Council of Europe call for best practices in promoting academic integrity during Covid-19

The Education Department of the Council of Europe launched the application period for Best Practice Programme in Promoting Academic Integrity during Covid-19, open until 20 August.

The Best Practice Programme in Promoting Academic Integrity is in line with the ETINED mission, specifically with “sharing information and good practices among member states in the widest possible way and raising awareness of the issues of ethics, transparency and integrity in education”.

For this first year, the programme will focus on solutions found to promote academic integrity during the Covid-19 health crisis in the following categories:

• Teaching and learning
• Policy
• Procedures
• Communication
• Governance/structures
• Training

Higher education institutions recognised as belonging to the education system of one of the 50 states parties to the European Cultural Convention, as well as student unions, are eligible to apply. Responding to this call will give higher education institutions the opportunity to showcase and publicise their practices, bring attention to them, and maybe even inspire others.

The selected cases will be published and disseminated, and an award ceremony will be organised in Strasbourg or online in late autumn 2021.