Quality Assurance
In Italy the quality assurance system in higher education has been introduced with law 240/2010, which delegated the Government to regulate the quality assurance system in compliance with the main European directives.
With D.Lgs. 19/2012, the Government regulated the procedures for the accreditation and evaluation of university courses and settings through the introduction of the initial and recurrent evaluation of university settings and courses; the introduction of an evaluation system and a system for assuring quality, efficiency and effectiveness of didactic and research; empowerment of the system of self-evaluation of the quality and efficiency of teaching and research activities. The quality assurance system has an advisory orientation and aims at improving the quality of higher education.
The Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca - Anvur) is the national agency for quality assurance as foreseen by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), in compliance with the evaluation practices at international level and according to principles of autonomy, equity, transparency, publicity of documents.
Starting from 2025, also the PhD programs will be subjected to the this processes and also our program will be involved in the self-evaluation, recurrent evaluation and accreditation of the university system (Autovalutazione, valutazione e accreditamento - AVA) is based on the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) that are drawn up by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).
The Quality assurance system of Anvur has an advisory orientation and aims at the improvement of the quality of universities and research institutes and it is based on the following elements:
- a system of initial and recurrent accreditation of courses and settings by Anvur;
- a system of quality assurance (AQ) of the teaching and research activities of universities, under the responsibilities of quality protection teams;
- the internal evaluation by joint committees and by the evaluation teams of universities;
- the external evaluation by Anvur.
The internal Quality assurance system is the requirement for the accreditation of courses and settings. The accreditation is an external evaluation procedure carried out by Anvur and is divided into an initial and a recurrent accreditation.
For this purpose we have appointed in January 2025 for our program two important bodies a Review Group and an Advisory Board.
We'll update this page with relevant documents as soon as they'll be available.
Last update
24.02.2025