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O relatório será redigido em inglês e pretende dar resposta a quatro questões fundamentais:

O que pretende a Universidade fazer?
(missão, objectivos, normas e valores)

Como pretende a Universidade fazê-lo?
(organização, actividades de ensino, investigação e serviços)

Como sabe a Universidade que isso está a resultar?
(monitorização, práticas de qualidade, cultura de qualidade)

Como muda a Universidade no sentido da sua melhoria?
(gestão estratégica, capacidade para a mudança, garantia da qualidade)

O relatório será redigido em inglês e terá a seguinte estrutura:

Introduction
Institutional context
I. Norms and values
II. Organisation and activities
III. Quality practices
IV. Strategic management and capacity for change
Appendices
Annexes

Introduction
Brief analysis of the self-evaluation process
Self-evaluation team members
Collaboration with other structures and individual elements
Report discussion across the Institution
Positive aspects and difficulties

Institutional context
Brief historical overview
Geographic position
Regional and National labour-market situation
Number of Faculties and Research Units/Laboratories
Number of academic, administrative staff and students
Autonomy
Human and financial resources
Capacity to set its own profile for teaching, research and   innovation
Capacity to set its own governing structure

I. Norms and values
1.1. Governance and management
Target degree of centralisation and decentralisation
Human resources and gender policies
1.2. Academic Profile
Target balance among teaching, research and other services
Academic priorities: emphasised teaching programmes and areas of research
Policy or preferences regarding certain academic approaches
1.3. Academically-related activities: goals for relationship to society and involvement in public debate
1.4. Funding: intended relationship to funding agencies
1.5. Target balance in terms of local, regional, national, and international positioning
1.6. Other institutional goals
1.7. Integration of the three functions – teaching, research and service to society – and promotion of synergy between these areas in the University’s mission

II. Organisation and activities
2.1. Governance and management
2.1.1 Analysis of management practice
Selection and promotion of academic and administrative staff
Selection of students
Funding issues
Academic activities (teaching and learning, research)
Development of entrepreneurial activities
Research policies
2.1.2 Students and external stakeholders’ involvement in institutional governance
2.1.3 Adequacy of human resources, human resource policy and practice to current and future needs
2.1.4 Gender policy implementation
2.1.5 Involvement in inter-institutional cooperation at regional, national and international level
2.1.6 Adequacy of management policies to the mission and goals
2.2. Academic profile
2.2.1 Analysis of research and educational approaches
2.2.2 Analysis of educational programme design and organisation of research activities
2.2.3 Adequacy of study programmes and research activities to the mission and goals
Study programmes
Research activities
2.2.4 Promotion of synergy between teaching, research and service to society
2.2.5 Language policy and activities to attract international students.
2.3. Academically-related activities
2.3.1 Research and technology transfer, continuing education, regional and community service and ways of promoting synergy (e.g., structure, people, processes) between these activities
Research and technology transfer
Continuing education
Regional and community service
2.3.2 Student support services
2.3.3 Adequacy of academically-related activities to the mission and goals
2.3.4 Ways and extent of ensuring cooperation between students and academic staff
2.4. Funding
Total budget and percentage allotted by the state or other public authorities, by student fees, and by private sources
Percentage of earmarked state budget allocation
Centrally controlled budget
Distribution criteria and amounts allotted to Faculties and Departments
Allocation procedures within the University
Budget percentage available to implement new initiatives
Full costs of research and teaching activities
Perceived strengths and weaknesses of funding

III. Quality practices
3.1. Internal quality responsibility shared across the University
3.2. Internal quality processes. Explicit quality standards. Quality culture
3.3. Adequacy of resources available to support internal quality processes
3.4. Available internal quality processes
Teaching activities
Research activities
Student performance
Administrative processes
Entrepreneurial activities
External relations
Monitoring of the extent to which teaching, research and service to society are integrated
3.5 Activity evaluation frequency. Extent of data collection.
3.6 Use of internal quality process outcomes in decision-making and strategic planning
Teaching quality
Research quality
Administrative quality

IV. Strategic management and capacity for change
4.1. Responsiveness to the demands, threats and opportunities present in the external environment
4.2. Involvement of representatives of the external community in the University’s strategic management
4.3. Advantages of the University’s autonomy
4.4. Expected changes towards the University’s aims
4.5. Improving the match between the current and future missions and goals and the activities
Study programmes
Research activities
Service to society
4.6. Role of quality monitoring and quality management in the development of change

Appendices
I - Organisational chart of the University’s Faculties and Departments
II – Organisational chart of the central administration and support services (Rector office staff, campus maintenance, libraries, …)
III – Organisational chart of the management structure (Rector, Council/Senate, Faculty, Deans and Councils, major committees, …)
IV - Student members for the whole University and Faculty over the last three to five years. Student/staff ratio (lowest, highest and mean ratios). Time-to-graduation. Drop-out rates. Gender distribution by Faculty. Demographic trends in the wider target population.
V – Academic staff members (by academic rank and Faculty) for the whole University over the last three to five years (breakdown by level, discipline, gender and age).
VI – University’s funding
State funding (amount and percentage of total budget)
Other funding sources (type and percentage of total budget)
Research funding (percentage within total budget)
Amount of institutional funding for teaching and research by Faculty
VII – Infrastructure in relation to the number of students and staff
Amount and size of buildings, facilities, laboratories and libraries
Location (concentrated or dispersed)
Age and condition of the facilities

Annexes