When it comes to teaching and research, UvA employees have wide freedom in terms of their choice of subjects and research methods, how they inform themselves, present themselves in public and publish their work. At the same time, they have a duty to justify the choices they make and to conduct research with integrity, which is to say in a reliable, honest, careful and responsible manner.
An open research culture
The University helps its employees to counter controversial research practices. We do so by promoting a culture in which researchers work together, discuss problems and solutions and admit to errors.
Accessible confidential advisers
If there is a suspicion that academic integrity has been violated, students, staff and others can contact one of the UvA’s confidential advisers. They are easily accessible and act as the first point of contact for questions and concerns about academic integrity.
Clear guidelines
Complaints about violations of academic integrity are handled by the Academic Integrity Committee. This is done on the basis of the Academic Integrity Complaints Procedure. The faculties and research institutes have also drawn up their own specific guidelines on academic integrity.
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Academic Integrity Complaints Regulations
The Academic Integrity Complaints Regulations describe what is meant by violating academic integrity and describes the UvA procedure for submitting a complaint.
Submitting a complaint must not be detrimental to the complainant unless the complainant has not acted in good faith. The same applies to witnesses, experts, confidential advisers and committee members.
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Faculty guidelines for academic integrity
Follow the links below for more specific guidelines per faculty and research institute.
Economics and Business
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Science
- Informatics Institute
- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
- Institute of Physics
- Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Confidential advisers for academic integrity
Each UvA campus has one confidential adviser for academic integrity. The confidential advisers have expertise in their own field, but operate UvA-wide. Employees, students and others can choose for themselves which adviser they wish to approach.
Tasks
The confidential advisers for academic integrity have three tasks:
- to serve as a point of contact for questions about the academic integrity
- to mediate complaints, where possible, or determines some other amicable resolution
- to provide information about the procedure for submitting a complaint to the Academic Integrity Committee
Contact
University Quarter
Roeterseiland Campus
Prof. dr. A.M.B. (Annette) de GrootFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Brain and Cognition
Science Park
ACTA
dr. ir. J.H. (Jan Harm) Koolstra
vertrouwenspersoon.wetenschap@acta.nlAmsterdam UMC
Prof. E.T. (Ed) van Bavel, e.vanbavel@amc.uva.nl 020-566 5203
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Academic Integrity Committee
The Academic Integrity Committee investigates complaints about possible violations of academic integrity and subsequently issues a recommendation to the Executive Board. The Committee’s anonymised recommendations are made available to everyone through the Committee’s annual reports.
Committee members
- Prof. J.E. Soeharno (chair)
- Prof. N. Peters (member)
- Prof. A.J.D. de Moor-van Vugt (member)
Contact details
- E: wi-jz@uva.nl
- T: (+31) 020 525 2736
Annual reporting
The Committee reports annually on the recommendations it has issued. Please note: These annual reports are available in Dutch only.
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Advisory report and codes of conduct
UvA advisory report for academic integrity
The advisory report ‘Integrity policy and research culture’ contains recommendations for a UvA policy to guarantee academic integrity. Download a summary of the UvA advisory report (in Dutch).
The full advisory report is available to UvA employees on the staff website. Read the full report in Dutch (staff login required).
The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
The UvA adheres to the principles of Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (VSNU 2018). According to the code, researchers must respect the principles of scrupulousness, reliability, verifiability, impartiality and independence, and are expected to do everything possible to promote and ensure compliance with these principles in their academic environments. In the event of a suspected violation of academic integrity, the UvA will always make all research and research data available for inspection, under confidentiality conditions determined by the Executive Board.
European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity is the European research community’s framework for self-regulation. The European Commission sees the Code as a reference document for research integrity in all EU-funded research projects.