UniTrento is preparing for the visit of ANVUR's Evaluation Expert Committee (CEV) for the periodic accreditation procedure, that will take place in the second half of November 2025.
The CEV is composed of professors and students enrolled in the ANVUR register of evaluators. The outcome of the assessment will lead to an accreditation judgment based on the AVA3 model. The previous accreditation visit to UniTrento took place in April 2018.
The periodic accreditation of the University and its departments, programmes of study, PhD courses, consists of verifying that the requirements that led to the initial accreditation are still in place, and that additional quality, effectiveness and efficiency requirements are met for the activities that are carried out, including through the use of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
What will be assessed
The assessment will examine the University as a whole, considering in particular these 5 areas:
- A - Strategy, planning and organisation;
- B - Resource management;
- C - Quality assurance;
- D - Quality of teaching and learning and student services;
- E - Quality of research and third mission/social impact.
6 programmes of study chosen by ANVUR:
- Business administration and law (class L-18);
- International studies (class L-36);
- Viticulture and oenology (Class L-25);
- Law (class LMG/01);
- Physics (class LM-17);
- Human computer interaction (class LM-55).
2 PhD programmes chosen by ANVUR:
- Physics;
- Sociology and social research.
2 departments chosen by ANVUR:
- Physics;
- Sociology and social research.
How the visit works
The assessment exercise is divided into several phases:
Remote documentation analysis
The assessment begins with the remote analysis of the documents provided by 8 September by UniTrento.
Remote visit
It will be held a few weeks before the on-site visit.
The visit will cover, through remote meetings, the selected programmes of study and doctoral courses. The CEV will divide into groups to interview the key figures of each course:
- for the programmes of study: the course coordinator, the QA Group, the Joint Teacher-Student Committee, administrative and technical staff, a representation of faculty members, professionals in the sector, former graduates and students attending classes;
- for doctoral courses: the course coordinator, the professors of the course committee, representatives of the world of work, doctoral students and administrative and technical staff.
On-site visit
The on-site visit will be held in the week from 17 to 21 November 2025 and will cover the University as a whole, the 2 selected departments, as well as the facilities and infrastructures of the study programmes, doctorates and departments involved in periodic accreditation.
In the first two days, the committee will assess the quality requirements of the University (with the involvement of the Rector, the Director General, the Academic Senate and the Governing Board, the Vice Rectors, delegates of the Rector, heads of directorates, members of the Quality Assurance Committee and of the Evaluation Group, representatives of the student community and of administrative and technical staff and support services). The CEV will then meet the directors of the departments being visited.
The visit will end with a meeting with the Rector and the academic bodies during which the CEV will present the elements that emerged during the visit.
The outcome
The assessment includes qualitative and quantitative elements.
At the end of the assessment, ANVUR will present a detailed report, based on the CEV report, highlighting the strengths and areas for improvement, any good practices and recommendations at the level of the University, departments, programmes of study and doctoral courses.
The ANVUR Report, accompanied by the proposal and the Accreditation judgment, is transmitted to the Ministry of University and Research and the university.
The periodic accreditation judgment, issued by Ministerial Decree, is graded as fully satisfactory, satisfactory, conditional and unsatisfactory. The first two evaluations have a duration of five years, with an intermediate assessment of the programmes of study at the end of the third year; the conditional judgment has a shorter validity, which is established at the time of the evaluation; the unsatisfactory judgment means that the university or course must be suppressed.
ANVUR - the National agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes, is an independent evaluation body operating under the supervision of the Ministry of University and Research.
Its main mission is the evaluation, accreditation and monitoring of the activities of Italian universities. Its aim is to promote quality and encourage the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, research, third mission and social impact and the administration of universities.
ANVUR is a member of Eqar - the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education, the official register of quality assurance agencies operating in the European Higher Education Area.
AVA3 - the Self-assessment, assessment and accreditation strategy - is the model that has been developed to ensure the quality of Italian universities as defined by ANVUR to strengthen the quality of the activities carried out in the fields of teaching and learning, research, the third mission and social impact and other institutional and administrative activities carried out by universities.
The AVA3 model is an evolution of the previous models (AVA1 and AVA2) and aims at encouraging simplification, consolidating the alignment with European ESG 2015 standards and contributing to continuous improvement. It has been developed to implement regulatory provisions and in particular Ministerial Decree 1154/2021.
