Scientific Council

The Faculty Scientific Council (CSF) is the faculty’s highest scientific body.

Opinions and recommendations

It issues opinions and recommendations on:

• The organisation and content of teaching.
• The organisation of research work.
• Proposed research programmes.
• Proposals to create or close departments, study tracks and research laboratories.
• Programmes for opening, renewing, suspending and closing postgraduate courses.
• Teaching staff profiles and needs.

Approvals

It is further responsible for approving:

• Postgraduate research topics.
• Proposed compositions of postgraduate defence panels.
• Habilitation panels proposed by the departmental scientific council.
• The faculty’s teaching and scientific activity reports, forwarded by the Dean to the Rector together with the council’s opinions and recommendations.

It may also be referred any other academic or scientific matter submitted to it by the Dean.

Composition

In addition to the Dean of the faculty, the Faculty Scientific Council comprises:

• The Vice-Deans.
• The heads of department.
• The chairs of the departmental scientific committees.
• The director or directors of research units and research laboratories, where applicable.
• Two elected staff representatives per department.
• The head of the faculty library.

Staff representatives are elected by their peers for a three-year term, renewable under the same conditions, from among the permanent teaching staff of the highest grade in active service within the faculty.

The council’s members elect from among the staff representatives of the highest grade a chair, for a three-year term renewable once under the same conditions. The list of members of the scientific council is set by order of the minister responsible for higher education.

Operation

• The Faculty Scientific Council meets in ordinary session once every three months, convened by its chair.
• It may meet in extraordinary session at the request of its chair, of two thirds of its members, or of the Dean of the faculty.
• It exercises the powers of the research unit scientific council set out in article 16 of executive decree no. 99-257 of 16 November 1999.

Exceptionally, the CSF may propose setting up an ad hoc committee to deal with specific matters, which may include members from outside the council. It may also invite, in an advisory capacity, any person able to assist it in the work of a session.