The categories in which the good practices submitted to the Monitoring Centre must necessarily fit are the following:

1. Good practices in the development of academic activities.
2. Good practices in the development of research activities and innovation​.
3. Good practices in the development of cultural, academic, scientific and technological dissemination and diffusion activities.
4. Good practices in the direction and resource management of the Chairs for the development of their activities.

For these purposes, a good practice in any of the four mentioned fields is defined as the set of principles, measures, actions and experiences that, having reported different types of benefits (academic, improvement of university employment, economic, social, satisfaction, etc.) for organisations promoting the institutional chair in a confirmed and proven way, can be considered as a possible reference to keep helping other entities improve.