Quality strategy

Quality policy

At the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, our strong and continual commitment to quality and continuous improvement across all areas of our activities is an essential part of our identity and strategy.

Accordingly, we have established the present quality policy as a reference framework for quality assurance and have ensured that it is fully aligned and consistent with the University's mission, vision and principles, with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

We are keenly aware of our responsibility when it comes to delivering a quality service and of our role as a public institution and veritable motor for evolution and progress in society; consequently, we foster a systematic, participatory and cross-disciplinary quality culture that enables us to achieve our goals and ensure the full satisfaction of our stakeholders.

This quality culture consists of the following quality assurance strategies, which:

• Promote systematic mechanisms for planning, measurement, evaluation, continual improvement and accountability.
• Encourage the participation of the university community and the socioeconomic environment.
• Actively take into account the needs, expectations and opinions of the groups and organisations with which the University engages.
• Integrate quality into all university activities and share responsibility across the entire community.
• Ensure that the University is managed in accordance with efficient, transparent and results-oriented processes.

In accordance with this commitment, the URV directs its actions toward achieving excellence in teaching, research, knowledge transfer, social engagement and resource management. At the same time, we aim to consolidate our position as a leading institution in the national and international spheres.

To continue progressing, the URV establishes the following quality objectives, which aim to:

• Provide academic courses that promote lifelong learning and that are critical, transformative and connected to the needs and expectations of the society and the territory.
• Promote a teaching model at the URV that offers enriching learning experiences by encouraging training in skills and competences, personal growth and employment.
• Promote research and innovation to generate knowledge, incorporate it into the accademic programme and transfer it to the productive sectors, thereby ensuring that it has a meaningful social and territorial impact.
• Encourage interdisciplinarity, open science and global education so as to actively contribute to social and cultural development and reinforce  collaboration with societal and territorial stakeholders.
• Promote the national and international recognition of quality in all areas of the University's activities.
• Reinforce the URV's international recognition through academic and scientific cooperation with worldwide collaborators.
• Increase the participation of all stakeholders in its decision-making and management processes.
• Simplify, optimise and modernise processes to respond to emerging challenges and incorporate technological advancements in an ethical and responsible manner.
• Enhance the use of data governance to support strategic decision-making.
• Create optimal conditions to promote and attract talent in all the areas that the University operates in.

Approved by the Senate on november 20, 2025