ENQA: European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education

This week ENQA Board Member Péter Levente Lakatos attended the International Conference "Key Principles and Elements for Models of External Evaluation in Institutional and Program Accreditation" in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). 🎙️ He introduced how the ESG are applicable in diverse contexts, presented the current trends in the European Higher Education Area, and provided an update on the ongoing ESG revision. ➡️ The event was hosted by the SMEQA project, aimed at strengthening capacities and mechanisms for the enhancement of the quality assurance system in higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Learn more: https://www.smeqa.ba/ #ehea #highereducation #smeqa #highered #qualityassurance #qa

Last week, AQAS e.V. hosted the third seminar of the ENQA Leadership Development Programme 2024 and an alumni event of the programme in Cologne (Germany). 🗨️ Sessions on formal and informal leadership within QA agencies included topics such as QA accross the higher education missions, digital tools for external QA, cross-border QA and staff development in QA agencies. ➡️ Learn more about ENQA LDP 2024: https://lnkd.in/eshyyeGv #ehea #highered #qualityassurance #leadership #enqaldp Center for Higher Education Policy Studies

This week at ENQA: ✅ Meeting of the ENQA Working Group on the Quality Assurance of Research ✅ Speaking at #SMEQA International Conference on Key Principles and Elements for Models of External Evaluation in Institutional and Program Accreditation in Banja Luka (Bosnia & Herzegovina) ✅Participating in ESG Steering Committee meeting ✅Attending FOR-EU4ALL project launch ✅Site visit to Academic Information Centre (AIC, Latvia) for a partial review ✅Progress visit to Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programmes (AQAS e.V., Germany) #ehea #highereducation #highered #qualityassurance #foreu4all

🎄 Postcard from the Christmas market in Cologne! We celebrated the final seminar of the 2024 ENQA: European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education Leadership Development Program. Led by our colleagues Harry De Boer & Daniela Craciun, the seminar brought together #QualityAssurance practitioners from agencies across Europe in an intense peer-learning experience. They worked on super interesting up-and- coming topcis in the field of #QA together with mentors: - Quality assurance across the higher ed missions: Dagmar Blight, Torsten Blomkvist, Eva Fetscher & Ann Murphy mentored by Marilena Maniaci - Use of digital tools (including #AI) in higher education & external QA: Simone Via, Kristina Sutkute, Varduhi Gyulazyan, Philipp Emanuel Friedrich & Janko Balšić mentored by Axel Aerden - Cross-border QA: Lien Beyls, Emilia Primeri, Jennifer Osborne & Ștefania Armășelu mentored by Doris Herrmann - Staff development for QA agencies: Vasco Lança, Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir, Anikó Kovács & Sabine Epitalon mentored by Kristin Vinje As an added bonus, they were joined by the amazing alumni of the #ENQA LDP: Anaïs Gourdin, Ana Alvarez Calleja, Mohamed Lemine Haless, Natasa Kramar, Orlaith O'Loughlin, Vlad Popescu, Adriana Popoiu, Dagmar Provijn, Tinka Thede, Andrea Zacharova, Charlotte Elam & Andreas Boberg. What a joy to see them back in person and online! Many thanks to AQAS e.V. for hosting all of them so warmly, especially to Doris Herrmann who gave a master class in leadership and history, to Annette Büning & Jennifer Lenzen for the wonderful organisation of the event, and to Jana Newiger & Vi Le for showing us around the Christmas market. Thanks also to Cologne University of Applied Sciences for sharing their premises for the seminar and to Axel Faßbender & Christian Daniels-Lakeland for the intro to their institution's #quality processes. This concludes the 2024 #ENQA Leadership Development Program, but we know it's not goodbye, it's see you soon!

ENQA attends the Bologna Follow-Up Group's (BFUG) thematic peer-group C (TPG C) on quality assurance meeting taking place in Ghent (Belgium). 🎙️ ENQA Director Anna Gover has presented the outcomes of the QA-FIT project and the next steps for the revision of the ESG. ➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ew5dJJdN #ehea #qualityassurance #highereducation #bologna #qafit #qa European Higher Education Area

The 3rd SEQA-ESG 2 peer-learning workshop 💡 took place in Brussels (Belgium) on the topic of stakeholder engagement by QA agencies. 💬 Participants from Education Quality Assurance Agency (Azerbaijan), AHERS (Bosnia & Herzegovina), HEA (Bosnia & Herzegovina), National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (NEAQA Serbia) and The National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance - NAQA (Ukraine) exchanged good practices and brainstormed about how to improve their stakeholder engagement policies and practices. 🗨️ The event also counted on inputs by AEQES (Belgium), National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education (Czech Republic), Agency for control and quality assurance of higher education (Montenegro), Polska Komisja Akredytacyjna (Poland), SKVC (Studijų kokybės vertinimo centras) (Lithuania), and British Accreditation Council (UK). ➡️ Learn more about SEQA-ESG 2: https://lnkd.in/eSE4A47W #ehea #highereducation #seqaesg #seqaesg2 #qualityassurance #stakeholderengagement

You can now watch the recording 💻 of the ENQA webinar on supporting cultures of academic integrity: the role of quality assurance agencies in promoting and enhancing academic integrity and ensuring learning, Members of the ENQA Working Group on academic integrity shared the outcomes of their work, examples from quality assurance agencies and recommendations for action. ➡️ Find it here: https://lnkd.in/eDNwTNDn #ehea #academicintegrity #qualityassurance #highereducation #highered

This week at ENQA: ✅ 3rd Seminar of ENQA Leadership Development Programme 2024 in Cologne (Germany) ✅ Hosting SEQA-ESG 2 workshop on stakeholder involvement in Brussels (Belgium) ✅ Participating in BFUG TPG C meeting in Ghent (Belgium) ✅ Speaking at Council of Europe ETINED Platform plenary meeting #ehea #enqaldp #iminqa #seqaesg #highereducation #qualityassurance

This week, ENQA President Douglas B. has visited three member agencies and taken part in their events: ✅ On Wednesday, he spoke at Polska Komisja Akredytacyjna's Forum Jakości 2024 in Krákow (Poland) ✅ On Thursday, he spoke at Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education - SAAHE's conference "Six years of Quality Assurance in Higher Education According to the ESG in Slovakia" in Bratislava (Slovakia). ✅ On Friday, he visited AQ Austria's premises in Vienna (Austria) and provided insights into QA fit for the changing world of higher education. #highereducation #ehea #qualityassurance #qa #highered

Will you take part in making 2026 #EQAF a memorable experience for over 450-500 QA stakeholders? This important event could be hosted at your university! ➡ Apply now to become the host of EQAF 2026: https://bit.ly/4hM8y9U 🤝 Joint bids between European University Association and European Students' Union (ESU), ENQA, EURASHE members are strongly encouraged! #highereducation #highered #qualityassurance #callforhosts