Governing Bodies

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Council

The Council is the governing body of the School and is responsible for:

  • Strategic planning and governance: defining, updating and implementing the School’s Programme and overall activities, including the annual Plan of educational activities
  • Academic organization: planning and overseeing teaching and research activities, and defining procedures for admission, teaching, evaluation, course structure, credit allocation, language training, tutoring and internships
  • Staff and collaborations: providing opinions on the appointment of members of the Graduate School Committee (funded by the School), and managing contracts for visiting professors and external Italian and international experts
  • Financial management: overseeing and managing the School’s budget

The Council may also appoint an International Scientific Committee with advisory functions on the development of the School’s activities. 

See also Current composition

Board

The Executive Board is the collegial executive body of the School of International Studies. 

Its members are:

  • the Director;
  • the Deputy Director;
  • the Coordinators of the Master’s degree programmes;
  • the Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme;
  • the Delegate for Research;
  • the Delegate for Teaching Activities.

Other members of the SIS faculty and one student representative are invited to participate in Board meetings when matters relevant to these initiatives are discussed.

The composition of the Board represents all the relevant Departments. To this end, it may be supplemented by one or more members appointed by the Director.