Ensures the dissemination of quality culture and good practices, effectiveness, efficiency and functionality of services, projects and processes for the development of the organization. Coordinates and accompanies the entire community in the generation and implementation of systems that facilitate the management, evaluation and analysis of the results of the university’s activities, all based on constant learning and continuous improvement.

It accompanies the centers and degrees in the implementation and maintenance of the Internal Quality Assurance System. It is part of the Vice-rectorate for Quality and Organizational Transformation, which favors the integration of the technological area and quality assessment. Its main functions are:

• To provide the appropriate means to offer the service that the degrees and departments need.
• To respond to the suggestions for improvement received.
• To review and update the system periodically.
• To disseminate the UFV Quality System so that it is easily understandable and can lead to improvements in the degrees.
• To facilitate decision-making through different instruments that allow diagnosing and designing actions aimed at continuous improvement

The aim of this committee is to share the status of the implementation of the IQAS with those responsible for each center, detect common areas of work, and establish a collaborative network to facilitate the management of processes. The result of this Committee is the detection of the annual quality objectives and assessment of the validity of the Quality Policy. The members of the UFV Quality Committee are:

• Vice-Rector for Academic Management, Quality and Entrepreneurship or person delegated by him/her, who chairs the committee.
• Vice-Deans of Academic Management and Quality of the centers.
• Director of the Department of Institutional Quality and Evaluation.

Those responsible for quality and those responsible for other vice-rectorships, departments or areas may also be summoned to form part of the Committee when the agenda so requires.

It supervises the processes of faculty selection and teaching planning; it prepares and supervises the accompaniment of faculty and plans for monitoring, development, training, improvement, recognition and promotion; it collaborates in the design of the processes of evaluation of the teaching activity of the faculty managed by the Vice-Rector’s Office for Quality and Organizational Transformation and supports the preparation and implementation of improvement plans and monitors them, in coordination with the Vice-Rector’s Office for Academic Management, Quality and Entrepreneurship

This is a teaching performance evaluation program that is promoted and managed by the Vice-Rector’s Office for Faculty and Academic Organization in coordination with the Vice-Rector’s Office for Quality and Organizational Transformation. Its main functions are:

• Promote the improvement of university quality, convening annually the faculty to an evaluation of the performance of their activities in order to enhance pedagogical reflection in the teaching staff and enhance the integration of their performance in the mission of the university.
• Coordinate the systematic and permanent process of collection, analysis, interpretation and assessment of relevant information about the teaching work.
• Implement training and professional development programs that meet the real needs of the teaching staff.
• Encourage the improvement of the teaching activity of the teaching staff through the recognition of the quality of the work developed.
• Complete the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) in the aspects related to the quality of teaching with a global perspective of the activity of the professor.
• Carry out the monitoring and improvements necessary for the proper functioning of the Program

To guarantee, together with the Dean of the center, the organization of the teaching activity, the proper functioning of the administrative services and budgetary control, the availability of the necessary resources and the implementation of the internal quality assurance system and the continuous improvement of quality at the center level.

The aim of this committee is to identify the center’s quality objectives, prioritize and define transversal actions in relation to these objectives. To identify these quality objectives, the committee must analyze its risks and opportunities and the main indicators, and share the status of the center’s degrees, in terms of compliance with the commitments of the quality aims and improvement plans.
Each center establishes the composition of this committee for better alignment with its management and decision-making bodies.