Ethics and
legal notice

In line with the European General Data Protection Regulations, please find here our GDPR statement, which defines clearly how D-challengHE uses and protects any information provided while using this website or when participating in D-challengHE activities. 

D-challengHE is committed to ensuring that personal data remains private and protected and that it provides transparency concerning how it processes any personal information. All requested information will only be used for the purposes explicitly stated.

Personal data protection:

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The information requested when subscribing to newsletters is necessary to send such documents. This information is intended only for the D-challengHE Network, which can exercise the rights of access and rectification. Addresses of any kind (postal or electronic mail) may not be sold under any circumstances to third parties or disclosed for unauthorised purposes.

Copyright:

The entire website is covered by international legislation on copyright and intellectual property. All reproduction rights are reserved, including downloadable documents, illustrations and photographs. Reproduction of all or part of this site on any electronic medium whatsoever is strictly prohibited unless with the express permission of the publication director.

The reproduction of texts from this site on paper is only possible for personal use or for educational title under certain conditions:

• free distribution;
• respect for the integrity of the documents reproduced: no modifications or alterations of any kind;
• clear and visible citation of the information source as follows, for example: “This document comes from the website of the D-challengHE project”.  The Internet address must appear in the reference (https://d-challenghe.unilink.it/). 

The reproduction of texts, tables, graphics and images from this site on a support paper or electronically is prohibited:

• for commercial or distribution purposes;
• for the repeated or systematic extraction of material protected, or not, of the website https://d-challenghe.unilink.it which may cause it any prejudice;
• for the use of the links mechanism; especially during the presentation of a D-challengHE website page in frames not belonging to this website, using the techniques of “Framing” or of the “inline linking” (use of an element in an external site).

User communications:

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Links to other websites

Links to other websites present on this website are provided exclusively to give you the most complete information possible. If you use these links, you will leave the D-challengHE website. While the D-challengHE consortium has checked the page pointed to by the active link, it neither controls nor is responsible for these sites or their contents. For this reason, the D-challengHE consortium declines any responsibility for these sites or information contained herein, the software or other material contained therein or for the consequences of their use. If you decide to access external sites linked to our site, you do so at your own risk.

Erasmus+ guidelines for third parties

Beneficiaries of European Union (EU) funding are obliged to display the EU flag and to acknowledge the support received under the relevant EU programmes in all communications and promotional material. The logo of the European Commission may be used by third parties only if:

• permission is requested and granted before the logo is used;
• there is no likelihood of the user of the logo being confused with the European Commission;
• it is not used in connection with objectives or activities which are incompatible with the aims and principles of the European Commission;
• it is not used to imply or suggest unintended endorsement or promotion of the objectives and activities of the user of the logo by the European Commission.

Check all guidelines here and European Commission visual identity information here. 

Disclaimer:

It is the responsibility of the user of this site to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by viruses circulating on the Internet. The D-challengHE consortium cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of its website or other sites linked to it, in particular, access to its site being prevented due to Internet-related malfunctions or interruption of the site host or host part of the site or service, due to maintenance or updating.

The D-challengHE website is hosted in Italy and governed by Italian law.

Website modification:

The editorial team reserves the right to modify or correct the content of this site, including this legal notice, at any time and without notice.

Ethics Code

For all parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor(s), the peer reviewer and the publisher), it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour. The ethics statements for the Regional formation and development studies are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices and research integrity principles listed in the Code of Ethical Conduct.

GDPR legal statement and information under Italian Law

Duties of Research Group HUB coordinator

The coordinator of D-challengHE HUB Research Group takes on the role of facilitator with the task of:

• encouraging the registration of researchers, teachers and students in this research group
• organising at list one online workshop during the year, to gather those who have registered, for sharing the progress of their research/studies on this topic
• animating the discussion and collaboration within the group (for conference, publication, research etc.)
• developing a very brief collaborative report outlining the main points of the discussion 
• organising a collaborative bibliographical review of the most important research/contributions about the RN topic over the last five years 

promoting the dissemination of scientific publications for the D-ChallengHE Observatory