Scientific-Technical Council

Scope of action

1st - The Technical-Scientific Council is primarily responsible for:

1. Preparing and approving its own regulations;
2. Assessing the school’s scientific activity plan;
3. Providing an opinion on the creation, transformation or extinction of research centers or organic subunits with specific purposes;
4. Providing an opinion on appointment proposals for course coordinators;
5. Providing an opinion on proposals for the establishment of each course’s scientific committee;
6. Providing an opinion on the creation of new study programmes, as well as approve the curricula plans for and any changes to the study programmes presently taught;
7. Providing an opinion on the suspension or termination of study programmes;
8. Deciding on the distribution of teaching services, subject to approval by the ESD Dean;
9. Approving the regulatory standards for undergraduate and master's courses;
10. Approving the programmes of the curricular units proposed by the responsible professors, after consulting the relevant course coordinators; 
11. Assessing the evaluation reports of undergraduate and master’s courses;
12. Establishing the conditions and rules of equivalence of curricular units;
13. Establishing the procedures for accreditation in ESD courses of training carried out within the scope of other higher education courses or technological specialization and/or the recognition of professional experience and post-secondary training;
14. Approving the precedence regime;
15. Approving the constitution of exam boards for the ESD access local contest;
16. Approving the constitution of evaluation and appeal boards for the evaluation of the school’s curricular units;
17. Proposing or providing an opinion on the granting of titles or honorary distinctions;
18. Proposing or providing an opinion on the institution of school awards;
19. Proposing or providing an opinion on the implementation of national or foreign protocols, contracts, agreements and partnerships;
20. Proposing the composition of exam boards and academic competitions;
21. Carrying out other acts as stated by law relating to teaching and research careers and the recruitment of teaching and research staff;
22. Carry any out other functions assigned to itself by law or the relevant ESD statutes.

2nd - The members of the Technical-Scientific Council may not speak on matters relating to:

1. Acts related to the career of professors with a higher career category than their own;
2. Contests or tests for which they meet the conditions to be opponents.

Composition

1st - The Technical-Scientific Council is made up of fifteen members, with the following composition: 

1. Representatives elected by and from the following groups:
   1. Career professors;
   2. Those equivalent to professorship with a full-time contract with the school for more than 10 years in this category;
   3. Professors with a doctorate degree, on a full-time basis, with a contract lasting no less than one year, whatever the nature of their contractual relationship with the institution;
   4. Educators with a specialist title not covered by the previous paragraphs, on a full-time basis with a contract with the institution for more than two years;
2. Representatives of recognized and positively evaluated research structures, in accordance with the law, if applicable, corresponding to 20% of the members.

2nd - While not allowed to vote, the following subjects may be invited to participate in the Scientific-Technical Council’s assemblies:

1. Educators from ESD itself, in addition to those indicated in the previous paragraphs;
2. Professors and researchers from other institutions;
3. Personalities of recognized competence within the scope of ESD's mission.

3rd - When the number of eligible people is lower than that established in the 1st point, the Council is made up of all which are eligible.

President: Cristina Graça (adjunct professor)
Vice-president: João Fernandes (adjunct professor)
E-mail: cgraca@esd.ipl.pt