Publication Policy on Transition to the Revised ESG 2027
The Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) are currently being revised and the new version should be adopted by the EHEA Ministers at the Ministerial Conference in Romania/Moldova in 2027.
Since such a revision deeply impacts the process of the quality assurance agencies’ registration process in EQAR, there was a clear need to develop provisions for a transition period after the revision of the ESG.
For that reason, EQAR developed a Policy on Transition to the Revised ESG 2027 which outlines the framework to be applied with agencies’ applications immediately before and after the revision. Since this impacts a number of agencies currently registered in EQAR, as well as agencies that might still apply for their initial registration, this policy was developed in close collaboration and alignment with ENQA, to ensure that the interests of agencies are properly taken into account and that the transition to the revised ESG is smooth and seamless.
The policy aims to allow agencies to plan ahead and enable a swift transition, by giving them sufficient time to adjust their structures or processes to the revised ESG, while at the same time ensuring that all agencies on the Register will have been admitted or their registration renewed based on the revised ESG at the latest by 2033.