Research and Third Mission: training meeting for the drafting of the Faculty DA-RT

All Venues, Online Workshop on the Teams platform

As part of the FormAQ initiatives, with reference to Research and Third Mission activities, an in-depth and information seminar was held on Thursday 27 May in the afternoon with the aim of presenting the new version of the Annual Programmatic Document of the Faculty for Research and Third Mission (DA-RT 2021). The meeting, which took place on the Teams platform, was attended by an almost complete representation of the Deans and contact persons for research and third mission of all the faculties of the University. The meeting was opened by the president of the Presidium, Prof. Giovanni Marseguerra, while Prof. Massimo Marassi, a member of the PQA with responsibility for coordinating the QA Group for research activities, illustrated the main reasons that suggested the revision of the model and the related operating methods;  in particular, Prof. Marassi explained the objective of a progressive but concrete simplification of the procedures for preparing DA-RTs, recalling both the results of the monitoring carried out by the FPA on the previous DA-RTs and some recommendations presented by the Evaluation Unit as part of its annual report.

Paolo Valentini, head of the o.u. Quality of research, then presented the Guidelines approved by the Presidium, illustrating in detail the aspects of continuity and the new elements present in the DA-RT 2021;   It also deepened, with reference to research and the so-called "information package" that is provided to each Faculty, the data that have been made available to facilitate annual monitoring (publications, participation in calls, internal resources, investments in research).  The information moment was completed by the speech of the Director of the Research and Development Area, Dr. Mario Gatti: starting from the preliminary drafting of the SUA TM/IS and the related faculty files, he has punctually explained the contents that are available to the faculties to compile the monitoring section of the DA-RT dedicated to the Third Mission and has proposed the most appropriate ways of using them in the context of procedures currently in place at the centralized level of the University.