Open University of Catalonia

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Universidad Abierta de Cataluña

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
IQAs Audit
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
IQAs Audit
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional accreditation

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
University Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Màster Universitari en Enginyeria Informàtica
    • Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Informática
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
University Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Màster Universitari en Enginyeria de Telecomunicació
    • Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
User Experience and Interaction Design (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Diseño de Interacción y Experiencia de Usuario
    • Disseny d'Interacció i Experiència d'Usuari
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Video Games Design and Programming (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Diseño y Programación de Videojuegos
    • Disseny i Programació de Videojocs
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Video Games Design and Programming (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Diseño y Programación de Videojuegos
    • Disseny i Programació de Videojocs
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Web Site and Applications Development (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Desarrollo de Sitios y Aplicaciones Web
    • Desenvolupament de Llocs i Aplicacions Web
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

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.