Decisions

Date, No. Title
06/03/2025
No. SP-2
Concerning the complaint of 17 February 2025

Key words: academic ethics, procedures, disability, description, procedure, legislation, convention, competition

06/02/2025
No. SP-1
Concerning the complaint of 4 December 2024

Key words: competition, researcher, institute, appeal board, seminar

25/10/2024
No. SP-3
Concerning the complaint of 21 June 2024

Key words: final thesis, appeal board, interim review of final thesis, preparatory defence, methodological guidelines

25/10/2024
No. SP-2
Concerning the complaint of 17 June 2024

Key words: university, academic ethics, code, academic misconduct, academic community, academic ethics committee

06/05/2024
No. SP-1
Concerning the complaint of 20 January 2024

Keywords: student, lecturer, university, study module, mid-term report

02/06/2021
No. SP-5
Concerning the complaint of 11 November 2020*

Keywords: research data, data collection, data appropriation, research data management, authorship

*Information on the decision-making shall be published in the “Decisions” section on the Office’s website immediately after it has been made. The decision shall be published after the deadline for submitting an appeal of the decision of 30 days, and shall be posted for one year after its  publication. If a decision in appealed with court in the course of legal proceedings, the decision shall not be made public, and the calculation of the one-year term shall start from the effective date of the final procedural decision of the court.

In order to ensure the protection of personal data, the published decisions of the Ombudsperson shall contain solely the information necessary to achieve the aim pursued.

(art. 34 and 35 of Recommendations for Examining and Investigating Complaints and Reports at the Initiative of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures) VALID UNTIL 12 JULY 2021

 

The depersonalised information about the decision (decision’s title, number, date of adoption, and keywords) shall be announced immediately in section “Decisions” on the Office’s website. When the appeal term of 30 days matures, the decision shall be depersonalised and downloaded not later than within 10 workdays. The depersonalised decision shall be available in section “Decisions” on the Office’s website for one year after it has been downloaded. If the decision is appealed, the depersonalised decision shall not be publicly available in the course of the proceedings, and the term of one year shall be calculated from the day when the final procedural judgment enters into effect. The decision shall be depersonalised by the investigator, who has prepared its draft, or by another employee of the Office assigned by the ombudsperson, in accordance with the Rules for the Implementation of the Rights of Data Subjects in the Office of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures of the Republic of Lithuania. The published depersonalised decision shall be removed if the information about its appeal is learnt after its publishing.

To ensure the protection of personal data, the published decisions of the Ombudsperson shall contain solely the information necessary to achieve the aim pursued. In order to avoid the person’s recognition, the fictitious initials of the person shall be used in the decision’s text. The precise names of institutions, units and job titles shall not be used together.

(art. 30 and 31 of Procedure of Complaints Handling and Investigations at the Initiative of the Ombudsperson for Academic Ethics and Procedures) VALID FROM 13 JULY 2021

Updated: 8 April 2025