ShareAQU Catalunya closes the first call for accreditation of associate professors and full professors under the evaluation criteria approved in January 2025
The Research Evaluation Commission applied these new criteria, which are more plural and more focused on the qualitative assessment of merits, to the 196 applications received.
AQU Catalunya has now closed the first accreditation period for associate professors and full professors in which the evaluation criteria approved on 20 January 2025 were applied, and which entered into force in April of the same year. During this nine-month period, the Research Evaluation Commission (CAR) received a total of 196 accreditation applications, of which 154 correspond to associate professors and the remainder to full professors. To date, 69 applications from associate professors and 18 from full professors have been evaluated.
Of the 69 associate professor applications evaluated, the majority come from the field of social sciences (28), followed by medical and health sciences (12). Of the total 154 applications for associate professor evaluation, 32 were closed without evaluation and 53 are pending evaluation. Of the 69 that were evaluated, 48 received a favourable assessment and 21 an unfavourable one. Of these 21 unfavourable decisions, 10 are pending appeal.
Accreditation of associate professors
| Comission | T | TSA | P | F | D | RP | TF | TD | % F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities | 15 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 53,8 % |
| Social Sciences | 66 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 29,4 % |
| Sciences | 13 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 30,0 % |
| Life Sciences | 11 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 60,0 % |
| Health and Medical Sciences | 29 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 55,0 % |
| Engineering and Architecture | 20 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 33,3 % |
| Total | 154 | 32 | 53 | 48 | 11 | 10 | 48 | 21 | 39,3 % |
T: Applications received; TSA: Applications closed without evaluation; P: Pending evaluation; F: Favourable; D: Unfavourable; RP: Appeals pending; TF: Total favourable; TD: Total unfavourable.
As regards full professors, a total of 42 applications for evaluation were received. Of these applications, 18 have been evaluated, 9 were closed without evaluation and 15 are pending evaluation. Of those already evaluated, which come in the same proportion from all fields, 5 received a favourable assessment and 13 an unfavourable one. Of these 13 unfavourable decisions, 9 are pending appeal.
Accreditation of full professors
| Comission | T | TSA | P | F | D | RP | TF | TD | % F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20,0 % |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7,1% |
| Sciences | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33,3 % |
| Life Sciences | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0,0 % |
| Health and Medical Sciences | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0,0 % |
| Engineering and Architecture | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 33,3 % |
| Total | 42 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 15,2 % |
T: Applications received; TSA: Applications closed without evaluation; P: Pending evaluation; F: Favourable; D: Unfavourable; RP: Appeals pending; TF: Total favourable; TD: Total unfavourable.
The implementation of the new criteria by the CAR was due to the approval of the Organic Law on the University System (LOSU) in 2023. These new evaluation criteria are more plural and are contextualised to each field of knowledge. In addition, they introduce elements of qualitative assessment of teaching and research merits and, where applicable, knowledge transfer.