12/01/2022

Applications for assessment of research sexennials 2021 resolved

The Research Assessment Committee has approved 434 research periods corresponding to the call for civil servant teaching staff and 195 research periods corresponding to the calls for private universities and affiliated centres.

The specific committees of the AQU Catalunya Research Assessment Committee have resolved the requests for research activity assessment of the teaching and research staff of public universities (civil servant PDI) and of the private universities and affiliated centres submitted to the 2021 call for applications.

The first table shows the results of sexennial assessment of civil servant PDI, broken down by area of knowledge:

Table 1. Results of the 1st call for assessment of the research activity of civil servant teaching staff (2021)

Committee	Periods presented	Periods approved
Humanities	79	75
Social Sciences	112	103
Experimental Sciences	71	68
Life Sciences	37	37
Medical and Health Sciences	59	56
Engineering and Architecture	102	95
Total	460	434

The second table shows the results of the assessment of PDI of the private universities and affiliated centres that have signed assessment agreements with AQU Catalunya:

Table 2. Results of the assessment of the research activity of institutions with agreements (2021):

Committee	Periods presented	Periods approved
Private universities	199	169
Affiliated centres	42	26