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Quality Assessment Commission

The Quality Assessment Commission (CAQ) participates in assessment at institutional level of teaching standards (degrees), of activities, services and management (functions which the old consortium carried out since 1996) and has new functions in the area of certification and the accreditation at institutional level of titles, centres and systems orientated towards the new European dimension of higher education.

This Commission is presided by Josep Anton Ferré Vidal, the director of AQU Catalunya. The other members of the Commission are as follows:

• Nekane Balluerka Lasa (Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea)
• Antoni Blanc Altemir (Universitat de Lleida)
• Xavier Correig Blanchar (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) 
• Violeta Demonte Barreto (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
• Elisabeth Fiorioli (ÖAR - Austrian Accreditation Council)
• Dominic Keown (University of Cambridge)
• Peter Kraus (University of Helsinki)
• Hélène Lamicq (Université Paris-Est Créteil) 
• Francisco M. López Palomeque (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Francisco Marques Truyol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
• Rosa Maria Martí Laborda (Universitat de Lleida)
• Juan José Perona Páez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
• Josep Grifoll Saurí, secretary (AQU Catalunya)

The Quality Assessment Commission works through six specific committees:

• Specific committee for Arts and Humanities
• Specific committee for Social Sciences and Law
• Specific committee for Sciences
• Specific Committee for Health Sciences
• Specific committee for Engineering and Architecture
• Specific committee for doctorate programmes
• Specific Committee for the Assessment of Individual Merits and Activities

 PDF CAQ internal procedure

 PDF CAQ agreement dated 24th January 2011 by which specific review panels are set up [ca]

 PDF CAQ agreement dated 24th January 2011 by which CEMAI is adapted to the new framework [ca] 

 PDF CAQ agreement dated 4th April 2012 by which specific review panel for doctorate programmes is set up [ca]

24.1.2013