Self-Assessment and Accreditation

Self-assessment and internal evaluation are, according to Legislative Decree 19/2012, institutional activities and must follow methodologies, criteria and indicators developed by individual universities in harmony with those defined by ANVUR.

For each of the Points of Attention of the Periodic Accreditation Model, the Universities, Courses of Study, Courses of Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), PhD programmes and Departments/Faculties visited are asked to express a self-assessment judgment accompanied by the documentary sources that can support it.

The Self-Assessment is thus a unique opportunity to condense all of the University's "organizational knowledge" into a single document, which can be profitably used both internally and externally and can be used as a reference for the daily work of managers at all levels, as a communication tool to and from teaching staff and administrative staff for the description of QA processes, and as a vehicle for promotion and communication to other stakeholders.

The drafting of the Self-Assessment represents a moment of organizational reflection, since it allows for the identification of both good practices to be disseminated within the University and the main areas of improvement with respect to which improvement actions can be defined and initiated.

The evaluation process in the area of Periodic Accreditation consists of the following main steps:

• documental analysis;
• institutional visit (at a distance of the Study Courses and PhD Programmes and in presence the Hub and Departments);
• redaction of the CEV Report;
• response to any Counterclaims submitted by the University;
• collaboration in the drafting of the ANVUR Report.

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The Periodic Accreditation of the Hubs has a maximum duration of five years and is granted by the MUR, upon the proposal of ANVUR, following the verification of the permanence of the requirements for Initial Accreditation and the fulfillment of the Quality requirements in Annex C of the Ministerial Decree 1154/2021, based on the outcome of institutional visits carried out by Commissions of Evaluation Experts (CEV).

The Periodic Accreditation of the Hub entails the Accreditation of all its Courses of Study and any decentralized hubs, with the exception of those evaluated negatively, which are suppressed.

An ANVUR prepares a plan of institutional visits for Periodic Accreditation: in the selection of the Universities to be evaluated, the expiration of their Periodic Accreditation is taken into account, as well as any elements that might advise against the visit, such as a recent change in the Governance System or profound reorganizations of the System underway.

The visits will have as their object of evaluation the University as a whole and a selection of some of its Courses of Study, PhD Programmes and Departments. The overall assessment will take into account both the evaluation of the hub aspects and those of the selected Study Courses, PhD Programmes and Departments

PHASES OF THE PROCESS

The Periodic Accreditation process consists of the following main phases:

• self-evaluation by the University and its Structures (please refer to the Guidelines for self-evaluation and evaluation of the quality assurance system in universities);
• documental analysis by the CEV;
• institutional visit (at a distance of the Courses of Study and PhD programmes and in presence at the University's Hubs and Departments of Medicine and Surgery);
• Report of the CEV;
• (if any) Counter-deductions of the University;
• AnVUR Report.

The ANVUR Report, accompanied with the proposal and judgment of Accreditation, is transmitted by ANVUR to the MUR and the University. Accreditation is granted by Ministerial Decree. ANVUR, after 10 days from the deadline within which the Ministry and the University can request a review of the evaluation, publishes the Final Report of the CEV and the AP Report on its institutional website