The Academic Council

• it is consulted by the Board of Directors on the principles for setting the budget and the framework for faculties;
• it advises the Board of Directors on all matters relating to the use of teaching resources and the allocation of human resources;
• it is empowered to draw up, in consultation with the Rector's Council, proposals for plans concerning new strategies in teaching and research;
• it makes proposals relating to studies, examinations and, in general, the educational organization of the institution;
• it issues opinions on all requests for new accreditation, on all training projects and on proposals to discontinue courses;
• it adopts the study and examination regulations prepared by the teaching administration, to be approved by the Board of Directors;
• it approves faculty regulations;
• it ensures consultation and coordination in academic matters (teaching and research) between faculties and between faculties and inter-faculty services;
• Based on proposals made by the Research Council, it issues an opinion on projects relating to the organization of research.
• it issues an opinion on any proposal to reorganize the structure of the faculties;
• it decides on the rolling plan for scientific missions within the framework of a budget set by the Board of Directors.

Deans are elected for a four-year term, renewable once. Unless an exception is requested by the faculty council and granted by the Board of Directors, they are chosen from among the faculty's full-time professors. They act as liaisons with the Board of Directors, the Rector's Council, and the Academic Council, ensuring that the tasks entrusted to them are carried out and coordinating teaching, research, and community services within their faculty.