Centru de Cercetări în Etică Aplicată
CCEA


International Conference in Applied Ethics and Integrity in Doctoral Conduct and Research -----------------------------------------

Invited Speakers

 

- Sana Loue

 

Dr. Loue is a Professor in the Department of Bioethics and serves as the Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity in the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She has secondary appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Psychiatry, and Global Health and at MSASS, the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Dr. Loue holds graduate degrees in law (J.D.), epidemiology (Ph.D.), medical anthropology (Ph.D.), social work (M.S.S.A.), and Masters Degrees in education and theology. She is also ordained as an interfaith minister. She has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and 58 book chapters, and has authored and/or edited 27 books.

 

- Sandu Frunză

 

Sandu Frunză is Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, doctor of philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of culture, values and history. He supervises Ph.D.s in the field of political science. His areas of interest are: religious fundamentalism, religion and politics, biopolitics, post-Holocaust philosophy, relational ethics, deontology, religious imagery in advertising, personal development and ethical counseling. His books and articles have been reviewed or quoted by authors and publications from Romania, Israel, Europe, Africa, Asia or America. He received the prestigious Award of the Romanian Academy (2005) and the of Bologna Professor distinction (2010).

 

Lecturers and trainers

 

- Tomáš Foltýnek

 

Tomáš Foltýnek is lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czechia. He represents Czechia in the Council of Europe’s Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency, and Integrity in Education. He also serves as a deputy head of the Working Committee on ethics in scientific and pedagogical work within the Council of higher education institutions in Czechia. He has been dealing with plagiarism since 2008. He was involved in and has led several projects on plagiarism and academic integrity. Since 2013 he has been organizing conferences on this topic. He is President of the Board of the European Network for Academic Integrity and a certified VIRT2UE research integrity trainer.

 

- Sonja Bjelobaba

 

Sonja Bjelobaba is project manager for “Research ethics courses” at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics as well as an associate professor in Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian at the Department of Modern Languages the Uppsala University. She is vice-president of European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) and coordinator of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership project Bridging Integrity in Higher Education, Business and Society. She defended her thesis at the University of Gothenburg where she, as an educational developer, taught research integrity and other courses for faculty relating to teaching and learning in higher education. Her research focus on academic integrity in the Balkans and in Sweden.

 

- Ansgar Schäfer

 

Ansgar Schäfer is an independent consultant and trainer for academic integrity especially plagiarism prevention. He also works as senior science manager for quality assurance and teaching development at University for Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany. Formerly he coordinated the plagiarism prevention project Refairenz (2014-2016) as well as European Network for Academic Integrity (2016-2019) at the University of Konstanz. He is experienced in research, teaching, consulting and training in higher education institutions. Current focus of work: quality assurance, didactics, organizational and process development, strategy.