Prevention

The ÖAWI focuses on awareness raising and education

Raising Awareness

The OeAWI raises awareness of the Standards of Good Scientific Practice among researchers as well as the general public.  Application-oriented training about the Standards of Good Scientific Practice in all research activities is the Agency’s primary task.

The OeAWI also offers advice and training on how to prevent and investigate research misconduct. ‘In national and international working groups, the Agency contributes to the development of policy documents.

Raising Awareness

Preventive measures of the OeAWI include:

  • Advising
  • Training
  • Development of policy documents
  • Establishment of and contribution to working groups and networks
Training

Training

The Austrian Agency for Research Integrity provides its expertise on fostering best practice in research integrity and the prevention of research misconduct. Support is made available to members through the provision of lectures, workshops and train-the-trainer programs. The professional development offered by the OeAWI encompasses various topics concerning research integrity, with the overall aim to promote Good Research Practice..

The OeAWI offers programs which encourage active engagement and reflection as a process to raise awareness about best practice and prevent research misconduct. For this reason, the OeAWI has developed a hands-on ‘Train-the-Trainer’ program to introduce the fundamentals of research integrity to prospective trainers from member organisations.

In addition, the program teaches didactic methods to promote Good Research Practice, allowing participants to reflect on how these methods may function in their classroom.

Since 2010, the OeAWI has delivered about 150 lectures and workshops on the topic of research integrity.

More information on OeAWI Training Programs

 

The OeAWI was project partner in the EU-project VIRT2UE, in which a pan-European Train-the-Trainer program to facilitate research ethics and research integrity was developed.

 

Learn more about VIRT2UE

Development of Policy Documents

Development of Policy Documents

Guidelines for Good Scientific Practice

In 2015, the Guidelines were developed and aligned in collaboration with (then) 37 member organizations.

Revision of the European Code of Conduct

Responding to a request of the European Commission, the European Code of Conduct (2010) was updated. For this purpose, a working group was established in the Federation All European Academies (ALLEA). The working group in turn chose to include important stakeholders through a two-tier consulting process. The members of the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) were invited to submit their perspectives; thus, also OeAWI. In April 2017, the revised version of the Code was made public; it will be translated into other European languages.

Stakeholder Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation

The acronym SATORI stands for „Stakeholders Acting Together on the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation.“ SATORI has been funded by the EU in the context of the H2020 program. The project aims to develop a common European framework of ethical principles and practices so as to promote a much better understanding of research ethics. As one of the invited stakeholders, Nicole Foeger was asked to discuss and review the final documents regarding the standards of “Ethics Assessment.”

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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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