For the most part, especially in Portugal, the Ensino Lusófona institutions have ethics committees. Those who do not have these committees, have other bodies, such as an “Ombudsman” system, to ensure compliance with an ethics code and sanction issues of social misconduct and irregular behaviour.
The President of the Ethics Committee of Lusófona University, Ana Benavente, has stated… “Ethics comes from the Greek "ethos" which means the set of values that guide people’s behaviour in society. It is crucial for social wellbeing in all domains: personal, family, social and professional.
In education and particularly in the academic community, Ethics is transversal to the training, research and leisure activities, covering all academic spaces, both formal and informal, and all the relationships, from faculty and students, to academic services and peer relations…”
Ethics Code of Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
