Open Science and Ethics

To ensure compliance with mandatory and recommended Open Science practices we commit to:

  1. Write and upload a living Data Management Plan;
  2. Upload the datasets on trusted repository and ensuring their compliance with the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reuse);
  3. Upload all the research outcomes on the HAL Open Science archive, making them freely accessible to other researchers;
  4. Disseminate the outputs preferably via open access journals and apply the Creative Commons license.

In accordance with The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity, we commit to respecting research ethics and integrity by practising honest and responsible research, excluding data Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism (FFP) as well as all other Questionable Research Practices (QRP). The principles that will guide us during the research are:

  1. Reliability in ensuring the quality of research, reflected in the design, the methodology, the analysis, and the use of resources.
  2. Honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting, and communicating research in a transparent, fair, full, and unbiased way.
  3. Respect for colleagues, research participants, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage, and the environment.
  4. Accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organization, for training, supervision, and mentoring, and for its wider impacts.

In accordance with The European Green Deal, we will limit carbon emissions generated by unnecessary travel, especially by plane. We will also limit paper use, prioritizing PDFs and other digital formats.

If issues related to the access and exploitation of animal or plant genetic resources will arise during the project, they will be subjected to the Nagoya Protocol.

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