Gaižauskaitė, Inga

Aim: European Network of Academic Integrity (ENAI) as a European platform will promote academic integrity issues, sharing experiences, ideas and materials to help higher education institutions prevent academic misconduct such as cheating, plagiarism, scientific misconduct, authorship, mobbing (bullying), discrimination and so on. In this sense, the core aim is to raise awareness in the matters of plagiarism, academic ethics and academic integrity. ENAI is focused both on all-cycle students, academics such as teaching staff, post-docs and administration and management staff).

Objectives: To achieve the aim, this project will: 1) build a platform for instill ethical standards in academia; 2) enhance better education in academic integrity as a subject of lifelong learning; and 3) stimulate the cooperation with business sector in strengthening the employer-employee relationship.

Main activities: This project consists of main four work packages (WP). WP1 is related to the creation of platform where main activities are the development of a rating system concerning academic integrity for higher education institutions, academic integrity awards. WP2 is related to the development of education and methodology where main activities are the development of educational materials such as videos courses, e-learning materials, workshops and so on, making research on academic integrity issues and elaboration of guidelines to embed academic integrity. WP3 refers to the cross-sector cooperation where main activities are the cooperation with business sector in terms of integrity. Finally, WP4 is devoted for the dissemination of project results.