauni.edu.ge/en/

This is the community page for the Groningen branch of the ReproducibiliTEA network, to post news, updates, events and more!

It’s the Orchard, Not the Apples
Beyond Bad Apples: Towards a Behavioural and Evidence-Based Approach to Promote Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Europe

This is the community page for the VIRT2UE Community in the UK.