Fundamental principles of research integrity
Reliability in ensuring the quality of research, reflected in the design, methodology, analysis, and use of resources.
Honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting, and communicating research in a transparent, fair, full, and unbiased way.
Respect for colleagues, research participants, research subjects, society, ecosystems, cultural heritage, and the environment.
Accountability for the research from idea to publication, for its management and organisation, for training, supervision, and mentoring, and for its wider societal impacts.
Fundamental legal principles
Democracy reflects an equality before the law and having equal access to legislative processes.
Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is recognizing the inherent dignity and equal, inalienable rights of all people, ensuring freedoms like expression, belief, and assembly, and protecting essential entitlements such as life, work, and education, forming the bedrock of fairness, democracy, and peaceful societies globally, upheld by international law and national constitutions.
The rule of law includes equality before the law, transparency and openness, an independent judiciary, separation of powers, and ensuring laws are fair and accessible.
Social market economy
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.
Free foreign trade as a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.
Free formation of prices are set by the natural forces of supply and demand in a market, without government control, reflecting consumer desires and producer costs, acting as signals for resource allocation in a market economy.