Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a set of ethical principles and legally defined rules that should guide participants in the educational process during learning, teaching, and scientific (creative) activities to ensure trust in learning outcomes and/or scientific (creative) achievements.

The following are considered violations of academic integrity:

• academic plagiarism — the publication (partial or complete) of scientific (creative) results obtained by others as one's own research (creativity) results and/or the reproduction of published texts (works of art) by other authors without attribution;
• self-plagiarism — the publication (partial or complete) of one's own previously published scientific results as new scientific results;
• fabrication — the invention of data or facts used in the educational process or scientific research;
• falsification — the deliberate change or modification of existing data related to the educational process or scientific research;
• cheating — performing written assignments using external sources of information other than those permitted, particularly during assessment;
• deception — providing deliberately false information regarding one's own educational (scientific, creative) activities or the organization of the educational process; forms of deception include academic plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and cheating;
• bribery — the provision (receipt) by a participant in the educational process, or an offer to provide (receive), funds, property, services, benefits, or any other material or non-material assets for the purpose of obtaining an undue advantage in the educational process;
• biased assessment — the deliberate overestimation or underestimation of students' learning outcomes.

Scientific, pedagogical, and research staff of the higher education institution are obliged to adhere to academic integrity in the educational process and scientific (creative) activities and to ensure its observance by students.

On their part, persons studying at higher education institutions are obliged to fulfill the requirements of the educational (scientific) program (individual curriculum, if applicable) while maintaining academic integrity and achieving the learning outcomes defined for the corresponding level of higher education.