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NOVA SIMAQ

NOVA's Internal Quality Monitoring and Evaluation System

NOVA SIMAQ is NOVA's Internal Quality Monitoring and Evaluation System. It is aligned with the University's Strategic Plan, covering all its activities and ensuring the involvement of all stakeholders (internal and external). It aims at the continuous improvement of NOVA's Quality, responding to the legal requirement of implementing its own Quality assurance systems.

NOVA SIMAQ is structured along five core domains: Teaching-Learning, Research and Development, Value Creation, Internationalization, and Interinstitutional and Community Collaboration, the latter two being transversal to the others. The support areas for these domains correspond to Human Resources, Material Resources and Services, Social Welfare Services, Information Management and Information Publicity, as shown in the following figure.

 

 

NOVA SIMAQ follows the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act) management cycle approach during which evidence of the system's effectiveness is produced, as shown in the following figure.


(UO = Unidade Orgânica)

To support the operationalization of the PDCA management cycle, the NOVA SIMAQ Portal was created.