ShareThe AQU Catalunya Governing Board approves the draft action plan and budget for 2025
The meeting also monitored how the credentials of excellence for departments, institutes and affiliated centres with research activity are being deployed, and the state of adaptation of the teaching evaluation criteria to the provisions of the LOSU.
The AQU Catalunya Governing Board has approved the plan for external visits to centre that offer official university degrees for 2025, the draft action plan for 2025 and the draft budget for 2025, which includes the creation of the new Commission for the Issuance of Credentials of Excellence to departments, affiliated centres and institutes with research activity, as a result of the deployment of Act 9/2022, of 21 December, on science.
During the 18 July meeting, the president of AQU Catalunya, Francesc Xavier Grau Vidal, reported on the context for starting to deploy the structure for issuing the credentials of excellence and on the effects of Act 1/2024, of 7 June, which regulates higher artistic education and establishes the organisation and equivalences of professional artistic education. The Director of AQU Catalunya, Jaume Valls Pasola, reported on the progress made in defining the new Framework for the validation, monitoring, modification and accreditation of official university degrees, the actions in relation to the use of the Catalan language in the assessment processes, the approval of the benchmarks in Biosciences and in Philology and Language Studies by the Institutional and Programme Review Commission, and presented the conferences and workshops that have been organised and those planned. Finally, the President of the Research Assessment Commission, Maria Pau Ginebra Molins, explained how the commission she chairs has made progress in adapting the accreditations for permanent teaching staff to the requirements of the Organic Act on the Higher Education System.
Lastly, the body approved the renewal of Fernando López Ramon, PhD, and José Pla Barber, PhD, as members of the Appeals Commission for a second non-extendable mandate. The AQU Catalunya Governing Board is the superior governing body of the Agency and it is responsible, among others, for the functions of approving the Agency’s program of activities, establishing its policies and strategic objectives and approve the balance sheet, income statement and financial report.