#theethics

Even if we are busy writing and working on our report, we took some time this Sunday for a team-bonding dinner. As you can see we were all extremely happy with the all-you-can-eat tapas! We had an amazing evening eating and discussing about our project but also our future plans! 

Here we are finalizing our report and try to think for the best recommendations for the UM Platform for Research Integrity and Ethics. Look at this teamwork! Working aways together even when we are in distance.

Hey all! Today we submitted our final report to Premium were we include all of our findings. After 6 months of hard work, meeting with professors and students, we managed to conclude our report and make our recommendations for the platform. We all agreed that research integrity and scientific ethics should be included in every faculty of Maastricht University and should be taught in a more interactive way, for instance, through lectures and debates. This will help students to become ethical young professionals that can adhere to the relevant research standards of their field of studies.

Apart from completing our project, these 6 months were a great experience for us as well. We had a lot of good times and working on this project was a pleasure for all of us. 

Special thanks go of course to our mentor Jascha and our coaches, Juanita and Ellen who were always there for us. We would also like to thank Premium for this experience and especially Fabianne who helped us a lot with the organization of our focus groups.

But our project does not end here. Our final step will be on the 21st June where we are going to present our findings to the UM Platform of Research Ethics and Integrity.

Lastly, we would like to thank you guys for all the likes and support in Tumblr and for reading our page regularly. We wish you all good luck and we are going to see you on Wednesday.

The deadline for submitting our reports is rapidly approaching and we are working hard! However, we still have time to check for interesting Articles that are relevant for our project. This one is one of our favorites! Go check it out and tell us your opinion.

Even though it is exam week for some of us, our team is working hard! Yesterday members of our team attended the lecture “Research Ethics and Integrity” by Professor Klaas Sijtsma from Tilburg University. Apart from gaining a better understanding of  “Research Ethics and Integrity” and their impact, we expanded also our network by raising awareness for our project and inviting more participants to our focus groups.  

In case you are interested but you forgot o register to one of our focus groups, don’t worry you still have time. Use the link that you can find in our previous post.