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.
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 promotes reliable and collectively accepted practices of producing, publishing, and assessing research results. It supports the transparency, presence, and utilization of science in society.
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 (plain-text version)
These guidelines are applied from 10 October, 2019. A research organisation may commit itself to following these guidelines by signing the commitment form that is available on the TENK web page, www.tenk.fi.
Publications of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity 3/2019
2nd, revised edition.
