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Violations of good research practices breach the principles of research integrity. They damage the quality and credibility of research and undermine research collaboration and authorship. These actions may also be against the law, in which case they are

In Europe, there are several different national approaches available for investigating violations of research integrity. There are also countries which still do not have any national framework. There are basically two courses of action in determining

The Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK launched the research integrity adviser system in 2017. Research integrity advisers provide personal and confidential advice on research integrity to members of their organisation, and there are

For research involving human participants, the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK has issued a set of guidelines on the ethical principles to be followed.

Ethical review in Finland depends on whether the research is medical or in the scope of human sciences. Medical research The Medical Research Act and Decree (488/1999) regulate medical research involving human beings. According to the Act, medical

Alleged violations of research integrity (so-called RI violations) are investigated in the research organisation where the alleged violation has taken place. The process of handling alleged violations of research integrity, or the RI process, must be

Guidelines for the responsible conduct of research and for handling allegations of misconduct (the RCR guidelines) have been published by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, which is appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture in

Here you will find short videos produced by TENK for teaching purposes. In addition to Finnish and Swedish, the videos are available in English, French and Russian. Videos on Research Integrity (RI) Good research practices In English: Good research

On this page you will find TENK's guidelines and other publications in PDF format. Text-only versions of central publications are available on separate pages. All material published after 1.1.2021 is licensed with a CC BY 4.0 license unless otherwise

Ethical review means advance scrutiny and evaluation of a research plan in the light of the ethical practices generally followed in that particular discipline of science, with special emphasis on preventing any harm that the research or its results might

In Finland, for research to be ethically acceptable and reliable and for its results to be credible, the research must be conducted according to the Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (PDF). In line with the European Code of Conduct for