College of Europe

Collège d'Europe

College of Europe

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Belgium (Flemish Community)
    • Institutional review and programme accreditation
      University colleges and universities require an institutional review and they have to organize the assessment of the quality of their programmes. Other higher education institutions require programme accreditation. For all new programmes an initial accreditation and a first accreditation by NVAO is mandatory. Only education providers included in the Flemish Higher Education Register can award legally recognised degrees. Programme accreditation is still required for the delivery of new programmes or for programmes with a limited period of accreditation (the ‘Codex Hoger Onderwijs’ 2013).
    • Further information on external quality assurance in Belgium (Flemish Community)

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

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Institutional level

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Programme level

    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
    Transatlantic Affairs, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master in Transatlantic Affairs
    • Level
      second cycle (NQF 7)
    • Joint programme with
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Political and Governance Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Political and Governance Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Law (LLM), second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of European Law (LLM)
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Economic Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Economic Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Interdisciplinary Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    Transatlantic Affairs, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs
    • Level
      second cycle
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Interdisciplinary Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Economic Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Economic Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Law (LLM), second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of European Law (LLM)
    • Level
      second cycle
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Political and Governance Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Political and Governance Studies
    • Level
      second cycle
    Historic report
    Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
    European Political and Administrative Studies, second cycle
    • Qualification
      • Master of Arts in European Political and Administrative Studies
    • Level
      second cycle

    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.