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In that capacity, he promoted the French Institutes of Technology, mainly outside Europe and worked with a variety of stakeholders.

Stéphane Lauwick has extensive experience not only in the French higher education sector, at the University Institute of Technology (IUT) in Le Havre, but also at a European level, as former President of EURASHE.

Stéphane was elected as President of EQAR at the General Assembly in Stockholm, in May 2023. He can be reached via the following email: stephane.lauwick@eqar.eu.

which focuses on issues related to higher education learning and teaching, recognition and quality assurance. She is also a member of the Swiss Accreditation Council.

Before joining EUA in January 2022, Maria was for over a decade the Director of ENQA, the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher as well as member of the EQAR Executive Board in 2013-2020. She took part in European policy making processes within the Bologna Process and through cooperation with the European Commission.

Prior to joining ENQA, Maria worked for nine years in the field of international higher education in different European organisations and as a private consultant and has gained significant experiences on issues such as quality assurance, international higher education, and higher education reform.

Maria is a graduate of University College London and the London School of Economics.

Horia serves as President of ESU, working in the organisation on overarching political priorities (Bologna Process, European elections etc), quality assurance of education, learning and teaching policies, digitalisation and social dimension of higher education.

He represents ESU in positions such as as co-chair of the Drafting Committee of 2024 Tirana Communique, co-chair of the Bologna Follow-Up group on Social Dimension and member of European Quality Assurance Register Board and BFUG Board.

He also follows EU developments on education funding and monitoring through National Recovery and Resilience Plans and the European Semester and has been representing ESU in the Steering Committee on Education of Council of Europe.
Horia holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Public Procurement degree from the University of Bucharest.

(the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education). In this role she manages the work of the ENQA Secretariat, works with the ENQA Board to translate the strategic plan into activities for the benefit of the ENQA membership, and represents ENQA in events and meetings across Europe and beyond. In addition she coordinates ENQA’s input to quality assurance policy developments within the Bologna Process and internationally.

Anna has almost 10 years of experience working in quality assurance of higher education, and previously worked for the European University Association (EUA).

(the European association that represents institutions offering applied/professional higher education)

Jakub was previously Vice-President of the European Students’ Union (ESU), where he helped develop the organisation’s advocacy and built its capacity in the area of Quality of Higher Education, Students’ Participation in HE Governance, Bologna Process, and the developments of the European Education Area. In this capacity Jakub already served one year on the EQAR Executive Board.

Jakub has a Master Degree in Engineering/Industrial Management and a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering.