The FUOC watches over the correct and efficient governing and management of the University and carries out inspection, evaluation and control work necessary to guarantee the best possible quality of the educational process.
The Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Foundation for the Open University of Catalonia) was created through an initiative of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia) on 6 October 1994, to encourage the creation of its own offer of distance-learning university education.
Its chief aim is to promote the creation and recognition of the UOC, which gives preferential treatment to research into methodologies and techniques applied to distance-learning university education.