The future European Centre of Excellence in Professional Ethics

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The future European Centre of Excellence in
Professional Ethics first results of a survey
among CEPLIS member organisations

• Profs. Benoît Rihoux (UCLouvain) Bojana Lobe
  (Univ. of Ljubljana)
• Venice, 5 June 2015

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The future CoE in a nutshell

• EU H2020 Widespread-Teaming call
• Joint venture CEPLIS-MFPA-Maltese
  Govt-UMalta-UCLouvain
• Missions
• cutting-edge comparative research on PE issues
• up-to-date and certified training on PE issues
• awareness raising, advisory and knowledge
  transfer role

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Survey

• Online
• Launched May 5th
• 21 valid responses ( 70 entered not completed)
• 8 organisations not identified 4 from Malta

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Survey some first results

• Does your profession have a code of ethics and/or
  ethical conduct applying across the EU? 11 Yes,
  3 No, 6 not aware
• Does your profession have a legally binding code
  of ethics and /or ethical conduct at the national
  level? 16 Yes, 4 No
• Does your profession have a code of ethics and
  /or ethical conduct at the organizational level?
  14 Yes, 4 No
• Is your code of ethics more principle-based
  (normative) or more rule-based (practical)? 10
  mixed, 7 more principle-based, 1 rule-based, 1
  principle-based

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Survey some first results

• Members informed about CEPLIS common values
  doc? 8 Yes, 7 not aware, 3 No
• Org. Documents modified on the basis of CEPLIS
  common values doc? 10 not aware, 6 No, 1
  Yes
• Priority common values for further applied
  research? confidentiality CPD professional
  indemnity insurance
• Some compulsory or optional PE courses in your
  country? 7 compulsory, 5 optional NB very
  different formats, contents, instructor profiles,
  level!

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Survey some first results

• PE included in CPD programs? 9 somewhat, 2 very
  much
• Level of awareness on PE among your
  practitioners? 1 excellent, 4 very good, 4
  good, 3 sufficient, 1 poor NB 8 non-responses
• Emerging PE issues? yes, very diverse e.g.
  technology(IT-online)-linked data,
  confidentiality, social media, privacy, ,
  cross-cultural issues, gender issues,
• Improvement of ethical practices ?higher quality
  of the services? 12 agree, 7 no answer

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Survey some first results

• Improvement of ethical practices ? better
  competitiveness of services? 12 agree, 7 no
  answer
• Personnel employed by professionals aware,
  trained, adhering to PE? ca. 8-10 Yes

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Preliminary conclusions

• Significant gaps/heterogeneity in PE training
• Strong differentials across professions/countries
  in terms of PE training awareness
• PE not yet fully mainstreamed in training
• Some important emerging issues (esp. IT-related)