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The president of AQU Catalunya has renewed the Advisory Commission with the appointment of Josep Joan Moreso Mateos, Josep Maria Garrell Guiu and Xavier Navarro Acebes. Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré has also been reappointed for a second term.
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The president of AQU Catalunya, Francesc Xavier Grau Vidal, informed the Agency’s Governing Board at its last meeting of three new appointments and the renewal of one member of AQU Catalunya’s Advisory Commission. The three new members are Dr Josep Joan Moreso Mateos, Dr Josep Maria Garrell Guiu and Dr Xavier Navarro Acebes, and the commission member reappointed for a second term is Dr Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré.
Moreso is a Full Professor in Philosophy of Law at Pompeu Fabra University and joins the commission as an academic of nationally recognised prestige for a first term, replacing Dr Lluís Jofre Roca. Garrell is a Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Ramon Llull University and the current president of the European Universities Association. He will join the commission as a member of nationally recognised prestige for a first term, replacing Dr Núria Sebastián Gallés. Navarro is a Full Professor in Physiology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and will join the commission at the proposal of the Executive Committee of the Catalan National Workers’ Commission for a renewable first term. Finally, Vaz de Carvalho holds a doctorate in Physics from King’s College London and is president of the Board of Trustees of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She sits on the committee as an academic member of international prestige, and this second term is non-renewable.
The Advisory Commission is the advisory body that assists the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency by advising on strategies, defining and improving procedures and drawing up proposals for action in order to guarantee the quality of the Agency’s activities in accordance with international benchmarks. In accordance with the terms established in the Agency’s statutes, this commission is made up of national and international academics with international experience and recognised prestige, students from Catalan universities and representatives from Catalonia’s major trade unions, who must be members of academia. All of them must have experience in quality assurance in higher education and research.