UNITA sustainable policies for students and staff

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    Task number 1
    Name UNITA sustainable policies for students and staff
    Strategic Axes Communities building
    Workpackage Developing UNITA communities



    Objectives

    Joint action to establish well developed and flexible student and staff policies at partner and alliance level, to formulate ambitious and reachable well-being, inclusion and equity, career development, organizational innovation and student cooperation.

    Establish well developed and flexible student and staff policies aiming at measurable increases in 5 fields:

    1. Student and staff well-being
    2. Inclusion and gender equity
    3. Staff training, career and leadership development within the alliance
    4. Intra- and extra entrepreneurship
    5. Connecting students’ organisations and initiatives.

    Inputs & Resources

    Source documentation:

    Resources

    • Human Resources: List of staff on the task, roles and position: Co-leaders Joaquín Romero Roldán UPNA & Delia Virga UVT + 28 TT members (Profiles: often from QA offices or QA teams/VR)
    • Financial: Budget allocated to the task: 42.140€+75.200€ for “other costs” of the WP2 as a whole, but no specific distribution per task.
    • Materials: Type of materials required (computers, software, scientific tools,…): Datacloud, Big Blue Button.
    • Intangible: Type of intangible materials (communication tools, data bases,…): Datacloud applications; +++

    Activities & Sub-Tasks

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

    List of activitiesActivity titleActivity descriptionDeadline
    1Introduce 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)
    2Update 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)
    3Implement 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)
    4Co-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:


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

    IndicatorIndicator DescriptionUnit of measurementData SourceFrequencyBaselineTargetType
    aNumber of dissemination events, courses, and focus group meetings on the different domains of the taskNumericalUNITA OfficesAnnual20Output

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

    Indicator DescriptionUnit of measurementData SourceFrequencyBaselineTargetType
    Level of satisfaction/personNumericalUNITA OfficesAnnualOutcome
    Number of common model assumed by UNITANumericalUNITA OfficesAnnualOutput
    Number of policies assumed from the common model by each universityNumericalUNITA OfficesAnnualOutput
    Number of staff beneficiated from each activity/universityNumericalUNITA Offices6 monthsOutput

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

    Data collection

    Indicator DescriptionData SourceCollection TypeData Owner
    Level of satisfaction/personUNITA OfficesManualTask 1.2
    Number of dissemination events, courses, and focus group meetings on the different domains of the taskUNITA OfficesManualTask 1.2
    Number of common model assumed by UNITAUNITA OfficesManualTask 1.2
    Number of policies assumed from the common model by each universityUNITA OfficesManualTask 1.2
    Number of staff beneficiated from each activity/universityUNITA OfficesManualTask 1.2

    Impacts

    Source documentation:

    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
    Academic and administrative staff from each partner’s university
    Students from each partner’s university
    To check with the T5.1 list
    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 ? At the societal level, if we strengthen UNITA Communities:
    • Able to transfer more knowledge to society in research, teaching and innovation so the progress will increase
    • Strengthen European Union
    • offer of good practices For other universities and alliance
    • Relevant training for leaders in Academia
    Gain knowledge in a better inclusive way.
    It's the same as an intern in a sense. Better integration and inclusivity for students throughout Europe.
    3) To find indicators for impact, they suggested to do a survey/interview, perhaps the same they are thinking of doing now, at the beginning of the project, and see differences at the end of the project Satisfaction Survey, interviews, checklists Satisfaction Survey, interviews, checklists