Path2Integrity coordinated and supported actions to promote a research integrity culture. The consortium divided its work into four phases: (1) mapping and analysis, (2) development, (3) implementation and dissemination and (4) effectivity. Path2Integrity completed all phases in June 2022.
Significant achievements of Path2Integrity include:
Objective 1:
An up-to-date map on innovative educational methods to learn research integrity
The Path2Integrity roadmap is a categorised collection of innovative and traditional educational materials usable for teaching and learning research integrity.
You can find the Path2Integrity Learning Card Programme in different languages here:
https://www.path2integrity.eu/ri-materials(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)Objective 2:
An up-to-date map on curricula in which research integrity is included nowadays
An up-to-date map of secondary school and university curricula that include research integrity, research ethics or associated fields was published as "Validation of the mapping of innovative methods and research integrity curricula" (Häberlein et al., 2019) in RIO Journal.
Objective 3:
A Path2Integrity RI-facts and role-model campaign and its assessment
Campaign materials were developed and subjected to the overall project evaluation. Regarding the campaign materials, the evaluation focused on assessing the project's strategies, content, and design. In this way, it helped to improve all materials before publishing and disseminating their final version.
You can find the material in different languages here:
https://www.path2integrity.eu/campaign-materials(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)Objective 4:
A Path2Integrity handbook of instructions and its assessment
At the end of 2020, Path2Integrity completed three target group-specific versions of the Path2Integrity handbook, called the Path2Integrity Learning Card Programme (P2ILC). The learning materials accompanying each handbook are the so-called learning cards. These cards outline learning units adaptable to different disciplines and utilise innovative teaching and learning methods, such as vivid storytelling, coming to an agreement and rotatory role-playing.
You can find the Path2Integrity Learning Card Programme in different languages here:
https://www.path2integrity.eu/ri-materials(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)Objective 5:
A Path2Integrity training programme for educators
This objective describes the overall goal of WP4, which started at the beginning of 2020. A notable step towards this goal was compiling a needs assessment plan and its approval by the consortium in March 2020.
Path2Integrity developed the first version of the Path2Integrity curriculum for educators with the contribution of the consortium and advisory board members.You can find the videos of the training programme here:
https://www.path2integrity.eu/ri-materials(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)Objective 6:
The Path2Integrity training centre
The Path2Integrity training centre builds upon the Path2Integrity learning card programme (P2ILC) and the training programme for educators (P2ITE).
Objective 7:
The Path2Integrity campaign
Implementing the Path2Integrity campaign builds upon developing the campaign materials. The communication channels to reach stakeholders were established by WP7 during the first 15 months of the project implementation, particularly by establishing and maintaining a recognisable project brand as well as by communicating and broadly disseminating the project results to a wide range of target groups, including secondary school students and higher education students, on the one hand, and their teachers and professors on the other.
Objective 8:
The effectivity of the Path2Integrity two components
WP6 laid the ground to test the effectiveness of Path2Integrity's two-component approach in Deliverable 6.1. Due to irregular teaching conditions after school and university closures during (the first wave of) the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, Task 6.4 continued until June 2022. Deliverable 6.3 describes the effectivity of Path2Integrity's two components.
Objective 9:
Synergies with European projects promoting and teaching research integrity
Path2Integrity has established close relations with INTEGRITY, VIRT2UE, EnTIRE and ENERI. It has also developed a systematic map of the projects that depict how they relate to each other and jointly contribute to fostering a culture of research integrity. Path2Integrity, VIRT2UE and INTEGRITY conducted a pre-conference workshop on research integrity education at the World Conference on Research Integrity 2022. Moreover, Path2Integrity presented the cluster of projects at the World Educational Research Association Conference 2021 and the ENRIO Congress 2021.
Objective 10:
Outreach to policymakers and stakeholders
Path2Integrity developed specific outreach activities. In this context, Path2Integrity appointed an international policymaker and stakeholder board to support the embedding of the project in the broader research and education community. . In March 2021, board members participated in two online panel discussions on "Embedding research integrity educational institutions: fostering responsible research from secondary school to higher education" and "Promoting research integrity education: the role of funding organisations, publishers, policymakers and international cooperation".
