Symposium
on Research Integrity
Promoting a Culture of (Research) Integrity
10 Years ÖAWI
10 years Austrian Agency for Research Integrity
International as well as Austrian speakers will talk about challenges and opportunities of building more confidence in science but also in creating a culture of integrity within the research system.
Supported by
Program
9:30
Registration and Coffee
10:00
Welcome Address
- Klement Tockner (Chair ÖAWI, President of the FWF)
The ÖAWI – Conception, Birth and Early Childhood
- Christoph Kratky (Founder and first Chair of ÖAWI, former President of the FWF)
10:30
The ÖAWI model of fostering research integrity: looking back and learning forward
- Stephan Rixen (Chairperson of the Committee on Research Integrity of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (ÖAWI); University of Bayreuth (Germany))
11:15
Keynote: What research institutions can and should do to foster research integrity
- Lex Bouter (Chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation; VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam)
12:15
Lunch
13:15
The REWARD campaign: reducing waste in research is an integrity issue
- Sabine Kleinert (Senior Editor Lancet)
14:00
How to protect whistleblowers and the scientists they accuse
- Sven Hendrix (Hasselt University)
14:45
Coffee break
15:15
Transgressions of research integrity — Should we be concerned?
- Ulrike Felt (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna)
16:00
Prevention as a key element for Integrity
- Karl-Gerhard Straßl/Martina Baravalle (University of Music and Performing Arts)
16:30
ÖAWI: Advising, Training and Networking
- Nicole Foeger (ÖAWI)
17:00
Get together (till 20:00/21:00)
Moderation
Stefan Bernhardt (IST Austria)
Speakers
Lex Bouter
Chair of the WCRIF
Professor Lex M Bouter, PhD, has a tenured chair in Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam. Before taking up the current position he was professor of Epidemiology and Rector of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 1988 he published a textbook on epidemiology, the seventh revised Dutch edition of which appeared in 2016 and the first English edition in 2018. Lex Bouter has a keen interest in clinimetrics and systematic reviews. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the REWARD (REduce research Waste And Reward Diligence) Alliance. He is currently mainly involved in teaching and research regarding responsible conduct of research, questionable research practices and research misconduct. In 2017 he organized and co-chaired the 5th World Conference on Research Integrity in Amsterdam and became chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation. Lex Bouter has supervised 74 PhD students, of whom to date 15 were appointed as professor.
Klement Tockner
Chair ÖAWI
President of the FWF
Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner is president of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and professor for Aquatic Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2007 and 2016 he was director of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin. He is a globally-recognized scientist on freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem management and has published more than 250 scientific papers. He has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects and is member of several scientific committees and international advisory boards. He is elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. He became Chairman of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (ÖAWI) in October 2017.
Christoph Kratky
Founder and first Chair of ÖAWI (2009-2014)
Former President of the FWF
Christoph Kratky studied chemistry and got his Ph.D. at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Professor Martin Karplus, Harvard University, USA, before becoming a University Assistant at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Graz, Austria. He obtained his habilitation in 1985 from the University of Graz and was promoted to Full Professor there in 1995. Subsequently, his research group was transferred to the Institute of Molecular Biosciences where his research interests focused on enzymes relevant for biocatalysis such as esterases, xylanases, oxygenases, and in particular the B12 cofactor, both in its free and enzyme-bound state. From 2005 to 2013 he was the President of the Austrian Science Fund FWF. He retired from his professorship in 2016.
Stephan Rixen
Chair of the ÖAWI Commission on Research Integrity
Stephan Rixen has been Professor of Public Law at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) since 2010. He has specialized in questions of health law and social (security) law including aspects of constitutional, European and international law. Since 2012, Stephan Rixen has been a member of the Committee on Research Integrity of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (ÖAWI). He became the chairperson of the Committee in 2015. The same year, he became a member of the German “Ombudsman für die Wissenschaft” (Ombudsman for Science and Humanities), a committee established by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) to give advice and resolve conflicts in the field of good scientific practice. Since 2016, he has been the chairperson of the German “Ombudsman” committee. His service as a member of the Committee on Research Integrity of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (ÖAWI) will be finished by the end of 2018.
Sabine Kleinert
Senior Editor Lancet
Sven Hendrix
Hasselt University
Ulrike Felt
University of Vienna
Karl-Gerhard Straßl
University of Music and Performing Arts
DDr. Karl-Gerhard Straßl MAS studied law at the University Vienna and organ (concert performance), cultural studies and postgraduate cultural management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2003 he works at the administration of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) and is head of the department of Organizational Law and Appointment Management for University Professors (ORB). He is the mdw plagiarism representative and responsible for establishment and leading the Competence Center for Academic Integrity.
Karl-Gerhard Straßl teaches at different universities and issued publications and articles in the field of university legislation, cultural rights and cultural policy. His interest is currently focused on Academic Integrity (particularly plagiarism), ghostwriting and artistic plagiarism. It is also important for him to be artistically active, therefore he works as organist at the Mt. Calvary Church in Vienna and conductor of two choirs.
Martina Baravalle
University of Music and Performing Arts
Nicole Föger
Head of the Administrative Office of ÖAWI
Nicole Foeger holds a PhD degree in biochemistry and worked as a researcher at the Medical University of Vienna, the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg (Germany) and at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Later on she also obtained a postgraduate education in Public Relations.
Since 2010 she is Head of the Administrative Office of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity and involved in all RI activities on the national level: giving trainings for researchers, advising in all matters of RI and supporting the independent national commission that offers a neutral and objective forum to be able to investigate cases of (alleged) research misconduct.
Since April 2012 Nicole Foeger is the elected Chair of the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) and involved in several European initiatives and EU-projects on research integrity as project partner or member of the advisory board.
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