On this page you can search summaries of statements issued by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK concerning allegations of violations of research integrity (RI).

Allegations of RI violations are always investigated within the organisation in which the suspected violation occurred or where the person against whom the allegation is made was working when it occurred. Once the allegation has first been addressed under the organisation’s RI process, the party dissatisfied with the ruling may request a statement from TENK. 

On this page is a list of organisations that have committed to compling with The ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences in Finland. Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK guidelines 2019 (PDF).

Universities 

On this page is a list of organisations that have committed themselves to following TENK's guidelines The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Procedures for Handling Alleged Violations of Research Integrity in Finland 2023 (PDF) also known as the RI Guideline and Responsible conduct of research and procedures for handling allegations of misconduct in Finland.

Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK was founded in 1991 to address ethical questions relating to research and to the advancement of research ethics in Finland (Decree 1347 of 15 November 1991). 

According to the decree, TENK shall

The Responsible Research series (ISSN 2670-062X) is published by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) and the Committee for Public Information (TJNK). The publisher is established in Helsinki. The series will be published as open access web publications. It may also be published in print.

Here you will find publications of the Committee for Public Information including the memoranda, reports and other material created in conjunction with or relation to the Committee’s operations.

Publications of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK (ISSN 2490-161X (print), ISSN 2669-9427 (pdf)) publishes TENK's guidelines, recommendations and other material. The publication series was established in 2019. Print versions of the publications can be ordered from TENK's secretary. 

TENK's publications are approved by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK. The author of these publications is the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK. 

The aim of the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication is to encourage sharing research results beyond academia, support the national publication channels that enable multilingual publication, and promote multilingualism in the assessment and funding processes of research.

Responsible research – what is it?

Responsible research promotes reliable and collectively accepted practices of producing, publishing, and assessing research results. It supports the transparency, presence, and utilization of science in society.