ShareAQU Catalunya's Appeals Commission meets for the seventh time in 2024
COAPEL held an online meeting today in which 43 appeals were resolved.
AQU Catalunya's Appeals Commission (COAPEL) met online today. The meeting, which is the seventh of 2024, has aimed to resolve a total of 43 appeals filed by university teaching staff. After approving the minutes of the previous meeting, the commission resolved 24 appeals from the second call for aggregate teaching staff in 2023. The COAPEL also resolved 12 appeals from the second call for applications for full university professors in 2023 and 7 appeals from the first call for applications for the assessment of research activity in 2024.
Chaired by Neus Vidal Martínez, professor at the University of Barcelona, the commission is the AQU Catalunya body responsible for adjudicating on appeals against the decisions of the Research Assessment Commission and the other assessment, certification and accreditation commissions. Its decisions exhaust administrative channels. This COAPEL meeting resumes the commission's activity after its last session, on 18 July 2024. The commission met on eight occasions throughout 2023 and resolvec a total of 223 appeals.