Before the Bachelor's Degree has been operational for six years, and four in the case of Master's degrees (the date that they were recorded in the Spanish Ministry of Education's Registry of Universities, Centres and Degrees – RUCT), the official degrees must undergo an accreditation process to ensure that the curriculum is being taught in accordance with the initial project. If the renewal is accredited, it will be recorded again in the RUCT.
To maintain the accreditation, the degrees must obtain a positive accreditation report once it has been shown that the corresponding curriculum is being taught in accordance with its initial project in an assessment that must include an external visit to the institution.
In line with the provisions of its IQS, the assessed centre must establish the centre's committee which will be responsible for writing a self-report. This committee must include representatives of the different interest groups at the centre, such as academic managers, teachers, administrative personnel, students and others considered relevant. Writing the self-report is the culmination of the monitoring process and must meet the standards defined in Guide for the accreditation of Official university Bachelor's Degrees and Master's Degrees.
The Quality Agency organises a number of external assessments each year at centres through a visit by an external assessment committee (CAE), which simultaneously assesses all the official degrees offered. The aim is to ensure that all university degrees have been assessed externally at least once within the period established by the legal requirements.
Accreditations of official degrees are issued by the corresponding Accreditation Commissions and will be made taking the degree monitoring reports, the assessment reports drafted by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) during the monitoring process and the external assessment reports as the starting point. The accreditation report of a degree may: be positive; be positive with proposals for improvements; contain proposals for non-substantial modifications and, therefore, the new verification of the degree; or propose the withdrawal of authorisation to continue teaching the syllabus.
- 2009 external assessment report (PDF, Catalan)
- 2016 external assessment report (PDF, Catalan)
- 2016 external assessment report (grau de Disseny)
- 2016 external assessment report (MURAD) (PDF, Catalan)
- 2021 external assessment report (MURAD) (PDF, Catalan)
- 2021 external accreditation report (MURAD) (PDF, Catalan)
- 2023 external assessment report (Design degree) (PDF, Catalan)
- 2023 external accreditation report (Design degree) (PDF, Catalan)
The constitution of the EINA Internal Assessment Commission (CAI) for 2020 was formally approved with the following composition:
- Acting Director: Eva Parés
- Design Degree studies: Enric Garrido
- Internal Guarantee and Quality System (IGQS) manager: Javier Nieto
- Quality Specialist: Vivian Fernàndez
- Quality support: Rubén Alcaraz
- Teachers representative: Anna Majó
- Administration and Services representative: Núria Palahí
- Students representative: Andrea Balaguer
A Drafting Committee was also approved by the CAI, with the following composition:
- Enric Garrido
- Dolors Soriano
- Vivian Fernández
- Rubén Alcaraz
On July 20, 2022, the accreditation process begins with a first meeting in which the internal procedures to be followed for accreditation are proposed. The constitution of the CAI is proposed to the different EINA groups on 09/22/2022, thus defining the members of the Drafting Committee and CAI.
The visit of the External Assessment Committee is scheduled for February 3, 2023. The constitution of the External Assessment Committee is:
- President: Inmaculada López Vílchez, Universidad de Granada.
- Academic Vocal: Agustín Martín Francés, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- Estudent Vocal: Inés Bullich Corcoy.
- Professional Vocal: Rocío Inés Arredondo Kiss, Universidad Cardenal Herrera.
- Methodology Secretary: Guillermo Jáñez Cuervo
You can find more information in the agenda of the visit.
The constitution of the EINA Internal Assessment Commission (CAI) for 2020 was formally approved with the following composition:
- Direction and Quality manager: Pau de Solà-Morales
- Deputy director: Ramon Parramon
- Degree studies: Enric Garrido
- Masters and Postgraduate studies: Vivian Fernández
- MURAD: Gerard Vilar i Tània Costa
- Teachers representative: Raúl Oliva
You can find more information in the agenda of the visit.
The constitution of the EINA Internal Assessment Commission (CAI) was formally approved in the Centre Assembly of 2 December 2015, with the following composition:
- Management: Oriol Pibernat
- Bachelor's Degree coordinator and quality manager: Dolors Soriano
- Master's degree coordinators: Lluís Nacenta, Gerard Vilar, Vivian Fernàndez (secretary of the Commission)
- Teachers' representative: Lluc Massaguer
- PAS representative: Rubén Alcaraz
- Students' representative: Queralt Guinart
A Drafting Committee was also approved by the CAI, with the following composition:
- Oriol Pibernat
- Dolors Soriano
- Lluís Nacenta
- Vivian Fernàndez
Between November 2015 and May 2016, the appointed Drafting Committee drew up the accreditation self-report. This self-report was generated on the basis of the data gathered in the annual reports resulting from the monitoring plus the centre's overall considerations and valuations that arose during the drafting process.
Once the self-report has been approved by the CAI, with the approval of the Quality Agency and the preliminary report of the AQU experts, the document will be available here and submitted for public consultation by all the members of the EINA community (with prior identification).
The constitution of the External Assessment Committee was:
- President: Maria Luisa Hodgson Torres - Universidad de la Laguna - Fine arts. Design
- Academic Vocal: Eugenio Bargueño Gómez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Design
- Professional Vocal: Vicenç Marçó - Association of Professional Designers
- Vocal student: MethodologyFerran Sellarès Ribas - BAU Centre de Disseny de Barcelona - Design Degree
- Secretary: Marta Mas - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Evaluation