Network partners

The ÖAWI is integrated in national and international networks

National

National Network Partners

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Austrian Ombudsman-Net of Higher Ed
The Austrian Ombudsman-Net of Higher Ed was jointly founded by the Austrian Student Ombuds Office and the Austrian Agency for Scientific Integrity (OeAWI) in 2016, enabling exchange between institutions addressing concerns in higher education and research. Every two years the OeAWI and the Austrian Student Ombuds Office publish a brochure (see link below) “Ombudsstellen und ähnliche Einrichtungen im österreichischen Hochschul- und Forschungsraum”. The institutions listed within are also viewable in an interactive map. The Ombuds Office for Students and the OeAWI also provide specially targeted services as part of the Austrian Ombudsman-Net of Higher Ed.


Austrian Student Ombuds OfficeThe Austrian Student Ombuds Office at the Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF) is available to all domestic and foreign students at universities, private universities, universities of applied sciences and teacher training colleges, as well as applicants and prospective students. Additionally, former students of the aforementioned institutions and other concerned parties can also contact the Ombuds Office. The Student Ombuds Office advises students on matters relating to studying, teaching, examinations, university services and administration, assisting with problems and finding solutions. The Ombuds Office also provides intermediary services for problems that cannot be handled directly at institutions or which concern multiple institutions.

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RRI - Platform Responsible Research and Innovation Austria

RRI wants to contribute to an awareness of responsible research and innovation in Austria. This applies to both the goals of science and research and the needs and wishes of society at large.

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International

International Network Partners

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ALLEA - ALL European Academies

All European Academies (ALLEA) is the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. ALLEA’s mission includes facilitating collaboration among its member academies, offering opinions on scientific issues and questions of science policy, and advising representatives of politics, science, and civil community. ALLEA promotes exchange of information and experiences among European academies.

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ENERI - European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity

The key objectives of the EU-project European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity (ENERI) are to intensify the exchange of information among experts in ethics and research integrity and to harmonize the processes in ethics reviews and investigations of alleged research misconduct.

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ENOHE - European Network for Ombudsmen in Higher Education

The European Network for Ombudsmen in Higher Education (ENOHE) was established in 2003 as an informal network. ENOHE’s key objectives are to help its members share working methods and experience, build on already existing skills and given competencies. The network is open to people interested in setting up such services.

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ENRIO - European Network of Research Integrity Offices

The European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) is an informal network serving the purpose of promoting the exchange among national and other institutions that deal with questions about research integrity. Since 2009, the OeAWI has been a member.

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EUREC - European Network of Research Ethics Committees

EUREC is a network that brings together already existing national Research Ethics Committees (RECs), institutions with comparable initiatives at the European level. The network promotes knowledge sharing among member organizations.

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ETINED - Pan-European Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education

The ETINED-platform is a network of specialists appointed by member states of the Council of Europe and by states that have signed the European Cultural Convention. The mission of the platform is to share best practices on transparency and integrity in education, to create guidelines, and to increase the acting competence of all stakeholders.

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Science Europe - Working Group on Research Integrity

Science Europe is an umbrella organization of European Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations. In 2013, a working group on the topic of research integrity was established. A final stakeholder workshop was held in February 2017.

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Former network partners

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HEIRRI - Higher Educations & Responsible Research and Innovation

Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation (HEIRRI) was a Europe wide project, funded by the Horizon 2020 Program. The aim of HEIRRI was to support the integration of RRI concepts in the formal and informal education of future scholars.

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SATORI - Stakeholders Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation

SATORI is a platform for the consolidation and advancement of ethical assessment in research and innovation. The 4-year project aims to develop a common framework of ethical principles and practical approaches so as to strengthen shared understandings among actors involved in the design and implementation of research ethics.

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Path2Integrity - European project on Teaching Research Integrity

Path2Integrity supports formal and informal learning methods to strengthening understandings of research integrity, developing strategies to establish cultures of research integrity within educational institutions.

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PRINTEGER - Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research

PRINTEGER is an EU project funded under the Horizon 2020 program. The mission of PRINTEGER is to promote a research culture in which integrity is an essential component of excellent research.

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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

Hochschule Campus Wien

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

Between 2014 and 2022, she developed, implemented and managed the Competence Center for Applied Nursing Research at Hochschule 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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