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a new Horizon 2020 project with participation of the OeAWI

20.03.2019

SOPs4RI – a new Horizon 2020 project on research integrity with participation of the OeAWI

Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity (SOPs4RI)

A new four-year project (2019-2022) funded by the European Commission aims to develop an online, freely accessible and easy-to-use toolbox with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidelines to help research performing organizations and research funding organizations to enhance research integrity. SOPs4RI aims to stimulate transformational processes across European Research Performing Organizations and Research Funding Organizations (RPOs & RFOs). The objective of SOPs4RI is to promote good research practices that align with the principles and norms of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

 

SOPs4RI will thus create a toolbox with SOPs and Guidelines that are sensitive to organizational, disciplinary and national differences. When working with Research Integrity Promoting Plans, RPOs and RFOs should be able to find SOPs and Guidelines in the toolbox that can be directed towards their specific organizational and disciplinary needs. Examples of what the toolbox may include are procedures for training in research integrity, procedures for dealing with issues of research misconduct, guidelines for Open Science (open data, open access etc.), guidelines for responsible reward systems, and guidelines for quality assurance, transparency and reliability (peer review procedures, preregistration of protocols, etc.).

 

The SOPs and Guidelines will be created in collaboration with key stakeholder groups and through a wide-ranging empirical research process. Empirical elements of SOPs4RI include comprehensive literature reviews, 20 expert interviews, a three-round Delphi survey with 100+ research integrity experts, 32 focus group interviews across academic disciplines, a survey of researchers across 31 countries, and four co-creation workshops with research integrity officers and administrators as well as other stakeholders.

 

In addition to this research and development program, SOPs4RI also includes a pilot testing program in which selected RPOs and RFOs will apply the SOPs and Guidelines in local practices. A number of public and private research funding organizations as well as university networks have confirmed their willingness to participate in the pilot phase. Results of this final step of the validation procedure will feed into the final version of SOPs and Guidelines.

 

SOPs4RI began in January 2019 and the final version of the toolbox will be ready in the autumn of 2022.

 

The project can be followed on www.sops4ri.eu or on Twitter: @sops4ri  

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Law

Prof.
Regina E. Aebi-Müller

Deputy Chair of the Commission

Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne – Switzerland Regina E. Aebi-Müller graduated in law from the University of Bern and was admitted to the bar of the Canton of Bern in 1997. This was followed by a doctorate with a focus on family and inheritance law. In 2005, she completed her habilitation on the system of the protection of personality in civil law. Since the same year, she has been a full professor of private law and comparative private law at the University of Lucerne. Her research focuses on medical law, family law, the law of persons (capacity to act, protection of personality, law of associations and foundations) and the law of succession. She has authored numerous publications, partly in the context of externally funded research projects, and is a member of national and international professional societies. Since 2016, she has been co-editor of the renowned «Berner Kommentar». Regina E. Aebi-Müller has been a member of the Central Ethics Committee of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences since June 2017 and a member of the Expert Committee of Alzheimer Switzerland since 2019. She was a Research Councillor at the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2021 and Vice-President of this division from 2017 to 2021. She was also a member and Vice President of the Commission for Scientific Integrity of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2017 to 2021. Since 2020, Regina E. Aebi-Müller has been Prorector for Personnel and Professorships at the University of Lucerne and, a spart of that position, President of the University Equal Opportunities Commission. Since 2011, she has been an investigator in cases of sexual harassment. From 2007 to 2011, she was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne.
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FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Haslinger-Baumann

FH Campus Wien

 

Since 2022, Vice Rector for Research and Development and member of the executive board of FH Campus Wien. Member of the ethics commission of FH Campus Wien.


Between 2014 and 2022, she developed, implemented and managed the Competence Center for Applied Nursing Research at FH Campus Wien, and taught in the Department for Applied Nursing Research. She developed the strategic direction of the research center and conceptualized and led application-focused and interdisciplinary
projects in national and international contexts. Her research focuses are in the fields of Active and Assisted Living, Digitalization in health and nursing, as well as Theory-Practice-Transfer. From 1998 to 2013, she was part of the research institute of the Vienna Red Cross (which she led for 1.5 years) where she established nursing research with a focus on evidence-based nursing in mobile and inpatient care.


Haslinger-Baumann studied Philosophy with a focus on ethics as well as Political Science with a focus on social policy, both at the University of Vienna. She holds a Doctorate in Nursing Science with a focus on research applications from UMIT – Private University for health sciences, medical informatics and technology in Hall, Tyrol.


Many years of experience as certified health- and nursing professional in Austria (Vienna) and abroad (Nepal, India, Columbia, Ecuador)


Married,
three children.

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