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(see: Appendix – Management and organizational chart). Each faculty has its own management structure that
includes 3 vice-deans (for academic programs, research-international relations and for social-student issues),
the heads of departments and the representatives of each department in the Faculty council (see: Appendix –
Faculties chart). Each department has responsible staff for each of its activities, reflecting the “up-down
university’s management line”. According to the organizational chart, the management for the academic and
research, quality assurance, human resources, international relations, institutional development and socialstudents
issues related activities, are comprised in the university management structure, in connection with
the administrative and support departments and services (see: Appendix – Central administration and support
services chart).
The coordination of the executive activities is done by the Council of Administration which includes, under the
leadership of the rector, the vice-rectors and the faculty deans, the administrative general manager, and the
students’ prefect. The Senate, coordinated by the president, assures the control of the activities’ legality and,
by its legislative power, takes decisions and may modulate the executive-management power (the
Administration Council).
A continuous improvement process, by the de-centralization of the management responsibilities, is envisaged
in the next 4 years in order to:
� Consolidate the strategic management that implements the national/EU legislation and the internal
USAMV Cluj-Napoca management decisions;
� Increase the decision-making responsibility at faculty and departments levels, by expanding the
participatory approach
� Implementation of innovative strategies promoted by the university, including the development of specific
entrepreneurial-support entities.
The Human Resources Policies in USAMV Cluj-Napoca mainly focuses the following issues:
� Permanent increase in the quality of the academic staff by: recruitment of highly qualified young
specialists, full utilization of the extensive array of expertise of the academic staff, and by staff promotion
based exclusively on professional performance criteria;
� Continuous improvement of the competencies of the academic, non-academic and administrative staff,
including specific courses offered by USAMV Cluj-Napoca (i.e. didactics, IT, foreign languages, quality
management, etc.), and support for staff mobility and experience exchanges.
USAMV Cluj-Napoca is relying its own development strategy and policy on a well established framework of
internal quality evaluation and assurance system. Having implemented this system for more than 10 years
ago, the Quality culture and Quality Assurance Policy (QAP) are well defined, in line with the current USAMV
Cluj-Napoca development and the national standards, and consider multiple targets (re)formulated according
to Education Law 1/2011. According to the international and national context, the university established its
own set of internal quality standards and developed the appropriate strategy by a process coordinated by the
Rector. Together with the vice-rector for Quality Assurance and Human Resources, the Department of Quality
Assurance is responsible for the sustainability of the quality assurance system (QAS) implementation. QAS is
yet structured at all levels, from departments, to faculties and university, including the specific quality
standards for teaching staff, researchers and postdoctoral scholars, non-academic and administrative staff, as
well as for students (including PhD students).
Based on actual management performances, is envisaged a continuing improvement of the flexibility in
decision making, transparency and communication, through the development of an extended information
system.
3.2. Academic profile
USAMV Cluj-Napoca has full autonomy in defining and implementing its educational strategy and objectives
which aims its excellence in the competence areas of agriculture-food-animal science, related
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