Aspects of the ethical code of the UPF

Let’s look a little like being raised. The ethical code, I said before that was a 24 page document, it’s extensive, said in his presentation the rector, “You can read all in one sitting like a symphony”, does this simile “so can you read separately as if it was pieces of jazz” and what exactly invited to a reading of the issues that concern you. What are the issues that most concern you? I don’t know; let’s see what issues it contains. After an introduction and some basic elements of the legal framework of the university, what it does is talk of a first block integrity: academic integrity, scientific. A second, academic freedom as I said before, it matches with one of the values that I have mentioned. Third professional responsibility, pedagogical competence: it means that if we come here to do class we have been competent in what we do, we can’t expect you to be competent in a range of issues if we are not from ours.

These are very important issues; equality, privacy and confidentiality, respect, personal and social behaviors risks. So, a little touched and absolutely transversely issue and quite varied. If we do zoom in on a page, for example where there is a talk about the intellectual theory and plagiarism, is the topic that I commented before, is the theme that I would like to be underlined as the main theme. What is a plagiarism? A copy of a question, a copy of an exam, a copy of three questions, to let another copy, Will it be you that copies? There are many situations, a job, it doesn't have to be a test, and where we do is basically plagiarism. The plagiarism is appropriating ideas, words or works, or any other element of who originally created it. It is a very abroad definition and in this sense we will move in this definition. Thus the concept of plagiarism is associated with what is the mastermind, is something that you have created and therefore, who take it is violating a basic principle of the authority, and this is a principle that drives the definition of plagiarism that we have here.

Another zoom with another aspect is the eighth, the final, it is about the behavior of personal and social risk. It will cost a few years applying the anti-smoking-legislation, that don’t allow smoking indoor spaces and allow the opened spaces for a smoke. In this regard and in other behaviors said we want to eradicate in college. The other day a colleague came here from the United States; He asked me to have lunch in the restaurant (in the university) and he was very surprising to see beer in the fridge and he said: “look there are beers” and I said “yes, if you want, take one, it is in the menu you don’t have to pay extra” and from here he explained me “ in my university it would be unthinkable to have a fridge with beers available for the students, paying, for lunch” Why? Because culturally, the alcohol consumption, is related to attitudes always sharply demarcated from the legal point of view and even those persecuted at some point. You know that in the USA, those who have been in the USA, until age 21 can’t drink alcohol. I mean, it’s a completely different culture, and he was surprised that there were people drinking beer. Anyway, here is a culture of self-control, if a student consumes a lot of beer, we will all tell you: “What are you doing?”

Well these are issues that are included in the ethical code, I would like to stay clear, I invite you to do a reading as I said, the pieces that you are more interested in: The intellectual property, integrity also, defines clear boundaries and the reading has to do is absolutely as I say at first to promote and ensure the peaceful coexistence between different groups.