Quality Assurance

Our commitment to continuous improvement in teaching, research and the third mission.

What quality means to us

Always raising quality in term of education, research, knowledge enhancement and organisational processes is the approach by which we define our goals and activities.

The University of Bologna participates actively in national initiatives for the assessment of teaching, research and the third mission, contributing to the development of the national Quality Assurance (QA) system. 

Quality assurance goes beyond mere compliance with pre-established standards; it is an active process, engaging the entire university community in a path of continuous improvement. Everyone in our community contributes his or her experience and commitment.

Through a structured, participatory system, we are able to document and measure progress in all University areas, ensuring that our processes are always aligned with our mission and strategy.

Working in a quality-driven environment

We jointly define our goals, the actions needed to achieve them, and how to monitor and assess the results achieved, identifying measures to continue to improve. This is continuous, cyclical process broken down into the following stages:

  • planning processes, defining goals and related activities,
  • managing processes and implementing predefined activities according to identified goals,
  • assessing the efficiency, effectiveness and relevance of the processes and actions implemented,
  • defining and implementing corrective actions useful for re-planning.

University Quality Assurance System

We have developed a quality assurance system, in which the Quality Commitee and the Evaluation Board play a significant role, consistent with the University Strategic Plan, defining processes at site, department, degree and PhD level. The guiding principles, goals and areas of activity are described in the University Quality Policies Document (in Italian) [.pdf 4993 KB].

For the University

For Departments

For Degree Programmes

For PhD programmes

Contacts

APPC - Settore Qualità e valutazione

Address

Via Zamboni 25 Bologna (BO)

Supporting Quality Assurance Processes

For teaching: appc.qualitadidattica@unibo.it

For PhD: appc.qualitadottorato@unibo.it

For departments: appc.qualitaricerca-tm@unibo.it