The Quality Assurance (QA) system for the Research and Third Mission/Social Impact is described in detail in the section of the University portal dedicated to Quality Assurance. The Department established Groups for Quality Assurance of Research and Third Mission/Social Impact composed as follows:

Group for the Quality Assurance of Research:
• Prof. Leonardo Giusti (Quality Assurance Officer)
• Prof. Gabriele Croci
• Prof. Marcello De Matteis
• Prof. Massimo Dotti
• Prof. Stefano Ragazzi
• Prof. Laura Sironi

Group for the Quality Assurance of the Third Mission/Social Impact:
• Prof. Giuseppe Chirico (Quality Assurance Officer)
• Prof. Silvia Penati
• Prof. Maurizio Martinelli
• Prof. Emilio Martines
• Prof. Mario Zannoni
• Prof. Valeria Vadalà

The Groups are assigned the tasks of monitoring and promoting the quality policy at the Department level by identifying the necessary improvement actions and by verifying their implementation as follows:

Research AQ Group:
•    every year prepares the Department's "three-year monitoring plan", accessible through the "Fatti e Persone" portal;
•    on the basis of previously defined criteria, distributes the University Funds - Departmental Quota - among the professors and researchers belonging to the Department, in agreement with the current University regulations;
•    assists the Director to write the Department Three-Year Plan;
•    carries out constant monitoring of the scientific productivity of the Department and of its impact also through bibliometric parameters;
•    verifies the scientific activity of post-docs by evaluating their production through bibliometric parameters.

Third Mission/Social Impact AQ Group:

•    every year prepares the Department's "three-year monitoring plan", accessible through the "Fatti e Persone" portal;
•    assists the Director to write the Department Three-Year Plan;
•    verifies the effectiveness success of training initiatives aimed at high school students and teachers and professionals;
•    verifies the impact and success of the consultances services by evaluating the amount of services and the corresponding revenues;
•    verifies the impact and success of Public Engagement activities by constantly evaluating the number of students enrolled in the Degree Courses, in the third-party and consultancy activities and in the pre-industrial research activities.