Projects

Current projects:

Implementation and Innovation in QA through peer learning (IMINQA)

  • Aim:
    This is an umbrella project to support the work of the Bologna Thematic Peer Group C on Quality Assurance. The project will focus not only on quality assurance in the broad sense and thereby work on the implementation of the key commitment in all EHEA countries while making use of the peer support method, but also dive into some specific themes with an innovative focus.
  • EQAR’s role in project:  partner
  • Duration: May 2022 – May 2024
  • Funding: co-funded by ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EHEA-IBA – European Higher Education Area (EHEA) – Initiative to support to the implementation of the reforms
  • More about IMINQA (coordinated by the Flemish Community of Belgium  – Department of Education and Training)

Quality Assurance Fit for the Future (QA-FIT)

  • Aim:
    To gather comprehensive evidence and reflect if and how the current EHEA framework of the ESG is perceived to limit the responsiveness of quality assurance to trends and innovations in higher education, and if and how there should be more room for development of alternative approaches to quality assurance.
  • EQAR’s role in project:  partner
  • Duration: June 2022 – December 2024
  • Funding: co-funded by ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EHEA-IBA – European Higher Education Area (EHEA) – Initiative to support to the implementation of the reforms
  • More about QA-FIT (coordinated by ENQA)

The TPG-LRC Constructing Recognition in the EHEA (TPG-LRC CoRE)

  • Aim:
    To support the implementation of the Bologna Process, focusing on key commitment 2 (national legislation and procedures compliant with the Lisbon Recognition Convention).
  • EQAR’s role in project:  partner
  • Duration: May 2022 – February 2025
  • Funding: co-funded by ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EHEA-IBA – European Higher Education Area (EHEA) – Initiative to support to the implementation of the reforms
  • More about TPG-LRC CoRE (coordinated by CIMEA).

Past projects:

Enhancing the Coverage and Connectivity of QA in the EHEA through DEQAR (DEQAR CONNECT)

  • Aims:
    1) Expand coverage to EHEA countries currently under-represented in DEQAR, by supporting the participation of agencies that could not join DEQAR in the first stage.
    2) Enhance connectivity by exploiting existing synergies and exploring new opportunities to use DEQAR data directly in the recognition workflow, digital credentialing and elsewhere.
  • EQAR’s role in project: coordinator
  • Duration: March 2020 – May 2022.
  • Funding: EU co-funding under the Erasmus PLUS call to support the implementation of European Higher Education Area (EHEA) reforms.
  • More about DEQAR CONNECT
Microcredentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitments (Microbol)
  • Aim: the project aims for ministries and stakeholders to explore, within the Bologna Process, whether and how the existing Bologna tools can be used for or adapted to microcredentials.
  • EQAR’s role in project: associate partner
  • Duration: January 2020 – January 2022
  • Funding: co-funded by Erasmus+ KA3 Support to Policy reform, and more specifically “Support to the implementation of EHEA reforms”.
  • More about Microbol
Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR)
  • Aim: the development of a database that will enhance access to reports and decisions on higher education institutions/programmes externally reviewed against the ESG, by an EQAR-registered agency.
  • EQAR’s role in project: coordinator
  • Duration: 2017-2019.
  • Funding: EU co-funding under Erasmus+ Key Action 3 – European Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects.
  • More about DEQAR
Facilitating implementation of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes (ImpEA)
  • Aim: To support efficient implementation of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes.
  • EQAR’s role in project: associate partner
  • Duration: October 2017 – September 2020
  • Funding: EU co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
  • More about ImpEA
Enhancing Quality through Innovative Policy & Practice (EQUIP)
  • Aim: enhancing quality in European higher education by supporting and promoting a consistent, efficient and innovative embedding of the ESG at grass-root level.
  • EQAR’s role in project: project partner
  • Duration: 2015 – 2018.
  • Funding: EU co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
  • More about EQUIP
Recognising International Quality Assurance Activity in the European Higher Education Area (RIQAA)
  • Aim: to provide stakeholders and policy makers with information regarding the existing legal practices in EHEA countries recognising EQAR-registered agencies.
  • EQAR’s role: EQAR lead the project which was one without project partners
  • Duration: 2013-2014.
  • Funding: the project was co-financed with help from the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme.
  • More about RIQAA