The Rovira i Virgili University (URV) is one of the five institutions (and the only university in Catalonia) recognized as Evaluation Agencies of the Instituto Cervantes. The Instituto Cervantes is an official public institution of the Spanish government. One of its aims is "to promote the education, the study and the use of Spanish universally as a second language" through its Spanish Language Evaluation Service (SELE).
Under an agreement with the Instituto, the URV is responsible for producing Quality Assessments of Spanish-language teaching centers to evaluate their suitability to become Accredited Centers of the Instituto Cervantes or to have their accreditation extended.