Event Date: May 15, 2024
Event time: 9:00 h - 17:30 h
Event Location: EARMA Office
Event Address: Rue des Colonies 56, Brussels, Belgium
About the Event
Our community plays a central role not only in promoting good scientific practice, but also in implementing policies and procedures to deal with possible cases of research misconduct or, more constructively, to prevent questionable practices. Join us in 'Working for the best... But Ready for the Worst', where we will move from the most general aspects, including the European framework and proposals for a coordinated approach, to very specific issues that challenge good practice in the field of scientific publications, predatory journals, and (of course) AI.
Agenda
The last updated agenda can be found here.
Registration Information
Registration for this meeting is open till May 6, 2024, or until reaches maximum capacity. However, we might still be able to offer you a place afterward if someone cancels. Please, contact us at earma@earma.org.
Logistic Information
The EARMA Office is only a 5-minute walk from Gare Centrale. Situated across from Brussels Park, it offers easy access to nature's beauty. Moreover, the Office enjoys excellent transportation links, allowing guests to effortlessly explore the city's attractions via metros, buses, trams, and taxis.
If accommodation is needed, we recommend staying in the Motel One Brussels just a couple of minutes from the EARMA office, or in a close area where good options are 9Hotel Central, Pillows City Hotel Brussels Centre, Hotel Hubert Grand Place, or Hilton Brussels Grand Place.
Registration Confirmation
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Registration Fee
You can register by clicking the yellow button above.
Member participation fee: 180 Euros + VAT
Non-member participation fee: 280 Euros + VAT
At own expense: Transport and accommodation
About the EARMA ERION Thematic Group
ERION is the Ethics and Research Integrity Officer Network within EARMA. It is an open community to discuss the practical and implementation side of Research Ethics and Integrity. The community is for all those that need to ensure compliance, efficiency, functionality, fairness, and robustness in the practices and processes in their organisation. Such people may have titles such as Ethics/Integrity Officer, Administrator, and many others. You should have the role of a practitioner within your organisation. This event is NOT about Research in Ethics or Research Integrity.
ERION acts as a stakeholder for the European Commission DG R&I Ethics Sector. A key component of ERION are the European projects on ethics, integrity, responsible research: SOPs4RI, iRECS, PATTERN which are working for a strong responsible research integrity culture in Europe and increasing trust in science.
The community meets 2 to 4 times per year. Topics discussed in past ERION meetings included: Horizon Europe, Open Science, GDPR implementation, training (see report), ethics support in times of COVID-19, research evaluation and many others. More information on the EARMA website and EARMA YouTube channel.
There are around 400 members in the community. To get connected and engage with the other community members, register here.
Speakers
Isidoros Karatzas is the Head of the Research Ethics and Integrity Sector, European Commission (EC), DG Research & Innovation, in Brussels Belgium. He is responsible for the methodological and operational aspects of the Framework Programmes Ethics Appraisal procedure. In addition, through the Framework programme funding, he is responsible for the policy input of research projects related to research ethics and research integrity in emerging technologies, standard operating procedures to promote research ethics and research integrity and innovative methods for teaching and training in research ethics and integrity.
Bert Seghers, a mathematician by training, since 2014 coordinates the Flemish Commission for Research Integrity (VCWI) at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, where he also runs the back-office of the Young Academy of Belgium (Flanders). He co-established the Belgian Reproducibility Network in 2021 and follows the recent Network on Education in Research Quality NERQ. He has represented VCWI in the European Network of Research Integrity Offices ENRIO for the last ten years and now serves in ENRIO's Board.
Stefanie Van der Burght was co-chair of ERION, the Ethics and Research Integrity Officers Network of EARMA from 2018 untill 2022. She is the Research Integrity Advisor at Ghent University, Belgium. She is a criminologist by training and started her career as a researcher in Social Sciences. Now she is responsible for policy development concerning research integrity in all it's aspects and implementation in the research community. Stefanie develops and gives training(tools) on RI for all research staff and those involved in research. She is also a certified VIRT2EU trainer and a trained P2ITE trainer. Ghent University is official pilot institution in the SOPs4RI project and has a Research Integrity Promotion Plan in place. Stefanie Van der Burght was secretary of the Commission for Research Integrity of Ghent University from 2012 until 2021.
Jonas Åkerman is a docent (reader/associate professor) in philosophy and Research Integrity and Ethics Coordinator at Stockholm University. He was co-chair of ERION 2018-2022, and is still a member of the ERION core group. Other engagements include the expert group on ethics within the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution, the advisory group for a national inquiry on the Swedish system for ethical review, the ethics sounding board of RRP at TU Wien, and several EU-projects. He has also recently worked for the Swedish Research Council, writing a revised version of their guidance document Good Research Practice.
Eva Casamitjana-Martínez graduated in Biology from the University of Barcelona, Eva Casamitjana moved to the Netherlands where she obtained a PhD in Developmental Genetics at the University of Utrecht in 2003. After postgraduate training in international cooperation, she worked for several NGO's with a primary focus on health where she gained specific training in international cooperation and some field experience. She joined ISGlobal as a Scientific Coordinator in 2008. Since 2021 she is also an Associated Professor at the University Pompeu Fabra's Department of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Daniel Kulp is the founder of PIE (Publication Integrity & Ethics) Consulting, LLC. He has been in scholarly publishing for over 27 years. Dan started in 1996 as a professional full-time editor for Physical Review B, published by the American Physical Society, and eventually advanced to the position of Editorial Director for the entire Physical Review portfolio. In 2020, he joined the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) as Editorial Director and his most recent role with ACS was Senior Director, Research Integrity & Global Developments. Dan has been involved in all aspects of publishing including peer review, publication ethics, production, distribution, and personnel and financial management of journals.
Mathijs Vleugel is a science policy expert at ALLEA - the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. Mathijs obtained his PhD in cell biology from Utrecht University and did his postdoctoral research in biophysics at Delft University of Technology. After four years as a scientific editor in London and Berlin, Mathijs joined ALLEA in 2021, where he oversees a diverse range of activities related to Open Science, Research Integrity, and Research Assessment. www.allea.org
Borana Taraj is working as Head of EU projects for EARMA. She joined EARMA in 2019 working on the topic of research ethics and integrity. She has been deeply involved in strengthening the EARMA Ethics and Research Integrity community as well as shaping the outcomes of the H2020 project "Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity", representing the voice of research managers. Since 2022, Borana is also involved in new EARMA projects and community building activities for creating framework conditions and communities of practice for research management to strengthen the European Research Area. She has been working in Brussels since 2013 for several policy initiatives and European-funded projects in research ethics and integrity, energy and business environment for instance at the European University Association, Ernst & Young and the European Commission. She is knowledgeable about university networks and European projects, in particular coordination and support actions for EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation (FP7, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe).
Teodora Konach is a researcher and trainer at the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (OeAWI). In her current role, she is leading the project-based research activities at the Agency, including the pilot studies for the EU Horizon 2020 funded project SOPs4RI and the development of strategic policies and guidelines on Responsible Open Science in the ROSiE Horizon 2020 funded project. She is also responsible for the training and prevention programmes at the OeAWI. With a background in legal, social and cultural studies, Teodora’s interests lie at the intersection of organisational and critical management studies, implementation science and research integrity and ethics. Within the Open Science movement, she is broadly interested in legal and ethical challenges in emerging technologies and in technology transfer, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property rights and cultural rights of individuals and communities. In 2023 she joined EARMA as a project manager and research analyst. She is mostly involved in the EU funded projects, in the fields of research integrity and ethics. Furthermore, she is supporting EARMA’s European Network of Ethics and Research Integrity Officers (ERION). Since 2019 Teodora cooperates as an external expert and evaluator with the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA), the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and the Council of Europe.
Joana Porcel-Carbonell with a PhD in neuropsychology worked as neuropsychologist and researcher at Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital of Barcelona (1996-2006). Since 2006, she works in research management for private and public organisations. Since 2016, she has been the head of the Projects Unit at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), where she also provides support to researchers on ethics and good scientific practices. In 2018, she was appointed Data Protection Officer of ISGlobal. She's also ethics advisor in European projects and ethics expert at the European Commission for the implementation, evaluation and monitoring of H2020 / Horizon Europe proposals and projects (including ERC, MSCA, HADEA, IHI, EISMEA). She is a representative member at the PRBB Good Scientific Practices Working Group (2013-) and core member of the EARMA Research Ethics and Integrity Officers Network (ERION); from Sep 2022, she is co-chairing the ERION network.
Susan Hommerson works as policy officer for medical device research at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In her role, she supports the organization and researchers with the set-up of policy, SOPs and quality frameworks for medical/device research thus ensuring compliance. Furthermore, she is involved in the implementation of Research Integrity promotion plan of the Sops4RI project. With these activities, she aims to contribute to patient protection and creating ethical awareness in research, especially in the development of novel technologies such as AI and regenerative medicine.
Laura Pontiggia, as Policy Analyst at the ERC Executive Agency since March 2009, Laura supports the Scientific Council and performs strategic policy analyses on the links between frontier research, innovation and economic growth and is the Secretary to the ERC Standing Committee dealing with conflict of interests, scientific misconduct and ethical issues (CoIME).
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