The goal of EnTIRE is to develop an on-line, open source Wiki based platform, designed by and for the RE+RI community: The Embassy of Good Science (www.embassy.science). The ambition of this community-based initiative is to make the RE+RI normative framework accessible, foster active participation of the scientific community, and support the quality of science by making knowledge and experience in RE+RI available and useable. The stakeholder consultation, conducted during the first year of the project, reflected the project’s bottom-up approach and provided the basis for the design of the platform and selection and description of content. The platform was launched for the research community in June 2019 during the 6th WCRI (see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvsVzqhRCNg&feature=youtu.be(si apre in una nuova finestra)). Since then, users have been able to navigate a curated collection of tools which aim to support them in improving their own and their institution’s practices. The platform, gives access to: national, institutional and discipline specific guidelines on RE+RI; descriptions of cases and scenarios for teaching; freely available RE+RI educational resources; ‘themes’ in RE+RI (i.e. short articles describing relevant ethics and research integrity issues and topics), country reports, and an interactive community section. Content can be filtered and compared per discipline and country. In this way it is possible to organize a wide range of background information, examples of good practices, cases, and guidelines. A dedicated ‘Training’ section provides access to free online training materials and courses , but also gives information about opportunities to follow more traditional in-person courses on integrity issues experienced in practice. The training guide for the European Commission funded VIRT2UE train-the-trainer programme, for example, is fully presented on The Embassy.
All of these sections of the platform are open for the contributions of users who can directly add or edit content. Through a commitment to open source and open data approaches The Embassy of Good Science aims to become a dynamic, customer-tailored, up-to date, sustainable, user-friendly on-line platform. To achieve this goal an appealing, high-quality, user-friendly platform experience was created and made available at
https://www.embassy.science/(si apre in una nuova finestra).
In terms of overall achieved objectives, the project has:
1) conducted and implemented the results of an in-depth stakeholder consultation across EU countries (WP2);
2) made available a collection of the relevant normative elements, including RE+RI rules and procedures (WP3), a list of educational materials, relevant institutions and experts across EU countries (WP4) and a collection of illustrative cases and scenarios (WP5);
3) developed a user-friendly platform to facilitate access to RE+RI knowledge and experience, support application in research and evaluation and foster uptake of ethical standards and responsible conduct of research (WP6);
4) fostered the further development of the RE+RI community, by establishing a dedicated Community Section for RE+RI initiatives to support collaboration, dissemination, and use of the Embassy (WP7).
