School board

Article 11. Nature

The Board, chaired by the director, is the School’s governing body. The Board ensures that the School adequately fulfils all the functions attributed to it in current regulations, the UPC Statutes, and these regulations on its organisation and functions. 

Article 12. Composition

The School Board is composed of:

1. Ex officio members

In accordance with Article 80.2 of the UPC Statutes, the following are ex officio members of the Board:

    a. The director.
    b. The assistant directors.
    c. The secretary.
    d. The head of the management and support unit that serves the School.
    e. The head of bachelor's and master's degree management at the School.
    f.  The student delegates of the School.

2. Elected members

    a. A number of teaching and research staff representatives equal to 71 minus the number of ex officio members who are teaching and research staff.

    b. A number of administrative and service staff equal to 12 minus the number of ex officio members who are administrative and service staff.

    c. A number of student representatives equal to 26 minus the number of ex officio members who belong to the student body.

The Representation of teaching and research staff is distributed among permanent teaching and research staff with PhDs and the rest of the teaching and research staff proportionally to the teaching activity points taught at the School by each group in the last two years. The minimum number of representatives of the permanent teaching and research staff with PhDs is 56.

The Representation of permanent teaching and research staff with PhDs grouped into divisions of departments with significant teaching at the School. Significant teaching is understood as more than 2% of the teaching activity points taught at the School in the last two years. The rest of the departments that teach at the School are grouped into a single electoral division. The number of representatives for each division is proportional to the teaching activity points taught at the School by each division in the last two years.

In the distribution of the number of representatives among the electoral divisions, the rule of the larger fractions defined in the Electoral Regulations must be applied.

In the event that the percentage of permanent teaching and research staff at the University is less than 51% of the members of the School Board, their representation must be immediately increased to reach this percentage.

This increase is applied to the number of representatives from the PDI-A sector. First, any vacant posts in the electoral divisions of this sector must be filled, and, in the event that there are no vacant posts in the division, an election must be held for a single electoral division (teaching school), and the number of representatives needed to reach 51% must be elected.

The rest of the teaching and research staff have a single electoral division.

Representation of administrative staff includes the technical, management, administrative and service staff of the management and support unit they provide services to the School; the technical, management, administrative and service staff of libraries, under the terms and conditions established in the UPC Electoral Regulations, and the technical, management, administrative and service staff assigned to the School.

To elect their representatives, technical, management, administrative and service staff are classed as either statutory or contractual staff; their number is proportional according to the census. Representatives are elected by members of these groups from among these same members.

The representation of bachelor’s and master's students must ensure that each of the School's degrees with a representative with a valid vote is represented. However, if a degree does not have a representative the total number of representatives corresponding to bachelor’s and master's students is not affected.

Article 13. Functions of the Board

Within the framework of the University Statutes, the functions of the Board are:

a)    Approve the proposal for the regulations on the organisation and functions of the School and any modifications thereof, for its subsequent approval by the Governing Council.

b)    Approve the operating regulations of the School's Student Delegation.

c)    Sanction the annual management report presented by the director.

d)    Create any committees it deems appropriate for the purposes and with the powers it establishes. 

e)    Approve proposals for the creation, modification and suppression of bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees.

f)     Approve proposals for the creation, modification and suppression degree curricula.

g)    Approve the organisation of university continuing education and university extension activities, and the collaboration of the School in these activities.

h)   Approve the strategic plan within the framework of the strategic planning of the University.

i)     Approve, for submission to the Governing Council, the list of personal and material resources necessary to carry out its functions.

j)     Submit to the Governing Council the proposal for the allocation of teaching needs among the University’s departments.

k)    Agree on the federation of the School with other units of the UPC or the modification of this federation, for subsequent approval by the Governing Council, subject to the prior report of the Board of Trustees.

l)     If the School is to be integrated into a campus, agree on the delegation of powers with the other units involved, before the integration is approved.

m)  Propose initiatives and aspirations, and express its opinion on issues affecting the School or its environment.

n)    Revoke the director.

o)    Elect the elected members of the Standing Committee.

p)    Approve or sanction, during the semester following the close of the previous tax year, the economic management of the previous tax year.

q)    Propose to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya the nomination of honorary doctors.

r)     Propose to the competent bodies of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya access to the condition of emeritus professor.

s)    Organise courses, whether or not they are aimed at obtaining academic qualifications or diplomas, within its competencies and in accordance with general and university regulations.

t)     Escalate to the competent bodies of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya proposals for the withdrawal of the attachment or affiliation of a member of the teaching and research staff who is attached or affiliated to the School.

Article 14. Term of the Board

The Board is elected for a period of two years. The end of the term of the Board implies the end of the term of all the committees it has created.

Current members

Ex officio members 

1.      Pagès-Zamora, Alba
   • Aguasca Sole, Albert
   • Gené Bernaus, Joan M.
   • Mas Casals, Orestes
   • Muñoz López, Xavier
   • Postigo Boix, Marcos
   • Rey Micolau, Francesc
   • Vall-llossera Ferran, Mercè
   • Voz Sánchez, Cristóbal
2. Umbert Juliana, Anna
3. Pérez Rodríguez, Sara
4. Clavero Navarro, Albert
5. López-Chicheri Reverté, Ámbar

Elected members