New qualifications for the university, it starts in July – The Republic

ROME – Last night the Minister of Education and University, Stefania Giannini, signed the decree reforming the criteria and parameters for the evaluation of candidates for the national scientific Enabling . This will start to launch within tight deadlines – by the summer, it supports the Giannini and will the next July – the new selection round to bring professors and associates in university chairs. The empowerment procedure, provided for by the university reform of 2010, is being reviewed under this ministry “to simplify and improve unwinding times and choice.”
Procedures
On March 7 the Council of Ministers It had been approved the new regulation for the dell’abilitazione conduct with the introduction of a stop-shopping procedure: the question now will be submitted by the candidate at any time of the year. On that occasion it was magazines how to draw commissions to ensure greater representation of disciplines and dell’abilitazione duration had been extended from four to six years. This first decree is already in the Official Journal. The second decree, the “reform policies” fired yesterday by the Minister, instead will now go to the Court of Auditors. To complete the reform with the third decree provided it was not until university ANVUR agency’s work. “We will have more certain” unwinding time, ensures the Minister Giannini. The first qualified for the second round should get in the chair in the spring of 2018.
Maximum number of publications. The decree just signed provides that the maximum number of publications that each candidate can present for the Enable (ASN) will be from 10 to 16, according to the discipline and teaching band for which you compete. In the previous round you have been raised several objections precisely on the number of works, often presented in photocopy or with just a few variations to grow the amount and then the assigned rating.
Valid titles. as for certificates valid for the activation, says the new decree, “it will be necessary to achieve at least two of impact of scientific production indicators”, so you need to prove “ownership of at least three more titles.” Among them: “The organization or participation as a speaker at scientific conferences in Italy or abroad, the scientific responsibility of national and international research projects” and again: “Teaching Positions research at universities or research institutes esters, responsible for the study and research entrusted by qualified public or private institutions, the achievement of awards for scientific activities included membership in academies of recognized prestige in the sector, the development, use and commercialization of patents ” . And finally: “The results achieved in technology transfer in terms of participation in the creation of new businesses”. This last point wants to give weight to the industrial application of individual searches.
Criteria and parameters. There are innovations in the criteria and parameters for the assessment of qualifications and scientific publications. In the case of publications, are affected by, among other things, “the originality, the methodological rigor, innovative nature, quality in relation to the national and international scene, as well as the editorial classification of scientific products from publishers, necklaces or major magazines national or international “. The indicators for monitoring the impact of scientific production were better defined by specifying, for example, “the time period in which the works are to be published.” On the titles of scientific journals choices there have been fierce controversy in the first evaluation period.

The Commissioners. With regard to the assessment of the scientific qualification of the aspiring Commissioners, the decree speaks of a generic “raising of the selection parameters than in the past”. Among other things, it will be suppressed the “International Commissioner”, figure in the first round of 2012 has almost never participated in the evaluation of candidates. It should be mentioned that for the first round of national scientific Qualifications have been several disputes and appeals to the TAR.

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