Responsible RDI activities

Responsible RDI activities at HAMK

Responsible research, development and innovation (RDI) in HAMK contributes to the overall development of society in a more sustainable way, ecologically, economically and socially. We promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals through our RDI activities.

Our responsible RDI activities are underpinned by established areas of responsible science on the one hand, and trust-based business partnerships for commercialisation, entrepreneurship and other business activities on the other.

At HAMK, responsible science practices include research ethics, equality and accessibility (DEIA), open science and responsible researcher assessment.

We support companies in open innovation, where the innovation process involves collaboration with other actors, such as knowledge producers or users.

Ethics and responsibility

Reliable and credible research, development and innovation is based on ethical conduct. Research ethics is part of responsible RDI. Ethical considerations cover the whole RDI process in all projects, including data protection and security. Compliance with responsible conduct of research is required in all RDI projects in HAMK.

Together with other Finnish universities and research institutes, HAMK is committed to the guidelines and codes of practice of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK.

More information about HAMK’s practices can be found on our website.

Openness

Openness is a key principle of science and research, aiming to increase the transparency, replicability and reproducibility and societal impact of research results. Open science and research can be seen as a continuum, encompassing the whole research process and the culture in which research is conducted. With open science and research, research results are quickly available to other researchers, making their exploitation more diverse and efficient.

At HAMK, open science and research is referred to as open RDI activities, which means the use of open approaches in HAMK’s research, development, innovation and teaching. HAMK’s open RDI activities are based on the Open Science Research Reference Architecture and the FAIR principles in the life cycle management of RDI materials.

HAMK’s open RDI activities aim to ensure that the methods, materials, results and outputs used in projects are available to all interested parties within the limits of research ethics and legal requirements (e.g. confidentiality, trade secrets, confidential and copyrighted material). HAMK’s open RDI practices enable companies, decision-makers and citizens to participate in research. These practices include open access to publications, opening up the research process, designing data management and ensuring the continued use of data.

HAMK’s principles and policies on openness can be found in more detail on our website.

Research permit at HAMK

Does your research focus on HAMK activities, staff or students? If so, you will need permission from HAMK before starting the research.

Responsible researcher assessment

At HAMK, we are committed to the National Recommendation for Responsible Assessment of Researchers (in Finnish) and to the international Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (CoARA), which means that we follow the general principles of responsible assessment in recruitment and career development: transparency, integrity, equity, competence and diversity:

• Transparency means that the evaluation process and its steps are openly described and understood by all actors. The desicions made during the evaluation process must be justified and reliably documented.
• Integrity means that the evaluation work is carried out with integrity, due care and attention to detail.
• Equity means that everyone is assessed equally and impartially. The assessment should be based only on relevant factors that have been brought to the attention of all parties.
• Competence means that evaluators are familiar with the principles and practices of responsible researcher assessment. The evaluators must have the necessary content knowledge for the evaluation and be familiar with the objectives and methods of the evaluation process.
• Diversity means that the evaluation process acknowledges the diversity of research and research outputs.

In addition to these general principles, we are continuously developing our own processes for researcher evaluation based on the national recommendation.