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Everyone involved in education and research at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ bears personal responsibility for observing and maintaining scientific integrity. At ¹û¶³´«Ã½ we require strict compliance with the overall principles of professional scientific conduct in all cases.

is the leading national code of conduct for all Dutch universities. The code is based on five principles: Honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, independence and responsibility.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ also has its own . This ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Code of Conduct offers a more concise version, which also takes into account the specific characteristics of scientific activities at a university of technology. The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ code therefore includes norms for design-oriented activities, and it restricts the confidentiality of data and research results in the interests of researchers (e.g., PhDs, post-docs, EngDs). At other points, where there are differences in nuance or formulation, the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity prevails.

At ¹û¶³´«Ã½ we highly value that research and educational activities are conducted with societal responsibility. This is especially important for activities involving human participants or personally identifiable data. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ therefore promotes ethical awareness amongst researchers and students.

At ¹û¶³´«Ã½, a central Ethical Review Board (ERB) is installed by the Executive Board in which all departments are represented. The aim of the ERB is to stimulate ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers and students to carry out research in accordance with accepted ethical standards and to act in accordance with existing laws and regulations. From 2020 on, all relevant research within ¹û¶³´«Ã½ needs to be reviewed by the ERB before the onset of the study. The ERB strives to incorporate existing laws and regulations on personal data, privacy and research data management into the ethical review procedures, in order to facilitate researchers as efficiently as possible. Research which is subjected to the Law on Medical Scientific Research involving Human Beings (WMO) or the Medical Devices Act (WMH) should be reviewed by an accredited Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC, outside the ¹û¶³´«Ã½). ¹û¶³´«Ã½ offers support during the ethical reviewing procedures.

More information can be found on the (for internal use only).

You can contact the ERB by emailing ERB secretary dr. Jolanda Habraken via ethics[at]tue.nl.

The Executive board of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ supports the European Commission actively in promoting Research Integrity in Horizon Europe. In the , fundamental principles of Research Integrity are described such as: reliability, honesty, respect, and accountability. To facilitate and ensure that researchers can translate these principles into their own responsible research practices, the European Commission asks all Research Performing Organizations (RPOs) to provide a Research Integrity Promotion Plan (RIPP). This plan covers nine topics related to Research Integrity and describes how the organization (through appropriate procedures, policies and structures) facilitates researchers in all these topics. ¹û¶³´«Ã½'s RIPP is available upon request.

The Code of Conduct on Openness in Animal Experiments has been drawn up to put into practice the broadly supported view in society that openness on scientific research with animals is desirable and necessary.

Animal experiments at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ fall under the responsibility of the Animal Experiments Center (‘Centrale Proefdiervoorziening’) of Maastricht University. For more information, including the Annual Report on Animal Experiments, please see the website of  (‘Dier Experimenten Commissie’) of Maastricht University.