Research Culture
Across Europe and beyond, there is growing recognition that a healthy research culture is essential for enabling excellence, strengthening integrity, and supporting equitable, inclusive, and sustainable research environments. ALLEA is committed to shaping such an ecosystem – one in which researchers at all career stages and their work can truly thrive. Through dedicated expert groups, strategic collaborations, and distinguished projects, ALLEA advances responsible research practices through standards of integrity and ethics, drives reform in research assessment, promotes equity, diversity and inclusion, and spearheads efforts to green research. Explore the activities below to learn how these initiatives come together to foster a research culture that nurtures a trustworthy, fair, and futureproof research landscape.
Research Integrity and Research Ethics
Research integrity touches on the ethos of science and is guided by the rules imposed on the research community by itself. As such, research integrity aims at providing a comprehensive framework for scientists as to how to carry out their work within accepted ethical frameworks as well as following good scientific practice.
Research Assessment
ALLEA became an early signatory of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA), published in July 2022, and is part of the associated Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Academia
Following a decision by the ALLEA General Assembly 2023, ALLEA Member Academies affirmed their dedication to acknowledging the importance of improving EDI in the research community. Since then, they have shared their policies and initiatives for improving EDI with a newly established ALLEA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research.
As institutions that both study and shape society, research-performing and research-funding organisations have a responsibility to align their practices with the science they produce. Achieving a “greener” research ecosystem will require cultural change, new incentives, and coordinated action across researchers, administrators, funders, and policymakers.
ALLEA’s activities on advancing climate sustainability in academia are led by the newly established Net Zero Task Force.
