The strategic alliance of the Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia is sustained by a system of government in which all the organizations comprising the campus participate.
The campus is made up of 26 core allied members and 54 affiliate entities:
- Rovira i Virgili University (core member)
- 8 public research bodies (core members)
- 4 technology centers (core members)
- 4 science and technology parks (core members)
- 4 hospitals (core members)
- 4 business sector associations and federations
It also includes organizations from the productive sector, financial sector, local and regional public administrations and international institutions (affiliated entities).
The model of governance is based on the constitution of a legally established entity, the association called the "Southern Catalonia Knowledge Hub Association". This is an association made up of the original core members in which affiliated entities and advisory bodies participate along with local and regional public administrations. The purpose of the association is to bring campus stakeholders together to work towards the creation of a solid international centre capable of becoming a driving force in society and in the knowledge economy through the five specialized sub-campuses.
A senate has also been constituted in the form of a working committee in which only core allied members can participate. In other words, it is a board made up of academic and research institutions. Allied members of the CEICS have full legal rights, make up the general assembly and choose the board of directors.
The bodies that make up the association are complemented by three types of council:
- Advisory council: in which members with full legal rights can participate (allied members) along with the appropriate representatives from local and regional administrations.
- Business council: in which members with full legal rights can participate along with associates from the productive sector.
- International council: in which members with full legal rights can participate along with associated international bodies.
The government of the CEICS, in addition to ensuring that the objectives of the project are met, makes use of a communication and information system shared by all the participating entities. The system guarantees the international diffusion of the work carried out at the CEICS and facilitates the decision-making process.
Francesc Díaz provides support to the chair and is responsible for developing the strategic relationships required to achieve the aims of the association. He will initially be responsible for the project to develop three doctoral schools in the fields of chemistry, archaeology and prehistory.
Jordi Cartañà is responsible for managing the CEICS' administration, assets and finances and is involved in organizing and implementing the decisions of the general assembly and the board. He received his doctorate in chemical sciences from the University of Barcelona and has been a lecturer and researcher
Josep Anton Ferré Vidal is the rector of Rovira i Virgili University, having been elected by the university community on 13 May 2014.
Joaquín Ruiz de Arbulo was born in Tudela in 1958 and is professor of Roman Archaeology at the URV, coordinator of the Master's degree and interuniversity doctoral degree in Classical Archaeology that is jointly run by the URV, the UAB and the ICAC and director of studies and research at the ICAC. He was a lecturer in Greek and Roman Archaeology at the University of Lleida from 1990 to 2010, teaching coordinator for the degree in Archaeology and deputy head of the Institute of Archaeology at the URV from 1996 to 1999. He has coordinated efforts to make archaeological inventories of the city of Lleida (1990-1991) and has participated in research projects at Pompeii (1992), Ostia Antica (1988-89) and the Roman Theatre in Tarragona (1998-2000). He was director of the Urban Archaeology and New Technologies Network from 1999 to 2001.
Francesc Díaz is a physicist at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona. He has published 280 articles in international scientific journals, 4 books, 3 patents and 43 book chapters. His research focuses on the nanostructure of materials, spectroscopy and the laser actions in rare earths in crystalline matrices. He has been the principal researcher on more than 50 R+D+I projects funded by public institutions and has led more than 30 such projects funded by private companies.
Salvador Anton Clavé Salvador Anton Clavé is professor of Regional Geographic Analysis at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Geography and director of the Tourism and Leisure Science and Technology Park. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Exeter and Nottingham (UK), and at the George Washington University and at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His research focuses on analysing the restructuring of established coastal tourist destinations, local and regional tourism planning, the development of leisure activities and installations, and questions regarding tourism and local development. Of particular note among his publications are the books The global theme park industry (2007) and, as a collaborating author, Análisis territorial del turismo y planificación de destinos turísticos (2011).
Albert Bordons was born in Barcelona in 1951 and has lived in Tarragona since 1974. In 1973 he graduated in Biology at the University of Barcelona, where he also obtained his doctorate in Biology in 1987. In 2011 he was made emeritus professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the URV's Faculty of Oenology in Tarragona and he is a member of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. He was head of the Department from 1996 to 2001, coordinator of the course in Biotechnology (which he ran from 2005 to 2008) and also dean of the Faculty of Oenology from 2008 to 2011). He was awarded the URV Social Council's Prize for Teaching Quality in 2004.
Lluís Arola, was born in Tarragona in 1952. He completed his doctorate in Biological Sciences at the University of Barcelona in 1978 and is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. Prior to this he was a lecturer at the URV and the Universities of Barcelona and of the Balearic Islands.
Robert Sala is professor of Prehistory at the URV and a researcher at the Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES), where he works on the evolution of behaviour and human technology, and on the dispersal of human populations.