In November 2025, the University of Trento welcomed the visit by ANVUR's Evaluation Expert Committee (CEV) for the periodic accreditation procedure.
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.
The CEV is composed of professors and students enrolled in the ANVUR register of evaluators.
ANVUR Guidelines for the Quality Assurance System in Universities (in Italian)
The assessment examined 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.
The assessment exercise consisted of several phases:
Remote documentation analysis
The assessment began with the remote analysis of the documents provided by 8 September 2025 by UniTrento.
Remote visit
On 3–4 November 2025, remote meetings were held, during which the CEV interviewed the key contacts for each selected degree programme and doctoral programme.
On-site visit
From 17 to 19 November 2025, the on-site visit took place, dedicated to verifying the University’s overall quality requirements, those of the two Departments, as well as the facilities and infrastructure of the degree programmes, doctoral programmes and Departments involved in the periodic accreditation.
The visit concluded with a feedback meeting on 19 November 2025, held in the presence of the Rector, the Director General, the Vice-Rectors and representatives of the academic community, during which the CEV presented the main findings that emerged during the visit.
The outcome
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.
On 25 June 2026, the University of Trento received ANVUR's final Periodic Accreditation Report, with an overall judgement of satisfactory.
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.
