ACTION PLANS

The Strategic Plan, under the statutory terms, is complemented by the Action Plan (Plano de Ação). This document systematises the main actions that will be triggered by the Rector’s Team, at the institutional level, which are aimed to implement the strategic guidelines listed for the 2019-2023 quadrennium.

Achieving the proposed goals depends not only on these actions, but also on the successful alignment of the goals and actions of the Action Plans of the organisational units, other units and services. Each Plan defines its panels of specific indicators/goals and actions, in a way which is properly aligned with the higher levels, thus originating the lower assessment levels.

The Quality Plan, which is directly linked to the Quality mission axis, contains the main guidelines for improving the processes and services provided within the context of each of the remaining mission pillars and axes, and areas of sustainability. By including concrete actions to be developed, goals and indicators, the information collected by means of the integrated monitoring in the assessment and monitoring cycle will be used as a management and quality improvement tool in each of the pillars, axes and areas, thus contributing to the optimisation of the Management System of the University of Coimbra. The challenges posed to higher education institutions concerning quality assessment require planning in order to use efficiently the resources, and the definition of a Quality Plan aligned with and integrated into the Strategic Plan enables to channel efforts towards the implementation of the most appropriate initiatives that respond to the UC current and future challenges.