Academic bodies | Scuola Normale Superiore

The Director

The Director, assisted by the Deputy Director, represents the Scuola Normale in all academic and institutional offices.

The Federated Executive Council

The Federated Executive Council is the governing collegiate authority of the federated universities and carries out financial, economic, patrimonial and personnel planning, guaranteeing the economic and financial sustainability of the activities of each federated university.

The Governing Council

The Governing Council develops, coordinates and harmonizes the Scuola's guidelines and lines of development in the field of teaching and research. It acts as a link between the academic structures and in general between the structures of the Scuola. It can proffer advice to the Director and the federated Executive Council on all matters submitted to its examination and in all cases envisaged in the present Statute and in the regulations.

The Federated Auditors' Board

The Federated Auditors' Board is the collegiate authority of the Scuola and of the other federated universities and is responsible for ensuring that the management is run in accordance with proper administrative-accounting practice.

The Federated Evaluation team

The Federated Evaluation team is the collegiate authority of the Scuola and of the other federated universities, and is responsible for the internal evaluation of the administrative management and of teaching and research activities; it ensures, partly through comparative analysis of costs and returns, the correct use of public resources, the productivity of research and teaching, impartiality and good administrative performance.

The General Secretary

The General Secretary is responsible for the overall management and organization of the services in accordance with the general guidelines established by the Director and by the other governing authorities of the Scuola.

The academic authorities

The Scuola is divided into four academic structures: the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, the Faculty of Sciences, the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the"Carlo Azeglio Ciampi" Institute of Advanced Studies.
The authorities of the academic structures are the deans and the councils of the academic structures.

The Deans

The Deans represent their respective academic structures. They promote and coordinate the teaching and scientific activity; they convene and preside over the councils of their respective academic structures, ensuring that they function properly and that their decisions are carried out.

The Councils of the Academic Structures

The Councils of the Academic Structures organize the teaching activities, the academic testing of students and the research activities of the various scientific-disciplinary areas related to the structures.

Other roles

The Director, after consultation with the Governing Council, appoints a Deputy Director from among the full professors of the Scuola with a full-time contract. In order to carry out specific or particular tasks related to his mandate, the Director can also avail himself of a maximum of seven prorectors or delegates, choosing and appointing them from among the full and associate professors or researchers of the Scuola with a full time contract.

The Deputy Director

The Deputy Director assists the Director in the exercising of his functions, and replaces him, in the case of absence or impediment, in the legal representation of the Scuola.

Pro-Rectors and Delegates

In order to carry out specific or particular tasks related to his mandate, the Director can avail himself of a maximum of seven pro-rectors or delegates.

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