General Information

Election and promotion of faculty members is carried out by seven-member election committees, composed of full professors or research directors. In the case of election of associate or assistant professors, the election committee may also include associate professors or equivalent researchers.

The committee is created after candidacy submission dates have passed.

The members of the committee are selected from internal and external registries which are organized by the Deanship according to discipline, approved by the Senate and updated every two years. At least three members of the committee must belong to the external member registry, whereas at least one external member has to be selected from an equivalent foreign Higher Educational Institution. The rest of the members may either belong to the internal or the external member registry. External and internal members are substituted by an equal number of external and internal members. Regular and alternate members of the committee are appointed and published by decision of the dean.

The committee is obliged to require a written evaluation of every candidate from two foreign professors or researchers who belong to the external member registry (or from two domestic professors or researchers who belong to the external member registry, if that is not possible) and from two professors or researchers indicated by the candidate himself/herself, who necessarily belong to the Institution’s registries.

The committee selects the most appropriate candidate and a runner up. Appropriately substantiated proceedings are drawn up and forwarded to the Rector for examination of legality. The nomination takes place by act of the Rector within two months.

The procedure of election or promotion is completed within the time limits stated in the Institution’s Organization.

Organisation, inspection and publication of the procedures of election and promotion of institutional professors, as well as submission of candidacies, are necessarily carried out via the electronic system of complete management APELLA, through which every Institution compiles and maintains both internal and external member registries.

Election and promotion Professors of faculty members and establishment and renewal of Tenured Assistant is carried out by eleven-member or fifteen-member Electors, according to the number of Professors and Lecturers of each Department.The electing committee is created after candidacy submission dates have passed.

The members of the Electors are selected from the Department’s Registries. The Departments compile, after the Assembly’s decision, a Registry of Internal Members and a Registry of External Members, choosing the members from the General Registry of the System. The Registry of Internal Members includes full, associate and assistant domestic professors that serve in each Department. The Registry of External Members includes full, associate and assistant domestic or foreign professors that serve in other Departments of the Institution or in other domestic or foreign Higher Educational Institutions, as well as corresponding ranks of researchers in domestic or foreign Research Institutes that cover all the disciplines of the Department.

In the case of eleven-member electing committees, at least six members should must belong to the Registry of External Members, whereas in the case of fifteen-member electing committees at least eight members must belong to the Registry of External Members. The rest Electors have to belong to the Registry of Internal Members. The Internal and External Electors are substituted by an equal number of Internal and External members. The Department’s Assembly is in charge of the formation of the electing committee with the agreement of the Deanery. Regular and alternate Electors are appointed and published by decision of the dean.

The Electors set the three-member evaluation committee, in which at least one member must belong to the Department’s Registry of External Members. The evaluation committee is obliged to compose a Committee proposal, which aims to evaluate the candidate’s research output. In the context of this research output, the evaluation committee may ask for reference letters for each candidate from foreign professors or researchers of the same or relevant discipline to the position’s one.

The Electors select the most appropriate candidate and a runner up. Appropriately substantiated proceedings are drawn up and forwarded to the Rector for examination of legality. The nomination takes place by act of the Rector within two months.

The procedure of election/promotion/establishment is completed within the time limits stated in the Institution’s Organization.
Organisation, inspection and publication of the procedures of election/promotion/establishment of institutional professors, as well as submission of candidacies, are necessarily carried out via the electronic system of complete management APELLA, through which every Institution/Department compiles and maintains both Registries of Internal and External members.