Programm
Scientific Integrity
9. Dezember 2021, via Zoom
The German Commission for UNESCO, in cooperation with UNESCO's sectors for the Natural as well as Social and Human Sciences, hosts a global digital exchange of ideas and experiences on Scientific Integrity for stakeholders from UNESCO-related networks and science policy.
Date, Time: 9 December 2021, 12:00-17:00 CET
Working languages: English and French (interpretation available)
Participation: by invitation only. For any inquiries, please contact @email
Registration at: https://unesco-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0td-uppzosH9MGpsXIyhNy1hrOHWxhIeuV
Flyer as PDF (English/French): link
Programme as PDF (English/French): link
Rationale:
The importance of scientific quality assurance is a key lesson from the Covid-19 pandemic – in addition to the importance of Open Science. Any falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism has serious implications for the trust in science. Ensuring scientific integrity assures the quality, validity and reliability of the scientific results and ensures legitimising the resources that societies invest in science. Scientific quality assurance and thus, ensuring Scientific Integrity, is necessary in the entire scientific process: from setting the agenda to the study design, from collection and processing of data to the publication and interpretation of results. It touches upon ethical as well as technical questions.
Thus, by this digital meeting, UNESCO and the German Commission for UNESCO would like to complement the achievements already made in the formulation of the UNESCO Open Science recommendation adopted on 23 November 2021; building as well on the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers.
