The Albanian Erasmus+ Office and Albanian HERE team jointly organized the National HERE Seminar on ‘Needs and Instruments Development about Research and Innovation Ethics in Albania’, was held at premises of Polytechnic University of Tirana, on 20-21 November 2024.
The two days seminar was attended by representatives from several public and private universities, including vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of international relations offices.
The seminar was also attended by the EU Delegation to Albania. Ms. Johanna Morawska, the SPHERE expert, shared her valuable expertise with the participants for two days.
The key outcomes of the seminar regarding policy measures that Albanian universities aim to address at the national level include:
- Plagiarism detection should be applied to bachelor and master students – to be included in the ethics regulation as obligatory instrument in all higher education institutions
- It is important to have the code of ethics in order to valorize the integrity and honesty of the researchers, by creating a system of meritocracy, while following the updated version EU Code of Conduct.
- It is urgent to have a legal framework about ethics in innovation and research based on an ad-hoc analyses of the research practices at research and higher education institutions. – no such analyses have been conducted so far.
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