VU will host an event called "Shaping a Culture of Research Integrity"

On 3 October, Vilnius University will host an event, "Shaping a Culture of Research Integrity".

Research Integrity is widely known among members of academia and is usually seen as the commitment to comply with ethical principles and professional standards of research implementation by researchers and research institutions.

The most crucial role in the academic world is, however, attributed to Culture, which forms values, expectations, behaviour and, eventually, habits. During the event, key-point will be given to this dimension of Research Integrity. The event will cover various aspects of Research Integrity, including Research Culture, Mental Health, Mentoring and Responsible Publishing.

Speakers are invited lecturers from different universities who devote their daily work to shaping Research Culture and Research Integrity. The event will start with a lecture given by Prof. Jonathan Craig – Vice-president of Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) and Dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health – who has devoted many years of his career to forming Health Research Politics in Australia and globally. Other invited speakers will also cover Research Integrity aspects: Prof. Ronny Bruffaerts – professor of Psychiatry in the Medical Faculty of Leuven Catholic University (Belgium); Prof. Eugenijus Gefenas – professor of Medicine Ethics of Medical Faculty of Vilnius University, Dr Ana Ferreras – Senior Program Officer of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and others.

This event is open to all the members of Academia of Vilnius University: scientists, researchers, and doctoral students. We kindly invite representatives from other Lithuanian Universities, members of Committees of Academical Ethics and Research Ethics, as well as Mentors of doctoral students.

Event venue: Scholarly Communication and Information Centre, Vilnius University, Conference Hall (Saulėtekio av. 5, Vilnius).

Date: October 3rd, 2023. Registration starts at 9:30.

The event will be held in English. Translation to Lithuanian will not be provided.

Please find the programme attached. Registration is compulsory. Registration is open until the 28th of September.

The event is organized in the framework of the EU H2020 programme project ‘Alliance for Life Sciences: From Strategies to Actions in Central and Eastern Europe’ — ‘A4L_ACTIONS’ (No. 964997), together with the Faculty of Medicine.