ONGOING PROJECTS
Project “BRIDGING INTEGRITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY“ (reference: 2020-1-SE01-KA203-077973)
The main aim of the Project: to create a bridge between academic integrity, research integrity, integrity in business, and society in order to reach a broader understanding and transparency of integrity between these fields, as well as interrelated skills and qualifications needed to act in accordance with academic integrity values.
Funding: Erasmus+ programme, Key Action “Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices”, Action Type “Strategic Partnerships for higher education”
Start of the Project: 1 September 2020
End of the Project: 31 August 2023
Project team: dr. Julija Umbrasaitė (project manager and researcher), dr. Birutė Liekė (researcher)
Project results: https://www.academicintegrity.eu/wp/bridge/
IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS
Project “MOBILISING DATA, POLICIES AND EXPERTS IN SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS” (CA17106)
The main aim of the Action: to build an inclusive, bottom-up and responsive network to address the urgent challenges around the mobilisation and linking of natural science collections reference information. The Action focuses on knowledge and technology transfer across stakeholder communities, related projects and Research Infrastructures.
Website of the Action: https://www.mobilise-action.eu/
Funding: COST programme
End of the Action: April 2023
End of country representatives in the COST Action Management Committee: January 2022
Project “CITIZEN SCIENCE TO PROMOTE CREATIVITY, SCIENTIFIC LITERACY, AND INNOVATION THROUGHOUT EUROPE” (CA15212)
The main aim of the Action: to bundle capacities across Europe to investigate and extend the impact of the scientific, educational, policy, and civic outcomes of citizen science in order to gauge the potential of citizen science as enabler of social innovation and socio-ecological transition.
Office’s role in the Action: WG4 ‘Enhance the role of CS for civil society’ co-chairing under the leadership of Dr. Artemis Skarlatidou from the University College London (United Kingdom).
As a potential outcome of this Action to the Office would be the development of guidelines for ethics assurance in citizen science projects.
Website of the Action: https://www.cs-eu.net/
Funding: COST programme
End of the Action: September 2020
Country representatives in the COST Action Management Committee:
Dr. Loreta Tauginienė (substitute – prof. Dr. Alvydas Baležentis (21/09/2016–20/01/2019); Regimantas Juras (21/01/2019–17/10/2019); Gintarė Židonė (since 18/10/2019)
Prof. Dr. Eglė Butkevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology) (substitute – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Vaidelytė)
Updated: 3 July 2023
