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Scientific Integrity
With a jointly developed code on scientific integrity, swissuniversities, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency Innosuisse and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences are committed to ensuring that integrity is practiced and misconduct avoided in the scientific community. A Center of Competence set up by the Swiss Conference of Higher Education Institutions supports higher education institutions in their tasks with regard to scientific integrity and strengthens their collaboration in this field.
A survey carried out by swissuniversities in 2024 reflects the implementation of the Code at Swiss higher education institutions.
Open Science
Open Science aims to make science and thus the fundamentals and results of scientific research accessible to the public, thereby contributing significantly to promoting transparency and reproducibility in research. The Programme Open Science II of swissuniversities implements various measures to promote free access to scientific publications (Open Access, OA), the open dissemination of research data (Open Research Data, ORD) and other innovative areas of open science.
Among other things, the programme supports two activities that address ethical/legal requirements at higher education institutions as well as cooperation with industry and private partners:
- Firstly, a project on open science and knowledge security is preparing a report to provide higher education institutions and researchers with helpful options for making science open and secure.
- Secondly, in the dimension ORD (Open Research Data) of the programme, Action Line D2.5 aims to develop guidelines for ORD for collaborations with the private sector. The mandate analyses the existing rules, i.e. the legal framework, for sharing data from collaborations with the private sector and documents current practices in this context.
Further information on these and other measures of the Programme Open Science II can be found here.