Conférence "Scientific Integrity: and so what?"

Is research integrity not just obvious to each researcher and each mentor? How much important and most of all, how frequent is misconduct in the scientific world? The EU Council on research integrity adopted in December 2015 the “European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity" developed by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and All European Academies (ALLEA). Since then, all European countries should have implemented those fundamental recommendations in order “to respect the highest integrity standards in performing research and communicating it for the benefit of humanity now and in the future” In fact, research integrity concerns a vast topic and the origin of misconduct in the research world should be analyzed and defeated. Our “digital” world facilitates producing and disseminating false results, plagiarism and many more subtle misbehaving. The Covid crisis has probably made those issues concerning research integrity more acutely visible and “Science” has been questioned by the world. So, yes, integrity matters a lot without hampering freedom in research!