Academic integrity is a set of legally defined ethical principles and rules that educational process participants should be guided by in learning, teaching and in scientific or creative activites in order to ensure confidence in learning outcomes and scientific achievements.
Compliance with ethical and professional principles, standards and practices by individuals or institutions in education, research and scholarship.
Сommitment to six fundamental values even in the face of adversity: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage.
Acting with the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility in learning, teaching and research. It is important for students, teachers, researchers and professional staff to act in an honest way, be responsible for their actions, and show fairness in every part of their work.

On 4 October 2022, Artem ARTIUKHOV (associate professor of the Marketing Department, leader of the Academic Integrity University Group) represented the project “With Academic Integrity to EU Values: Step by Step to Common Europe” to Ukrainian educators and researchers during the Academic Integrity Forum. It was organized due to the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and the Unicheck company.

Within his report “The Academic Integrity Assurance System at Universities and Its Independent Assessment: Approaching to World Standards”, Artem ARTIUKHOV described academic integrity requirements for integration into EU education and research branches. As an example of academic integrity performance, Sumy State University was discussed.

Over 850 people attended the forum.

It is one of academic integrity events on national and international levels. The forum was held according to the ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH-101048055 project “AICE – With Academic Integrity to EU Values: Step by Step to Common Europe”. That is co-funded by the EU Executive Agency for Education, Audial-Visual Means and Culture (the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet program).

The AICE project is dedicated to use of the best EU experience in academic integrity progress and to define roles of all university members in its implementation.