According to the Statute (art.6bis), the Organs of UNISCAPE are:
1. the General Assembly
2. the Executive Board
3. the President
The General Assembly represents the decision-making body of UNISCAPE and consists of all Member representatives. The General Assembly meets annually in places decided by the Executive Board.
The Executive Board shall provide to run UNISCAPE. It is composed of the President, the Vice-Presidents and eight representatives appointed every three years by the General Assembly among its own components. The Executive Board appoint the Director of UNISCAPE every three years. Candidates may be reappointed for the duration of one further term.
The last election of the members of the Executive Board took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in occasion of the meeting of the UNISCAPE General Assembly (10 July 2024).
The actual composition of the Executive Board for the period 2024-2027 is the follow:
- Sasa DOBRICIC – University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (President)
- Conor NEWMAN – NUI Galway, Ireland (Vice-President)
- Margherita VANORE – Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy (Vice-President)
- Rita BIASI , Tuscia University, Italy (EB)
- Benedetta CASTIGLIONI, University of Padua, Italy (EB)
- Laura CIPRIANI, TU Delft, The Nederland (EB)
- Tana LASCU, Ion Mincu University, Romania, (EB)
- Ernesto MARCHEGGIANI, Politecnica University of Marche, Italy (EB)
- Iva MRAK, University of Rjieka, Croatia (EB)
- Marialuce STANGANELLI, University of Naples Federico II, Italy (EB)
- Maria Gabriella TROVATO, NMBU, Norway (EB)
- Tessa MATTEINI – University of Florence, Italy (Director)
The President and the two vice-Presidents of UNISCAPE are elected by the General Assembly for the term of four years. The last election took place at the 2024 General Assembly meeting (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 10 July. Functions of the President are:
- to legally represent the association;
- to assume financial responsibility of the association:
- to propose and delegate specific tasks to the Management Committee of the EB;
- to propose overall objectives and strategies for each year of his/her presidency in the GA,
- to promote the pro-active commitment of the representatives of the Member Universities as delegated by the legal representative of their University or Department, in the activities and functioning of the UNISCAPE network.
In occasion of the 2016 General Assembly meeting (Galway, 29 June) an internal regulation for the constitution of a Management Committee of the Executive Board has been approved. Its is composed by the President, the two vice-Presidents and the Director of UNISCAPE and its function is to to simplify the functioning and efficiency of the Executive Board.
No remuneration is provided for the members of UNISCAPE organs