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Integration of the recommendations for the safeguarding of good scientific practice

01.04.2016

The recommendations of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG), which were published in 1998 and supplemented in 2013, have been integrated in PTB’s quality management system since 2001 as a binding code of conduct for the entire domain of research and development at PTB.

In addition, this year, the DFG/Leopoldina Recommendations on Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility were discussed in interaction with PTB’s ethics committee under the aspect of the “dual use problem” when handling securityrelevant research (i.e., the danger that research findings might be misused for malicious purposes). Furthermore, within the quality management system, measures and structures were declared binding which are devised to minimize the risk of misuse of research results.