Documento sul Sistema di Assicurazione e Gestione della Qualità
General description of the Quality Management System at the University (approved by the Academic Senate on 21 July 2015 and by the Board of Directors on 28 July 2015). This document is only available in Italian.

Il Sistema di Assicurazione di Qualità dell’Ateneo
Annually updated description of the roles, procedures and deadlines for quality management at the University.  This document is only available in Italian.

Presidio di Qualità di Ateneo
Quality Assurance Unit at the University. This information is only available in Italian.

Nucleo Di Valutazione
University Evaluation Team. This information is only available in Italian.

Universitaly
This information is only available in Italian.

Each University Department designates one or more professors as the official representatives of Teaching, Research, and Third Mission Quality Standards. These persons dialogue directly with the Evaluation Team and the Quality Assurance Unit of our University, and contribute by helping to define the internal policies together with our Vice-Rectors and other delegates. This professor coordinates all the Coordinators, the Re-examination Teams, and the Joint Committee. For the Department of Economics and Finance, the representatives are Professors Maura Mezzetti, Lorenzo Carbonari, and Stefano Grassi (nominated on 19.12.2023, 12.03.2024 and confirmed on 19.11.2024 by the Department Council).

Each University Department designates a staff member, who coordinates the human resources of the Department’s working on Teaching, Research, and Third Mission Quality Assurance. For the Department of Economics and Finance, this is Cristina Di Ienno (nominated on 19.12.2023, 12.03.2024 and confirmed on 19.11.2024 by the Department Council).

Each University Department designates a staff member, who is the reference person for the human resources of the Department’s working on the Teaching, Research, and Third Mission Quality Assurance. For the Department of Economics and Finance, this is Chiara Tranquilli (nominated on 12.03.2024 and confirmed on 19.11.2024 by the Department Council).

Here is the link to the website for the Quality Assessment of the Department of Economics and Finance .

Here is the strategic planning for the years 2024-26 of the Department of Economics and Finance.

Each University School designates a Joint Committee, composed of students and professors whose roles and activities are indicated in the Regolamento delle Strutture Didattiche e Di Ricerca (which is only available in Italian).

For the School of Economics, the Teaching Manager is Giuseppe Elia Petrone and the reference Professor in the Presidio di Qualità is Luna Leoni.

Monitoring is regularly performed to ensure high educational standards and that internal policies are followed and corrective actions taken when necessary. Through use of periodic consulting of the supporting structures, the academic council may take measures to guarantee the continual improvement of the academic objectives as well as the tools used to achieve these objectives.

Each academic program identifies a professor responsible for Quality Assurance, which usually coincides with the Program Director.

The Program Director is responsible for the following activities:
• Operative manager for the entire quality monitoring process of the academic program. He is responsible for the planning, the implementation and the monitoring of the academic program (including the preparation of documents such as the annual evaluations Scheda di Monitoraggio Annuale and the cyclical evaluations Riesame Ciclico);
• He is the guarantor of the level of Quality of the academic program. He informs the Head of the Department about possible problems which might interfere with the correct actualization of the academic activities, also with the help of students’ feedback;
• He communicates the results of actions and decisions taken, also through use of the "Scheda di Monitoraggio Annuale".

The Director of the PhD in Economics and Finance (for a three-year period 2023-2026) is Professor Gaetano Bloise, a professor in the Department of Economics and Finance.

The PhD in Economics and Finance Academic Board expresses its opinion of the subjects of competence of the academic program and formulates proposals to the Department Council in regard to academic planning, the educational program content, individual study plans, and the monitoring of teaching activities.

The composition of the PhD in Economics and Finance Academic Board is posted at this link.

The Director is assisted by the "Team for the PhD program review", which check data in regard to the academic program (teaching activities and student services). Reviewing the PhD activities includes the identification of the academic program’s strengths and weaknesses, the preparation of a proposal of actions aimed at improvement, and the verification of the correct implementation of the actions taken.

The Quality Assurance Group is responsible for the following evaluation activities:
• Verification of the interest and demand for education in a particular academic area;
• Verification of the specific objectives of the academic program and their consistency with the qualifying objectives of the students as well as the current needs of the job market;
• Verification of the existing job opportunities and their coherence with the qualifying objectives of the class and the academic program, as well as the needs of the job market and the analysis of the external effectiveness of the academic program;
• Verification of the expected learning outcomes;
• Monitoring of the adequacy of the University infrastructure and student services.

The PhD in Economics and Finance Team for the PhD program review and Quality Assurance Group (Gruppo di Riesame) is composed of the following members:

• Professor Gaetano Bloise
• Professor Stefano Herzel
• Professor Alessandra Pelloni
• Student Representative Federico Roscioli
• PhD program Office assistant Valentina Vaiuso

More details about the activity of this Teams is available here.

The PhD program in Economics and Finance rules may be consulted here.

PhD students are regularly involved in the compilation of questionnaires aimed at evaluating the quality of the academic program, teaching, and University services.

Students are required to fill in an online questionnaire each time they renew their request for enrollment to the next academic year (according to the ANVUR guideline). The online procedure is straightforward and facilitates the gathering of useful information in an anonymous way from students, and the results are published from SISValDidat annually. The questionnaire provides the students with a vehicle to express their opinions regarding several aspects relevant to their expectations as students including the courses, the professors providing lectures, the teaching material and the University facilities. The student opinions are essential to understanding where improvements can be made, and the compiled results are shared with professors, the University President, the Academic Program Coordinators, the Joint Committees, the Monitoring Teams, the University Evaluation Team and all the other bodies of the University.
In the meanwhile the official results from SISValDidat will be updated, we collected the students' opinion about courses, structure and organization:
- the evaluation of our first year PhD students about A.Y. 2023/24 with our internal questionnaire is posted here;
- the evaluation of our first and second year PhD students about A.Y. 2023/24 with the ANVUR questionnaire is posted here.

Therefore, students, are asked to be responsible and provide honest and complete evaluations, because the results will be analyzed and used to develop strategies to improve the quality of the students’ academic experience at Tor Vergata University of Rome. 
Moreover, to help the academic program monitor quality more deeply, PhD in Economics and Finance Alumni are requested to fill in an additional evaluation after 1, 3 and 5 years of the program completion. These questionnaires are administered by Almalaurea, and they evaluate different elements than those submitted by ANVUR during the PhD career. Evaluation of students’ opinions from past academic years may be found here.

The Advisory Board for the PhD program in Economics and Finance is composed by the following members:

- Gianluigi Albano (Consip);
- Gionata Castaldi (MEF);
- Andrea Claudio Cosentini (Intesa San Paolo);
- Giuseppe Pio Dachille (INPS);
- Federico Dini (ANAC);
- Domenico Depalo (Banca d'Italia);
- Simone Salvadei (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti);
- Costanza Torricelli (Unimore).

Professor Marianna Brunetti is the President in charge of this Advisory Board, nominated on October 23, 2024.

The PhD Coordinator suggests to meet the Board once a year to evaluate the attractiveness of the training project on the market. In addition, it is suggested to organize annually a training and convivial event for doctoral students, in which each member of the Committee shares its professional experience and presents opportunities for career in their own institution and similar institutions.
During these meetings, minutes of the consultation of the Interested Parties will be drawn up, as set out in the AVA3 Guidelines, which will be an integral part of the analyses and assessments of the Review Group during the monitoring and planning phases.

The meetings held with representatives of management and labor will be documented and will be available for consultation (the information is in Italian). 

Questionnaires are regularly submitted to the representatives of management and labor in order to evaluate whether the specific objectives of the academic program are aligned with the needs of the job market. Subsequently, the questionnaires are used to determine whether the academic program is sufficiently preparing students to qualify to meet the needs in the professional sector related to their studies. The information provided allows for an evaluation of the external effectiveness of the academic program and helps determine whether changes should be made in the academic programming to further facilitate graduates to find jobs when they complete the academic program (the information is primarily in Italian). Details will be found here.