DIGI-REQA

Digital Tools and Quality Assurance for Automatic Recognition

The DIGI-REQA project (coordinated by SKVC) aims to support NARICs in implementing key EU Council Recommendations and EHEA commitments in the area of automatic mutual recognition (AR) and fair recognition practices, as well as a better implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC), by focusing on three main areas:

  • Expanding and operationalising the “Multilateral Treaty on Automatic Recognition of Qualifications, signed and ratified by the Baltic and Benelux countries and open for signatures to others” (the Treaty), and the AR-go tool aimed to support its implementation;
  • Exploring and aligning tools instrumental for achieving automatic recognition;
  • Strengthening the role of quality assurance (QA) in enabling automatic recognition.

Connecting the AR-go tool with DEQAR

On of the objectives most linked to EQAR is to achieve better digitalised services for automatic recognition. To ensure this, the AR-go tool, used for generating automated statements of comparability for the qualifications covered by the Treaty, will be enhanced.

This will be done by linking AR-go with DEQAR, so that quality assurance data will be integrated.  This integration will significantly improve the digitalised services available to stakeholders covered under the Treaty, ensuring more efficient and reliable recognition.

Project Consortium

Project coordinator:

  • SKVC (Lithuania)

Project partners:

  • EQAR
  • AIC
  • Nuffic
  • NAWA
  • CIMEA
  • NVAO
  • AQU Catalunya
  • AQ Austria
  • EUA
  • ENQA
Project objectives

This project aims to address gaps in implementation of automatic recognition, emphasising practical digital tools and links with quality assurance to support students, employers, and higher education institutions as the end users of automatic recognition.

The objectives are:

  • Contributing to shared and common understanding and practices of automatic recognition within the parties of the Treaty* and a possible expansion of the Treaty.
  • Communicating the value of effective automatic recognition.
  • Exploring pathways for automatic recognition of upper secondary qualifications.
  • Achieving better digitalised services for automatic recognition (connecting AR-go with DEQAR).
  • Exploring pathways for tools developed on European level to facilitate automatic recognition.
  • Enhancing the uptake of recognition by internal and external quality assurance systems.

* Multilateral Treaty on Automatic Recognition of Qualifications, signed and ratified by the Baltic and Benelux countries and open for signatures to others

Timeline

The project will start in May or June of 2025 and will last two years.