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Governing Council

Governance

Art. 93 of the UdG articles of association: “The Governing Council is the university’s main governing body”.

Structure of Governing Council

Article 96
Competences
The powers of the Governing Council are as follows:

  1. Promote and approve the strategic plans of the University of Girona at the proposal of the Government Team.
  2. Establish the fundamental guidelines and application procedures for all policies of the University of Girona.
  3. Approve the regulations of the University of Girona within the framework of these Articles of Association, attributing regulatory authority to the bodies it deems appropriate, and approving the operating regulations of the service inspection and the procedures for the annual accounting of this inspection.
  4. Choose their representatives on the Board of Trustees and in other bodies established by current legislation.
  5. Propose to the Board of Trustees, for their approval, the budgets of the University of Girona and the dependent entities, their annual accounts, and their multi-year funding plan.
  6. Approve the creation, amendment and elimination of structures, entities, services, and areas of study, and approve, if applicable, the regulations of operation.
  7. Approve the educational offer and programming of the University of Girona.
  8. Propose the creation, amendment and suppression of official and in-house studies.Approve new study plans and their amendments.
  9. Propose to the Board of Trustees the individual allocation of additional remuneration for teaching activity, research activity, knowledge transfer and innovation exchange activity and management activity, as well as other additional remuneration that the legislation allows for to establish.
  10. Create advisory committees that support the functions and competences of the University of Girona provided for in these Articles of Association, and designating its members.There will be at least one commission in the areas of language and gender equality.
  11. Define and approve the plans for attracting, stabilising and promoting teaching and research staff and technical, management, administrative and service staff.
  12. Approve the calls for positions and the list of jobs of teaching and research staff and technical, management, administrative, and service staff, as well as approving their amendment to expand existing positions or to reduce or change the name of vacant positions, which must finally be approved by the Government of Catalonia, except in legally established cases.
  13. Approving the conditions for validating official studies.
  14. Determine the system for student access to the University and the capacity of studies in accordance with the legislation in force.
  15. Approve the regulations for assessing teaching and research staff and technical, management, administrative, and service staff.
  16. Approve the agreements for collaboration and academic and research cooperation signed between the University of Girona and other national or foreign universities, as well as with other institutions, bodies, entities, or companies for academic or research purposes, unless this competence is attributed by the Governing Council to other statutory bodies through internal mechanisms for the distribution of competences.
  17. Approve the affiliation agreements of public and private higher education centres with the University of Girona, as well as with research centres and technology centres.
  18. Approve the nomination of honorary doctorates and other distinctions awarded by the University of Girona.
  19. Define and promote, in coordination with the unit tasked with guaranteeing equality and diversity, a gender equality plan for the university community as a whole that incorporates, if applicable, sexual orientation and gender identity and a plan for the inclusion and non-discrimination of all staff and sectors at the University of Girona for reasons of disability, ethnic and national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, and for any other social or personal condition; develop protocols and develop prevention and response measures against violence, harassment or discrimination; report on the approval of the Equality Plan and the Inclusion and Diversity Plan negotiated with the representatives of the University of Girona and the legal representation of workers, which will contain at least the matters required by the regulations in force in this area.
  20. Approve the ethical principles that must govern the functioning of the University of Girona.
  21. Define and promote a climate change mitigation strategy, which must include energy efficiency plans and substitution for renewable energies, sustainable and local food and mobility.
  22. Establish the conditions in which members of the collegiate bodies can combine their work in these bodies with the development of their training and their teaching, research and professional career.
  23. Any other jurisdiction attributed to it by these statutes or by current legislation.

Article 94
Composition
The Governing Council is composed of a maximum of 54 members:

  • The rector, who will chair it.
  • The general secretary, who will act as the secretary of the Governing Council.
  • The manager.
  • Four representatives of the university teaching bodies and permanent teaching staff elected by and among the members of the Senate of this sector.
  • A representative of non-permanent teaching staff and research staff chosen by and among the Senate members in this sector.
  • A representative of non-permanent research staff chosen by and amongst the Senate members in this sector.
  • A representative of the associated teaching staff chosen by and among the members of this sector.
  • Six student representatives chosen by and among the Senate members in this sector.
  • Six representatives of the technical, management, administrative and service staff elected by and among the Senate members of this sector.
  • Eight representatives elected by and among the deans of faculties and school directors.
  • Five representatives elected by and among the heads of department.
  • Two representatives elected by and among the directors of university research and investigation institutes.
  • Two representatives from the Board of Trustees that do not belong to the university community.
  • The rector will appoint the other Governing Council members to make a total of 54.In any event, these appointments will guarantee the presence of a representative of the directors of the doctoral schools and of all the deans of the faculties and all school directors.

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