University of Vienna

Universität Wien

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Austria
    • Institutional and initial programme accreditation
      Private higher education institutions
    • Own methodology
      University colleges of teacher education
    • Institutional audit
      Public universities; universities of applied sciences after an uninterrupted accreditation period of 12 years
    • Institutional and initial programme accreditation
      Universities of applied sciences
    • Further information on external quality assurance in Austria

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Filter reports

Agency
Status
Activity
Decision
Report valid

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional audit

Programme level

Decision: positive Joint programme
Law and Economics, second cycle
Historic report
Decision: positive Joint programme
Law and Economics, second cycle
Decision: positive
Veterinary Medicine
  • Qualification
  • Level
    -

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.