Quality Management at TU Wien

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Quality management at TU Wien covers the entire organization and has various processes and instruments for quality assurance and further development in the areas of studying and teaching, research, innovation and international affairs, as well as administration. The instruments at the central level serve the rectorate and the deans in assessing the effectiveness of quality development and control processes and provide a basis for strategic decisions.

The aim is to create a common quality culture, which helps to improve cooperation between the different subject cultures and all areas of the university and to further improve the fulfillment of the core tasks and the international positioning of TU Wien.

The quality principles form the framework of the quality management system and show how quality is defined at TU Wien.

The basis of TU Wien's quality management system is the quality cycle or PDCA cycle. The planning, implementation, review and further development of key control processes ensures continuous quality assurance and further development and takes international criteria and standards into account.

The quality management system is participatory. All members of the TU Wien - i.e. employees and students - have the task of ensuring the high-quality performance of their activities within their scope of action. Responsibility for quality management lies with the university management. It sets the direction in which TU Wien should continue to develop in terms of quality and what is implemented in a quality culture geared towards this. Other participants provide support.

The external certification of TU Wien's quality management system takes place at regular intervals in the form of a quality audit according to test areas that are specified in the University Quality Assurance Act (HS-QSG). This also demonstrates to the outside world that TU Wien fulfils its institutional responsibility for ensuring and developing quality with a university-wide quality management system.