An annotated collection of guidelines, checklists and comparable documents is intended as a reference to help stakeholders in research and innovation to safeguard international cooperation.
Various guidelines and comparable documents have been published in recent years with the aim of improving the security and integrity of international research and innovation cooperation. These guidelines were produced by different authors, have different audiences and focus on different issues. Some of these guidelines give more general advice, while others are very specific.
To facilitate finding and classifying the appropriate recommendations, an analysis of recently published and publicly available documents was carried out in 2021 as part of the EU Knowledge Network on China (EU KNOC) and on behalf of the European Commission. The analysis presented an annotated collection of a total of 26 country-agnostic and country-specific guidelines, checklists and other relevant documents to ensure secure and successful international cooperation in science and technology. The original document can be found here.
Since publication, several institutions in different countries have published additional documents or updated existing ones. The DLR-PT China team is therefore continuing the collection to support stakeholders in creating their own guidelines for their cooperation with China.
This document adds 14 other recently published guiding documents to the existing annotated collection. The following guidelines can be found in the updated document:
Guidelines to counter foreign interference in the Australian university sector (Australia, 2021); Safeguarding Your Research (Canada, 2021), Guidelines for International Collaboration in Research and Innovation (Denmark, 2022), Tackling R&I Foreign Interference (EU, 2022), Recommendations for academic cooperation with China (Finland, 2022), Framework Knowledge Security; National Knowledge Security Guidelines; Contact Point for Knowledge Security (Netherlands, 2021-2022), Trusted Research Guidance (New Zealand, 2021), Integrity and Security in the global research ecosystem (OECD, 2022), Trusted Research Guidance for Academia; Model code of conduct: Protection of Academic Freedom and the Academic Community in the context of the Internationalisation of the UK HE Sector (UK, 2021-2022), Recommended Practices for Strengthening the Security and Integrity of America’s Science and Technology Research Enterprise; Guidance for Implementing national security presidential memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) on national security strategy for United States government-supported research and development (USA, 2021-2022).
