Academic virtue is a set of ethical principles and rules defined by law that should be guided by participants in the educational process in teaching and conducting scientific (creative) activities in order to ensure confidence in learning outcomes and / or scientific (creative) achievements.

The observance of academic virtue by pedagogical, scientific-pedagogical and scientific workers stipulates:

• references to sources of information when using ideas, statements, information;
• Compliance with copyright law;
• providing reliable information on the results of research and their own pedagogical (scientific-pedagogical, creative) activity;
• control over the adherence of academic integrity to the recipients of education.

Adherence to academic integrity by educational recipients provides for:

• independent fulfillment of educational tasks, tasks of current and final control of learning outcomes (for persons with special educational needs this requirement is applied taking into account their individual needs and opportunities);
• references to sources of information when using ideas, statements, information;
• Compliance with copyright law;
• providing reliable information about the results of their own educational (scientific, creative) activity.

Academic virtue is meant to contend with

– plagiarism as an act of fraud in student papers, dissertations, scientific articles and monographs;

– fabrication and falsification of the results of scientific research;

– cheating, writing off, bribery.