UNITA financial sustainability

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Task number	2
Name	UNITA financial sustainability
Strategic Axes	Quality, Impact and Sustainability, Governance
Workpackage	Impact and dissemination

Objectives

• This Task is focused on identifying and/or developing tools for ensuring the financial sustainability of the alliance, as well as increasing the success rate in third-party funding through systemic cooperation on complementary project proposals.
• Aim of the task: Ensure the financial sustainability of the alliance by identifying the UNITA activities and initiatives that generate potencial income and valorising multiple sources of financing, and implementing a new economic model for the alliance:
  • UNITA Project Engine Office:
  • Connected to various support departments of members
  • All sources of income considered:
  • Including microcredentials and lifelong training
  • New sustainability plan

Inputs & Resources

Source documentation:

• UNITA Tasks_Team_List_20231120
• UNITA Budget documents

Resources

• Human Resources: List of staff on the task, roles and position:
• Financial: Budget allocated to the task:
• Materials: Type of materials required (computers, software, scientific tools):
• Intangible: Type of intangible materials (communication tools, data bases,…):

Activities & Sub-Tasks

Source documentation: In each WP folder, document entitled “WPx_full_description)

• Task Description – T4.4 description
• GANTT – WP4 GANTT

List of activities	Activity title	Activity description	Deadline
1	Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from phase one and to Quality Assurance practices.	The new partners have been associated with the project's activities since June 2021, resulting in an easier and shorter acquaintance process.	(M1-M2)
2	Update the general synoptic assessment of partner Quality Assurance systems.	Building on phase one benchmarking by the QEB, by including the new partners' QA systems frameworks. Update and adopt the UNITA Quality Assurance policy to be implemented at partner and alliance level, with quantitative and qualitative indicators fitting the new WP and Tasks structure. Define opportunities of partner Quality Assurance synergies, further developing the common Quality Assurance policy respecting different institutional/regional/national contexts. Together with TTs 1.2 and 5.4, agree on the methodology for the evaluation of progress, processes, cost-efficiency, and deliverables, including systematic feedback from students, staff and stakeholders. Update the Quality Assurance plan by drawing a map through a logical table relating Tasks and indicators, defining all the processes to reach the objectives, and building a management quality system with procedure and codification for each process or activity. Train all the Task teams to the quality assurance policy and plan.	(M3-M12)
3	Implement and test the evaluation of progress, processes, cost-efficiency, and deliverables of the first year.	Producing a report for the QEB. Support the QEB in the production of the annual report with recommendations for the Governance Board (GB). Monitor the implementation of the corrective actions decided by the GB and evolve the quality assurance requirements and plan accordingly. Repeat evaluations emphasising identified areas of improvement. Evaluate and realize the independent assessment given by an external European Evaluation Agency, accommodating modifications in the interest of improvement. Draw lessons from the implementation of the quality assurance plan integrating best practices based on an inventory, mapping of the main QA processes on teaching, research, and public engagement.	(M13-M48)
4	Co-develop together with TT1.1 and disseminate the UNITA Quality Assurance strategy.	Matching with the ambition of developing a model of European University. Internally disseminate the strategy to all actors and in particular to the Quality Assurance Boards of the partners. Benchmark Quality Assurance strategy and practices with other European Universities by organizing and participating to mutual learning workshops.	(M24-M48)

Indicators

These indicators have been gathered from the different source (list below) and have been gathered from interviews driven by Task 5.4 UNITA impact observatory.

Source documentation: In each WP folder, document entitled “WPx_full_description)

• Task Description – T5.2 description
• GANTT – WP5 GANTT
• List of Indicators – UNITA indicators

Primary indicatorsSecondary indicatorsSub-Indicators

These indicators have been chosen and agree during the Phase 2 proposal made to the European Commission.

Indicator	Indicator Description	Unit of measurement	Data Source	Frequency	Baseline	Target	Type
a	Number of submitted UNITA multi-partner projects	Numerical	Project Engine Office	6 months	8	40	Output

To be defined by T5.4 members previously to interviews and to be proposed to task co leader

Indicator Description	Unit of measurement	Data Source	Frequency	Baseline	Target	Type
Number of researchers involved in UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Numerical	Project Engine Office	6 months	0		Output
Number of awarded UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Numerical	Project Engine Office	6 months	0		Output
Amount of money awarded in UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Monetary	Project Engine Office	6 months	0		Output
Number of submitted UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO (proposals)	Numerical	Project Engine Office	6 months	0		Output

To be defined by T5.4 members previously to interviews and to be proposed to task co leader

Data collection

Indicator Description	Data Source	Collection Type	Data Owner
Number of researchers involved in UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Project Engine Office	Manual	Project Engine Office
Number of submitted UNITA multi-partner projects	Project Engine Office	Manual	Project Engine Office
Number of awarded UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Project Engine Office	Manual	Project Engine Office
Amount of money awarded in UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO	Project Engine Office	Manual	Project Engine Office
Number of submitted UNITA multi-partner projects run by the PEO (proposals)	Project Engine Office	Manual	Project Engine Office

Impacts

Source documentation:

• Task and WP long-term objectives Task Description – T4.1 description - WP5 Objectives
• UNITA Mission Statement (from Grant Agreement)

	Users / Beneficiaries Intern to UNITA	End-Users / Beneficiaries extern to UNITA
1) Who are the stakeholders benefiting of the task’s actions?	Partners of UNITA	To check with the T5.1 list To be defined in interview
2) To what extent has the local/international society changed as a result of outcomes compared to before UNITA? What are the long term results for them?	1. Lifelong Learning activities & microcredentials 2. Common infrastructure 3. Common “official” academic services 4. Joint research projects 5. Other joint projects 6. Other activities suitable for being jointly developed 7. Curriculum internationalization 8. Student and staff mobility 9. Romance languages and intercomprehension 10. PhD cotutelles 11. Joint quality/impact assessment 12. Joint communication, dissemination and marketing activities 13. Joint promotion of European citizenship 14. Joint promotion of sustainable human resources policies 15. Joint promotion of green sustainability in UNITA campuses	To be defined in interview