AVEPRO

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AVEPRO is the abbreviation of the Agency of the Holy See for the evaluation and improvement of the quality of ecclesiastical universities and faculties ( Italian : Agenzia della Santa Sede per la Valutazione e la Promozione della Qualità delle Università e Facoltà Ecclesiastiche ). This institution, which serves to evaluate and improve the quality of ecclesiastical universities , is an institution of the Roman Curia and was established in 2007 within the scope of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus .

history

The agency was founded on September 19, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Installed. "The agency's task is to promote and develop a quality culture within the academic institutions that are directly affiliated to the Holy See, and thus to ensure quality criteria that are valid at an international level." The foundation of AVEPRO is due to the 2003 accession of the Holy See to the Bologna Process . With this the Pope announced that he recognizes and wants to realize the political project of a unified European higher education area . The agency's working basis was originally the Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana of April 15, 1979 (“Regulations governing ecclesiastical universities and faculties”). Since 2018 she has been responsible for the implementation of the Apostolic Constitution Veritatis Gaudium of December 8, 2017. AVEPRO works closely with the Congregation for Catholic Education , the Bishops' Conferences , the dioceses , the Pontifical Universities and other ecclesiastical higher education institutions. It supports the development of guidelines, questionnaires, databases and information networks and organizes expert visits. As part of the reform of the Curia under Pope Francis , it was expanded and staffed at the beginning of 2019.

Organization and staff

The agency is headed by a president, since June 2018 that is the Polish Redemptorist and biblical scholar Andrzej Wodka CSsR. The first president was Franco Imoda SJ , who was rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1998 to 2004 . The President is assisted by a Director and the Secretariat, with whom he forms the Presidium. The agency's business is overseen by the Board of Directors, which is chaired by the President. The Austrian Friedrich Bechina FSO , who coordinated the connection of the papal higher education system to the Bologna Process on the part of the Vatican Education Congregation and is considered the most prominent expert of the Roman Curia for international university policy, was appointed to the agency's administrative board in 2009. Other advisory experts are grouped together in the Scientific Advisory Board ; they are appointed by the President for a term of five years. The Würzburg canon lawyer Heribert Hallermann has been a member of the advisory board since April 2, 2012 . The German moral theologian Sigrid Müller, who teaches in Vienna , has been a member of the advisory board from 2011 to 2015 and again since 2018 . At the beginning of 2019, Pope Francis appointed seven new members to the advisory board, including four women and the Swiss pastoral theologian Salvatore Loiero , who until 2013 had been managing director of the German sister agency for the accreditation of canonical courses in Germany (AKAST). In addition, observers can be appointed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pastor Bonus Art. 186 and 190-191
  2. ^ A b c Appointment of Professor Salvatore Loiero by Pope Francis. Communication from the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , January 27, 2019, accessed May 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Pope appoints four women for quality assurance at universities. In: Katholisches Medienzentrum , January 15, 2019, accessed May 2020.
  4. ↑ Organization on the agency's website, accessed May 2020.
  5. ↑ Presidium entry on gcatholic.com ( Memento from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Lecturer on Bologna Day 2014, March 24, 2014, Vienna University of Economics and Business (PDF; 590 kB). Brief profile of the speakers, pp. 1–2.
  7. ↑ Catholic Theological Faculty: Professor Hallermann appointed expert at the Vatican evaluation agency AVEPRO . theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de. April 17, 2012. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sigrid Müller . Curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Vienna, accessed in May 2020.
  9. ↑ Press release (PDF; 59 kB) from the University of Friborg (Switzerland) on the inaugural lecture by Salvatore Loiero on May 28, 2014, accessed on May 26, 2020.