1. Approve proposed agreements between the university and healthcare institutions.
  2. Approve, at the proposal of the Board of Governors, the rules governing students’ progress and continuance at the university, taking into account the characteristics of the different degree courses so as to prevent discrimination against the students.
  3. Agree, with a view to ensuring that no one is excluded from Pompeu Fabra University for financial reasons, a university policy for the granting of scholarships, grants and loans for study and research, and the corresponding waivers of fees falling under the university’s jurisdiction, in accordance with the principles of transparency, competition and objectivity.
  4. Propose the criteria and objectives of the university’s strategic planning in the academic sphere.
  5. Report on proposals for the creation, modification, merger or elimination of schools or degree courses and the implementation or elimination of degree courses leading to the award of official academic degrees, as well as changes in their names, location and who they are for.
  6. Report on proposals for the creation, modification, merger, elimination, affiliation or disaffiliation of university research institutes.
  7. Report on proposals for the affiliation or disaffiliation of schools to offer official degree courses and the implementation or elimination of official degree courses at those schools.
  8. Report, at the proposal of the Board of Governors, on the implementation or elimination of unofficial UPF-endorsed degrees.
  9. Report on proposals to recognize the integration into the university of higher education institutions as university schools so that they can offer official degree courses.
  10. Promote, in all spheres of the university community, student participation in the university’s governing bodies and the dissemination of those bodies’ work.
  11. Promote cooperation between the university and other public or private entities to supplement the training of the university’s students and graduates and facilitate their entry into the job market.
  12. Ensure proper job placement of the university’s graduates.