Thus spoke Aristotle … and so did we when launching the online course on Good Research Practice in summer 2025 that is based on numerous courses, workshops and seminars given by us and our colleagues to young scientists live and online since 2017.

In Germany and other countries, and requested by learned societies, graduate schools or research collaboration consortia, these courses trigger genuine interest from young scientists who, unlike many of the more senior peers, do take good research practice as something essential that should not be postponed until other more important (?) tasks are completed.

We are happy to have received very positive ratings from students who shared their feedback with us (N=34).

When asked whether participation in our Good Research Practice course would affect their own future research practices, 33 out of 34 answered with ‘very likely’ (N=17) and ‘likely’ (N=16).

Such feedback does make us hopeful that our course will help scientists to generate research output that, even if not sweet, will be robust and reliable.

Please see here for the course syllabus and further details.