University of Eastern Finland

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
FINEEC: Institutional audit
  • DEQAR Report ID
    86133
  • Agency
    Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC)
  • Type
    • Institutional quality audits
  • Status
    part of obligatory EQA system
  • Formal decision
    positive
  • Date
    03/03/2023
  • Valid until
    03/03/2029
  • Summary

    Report summary

    Audit of the Universityof Eastern Finland 2/95AbstractTitle of publicationAudit of the University of Eastern FinlandAuthorsEva Åkesson, Marc Perkins, Jürgen Seifried, Anni Siltanen, Mira Huusko and Hanna Väätäinen.Self-assessment of the University of Eastern Finland (eds.) Saila Vaittinen, Anu Arosanervo, SoiliMakkonen and Maija Lahtela-KakkonenThe Higher Education Evaluation Committee’s decisionThe University of Eastern Finland passed the audit on 3 March 2023.The Quality Label is valid until 3 March 2029.The audit team’s evaluation of the evaluation areas I-IIII: HEI creates competence: good levelII: HEI promotes impact and renewal: good levelIII: HEI enhances quality and well-being: good levelHEI as a learning organisation – evaluation area chosen by the Universityof Eastern FinlandUEF as a study and work environment for international students and employeesTheme and partner for benchlearningTheme: Continuous learning incl. stakeholder cooperation.Partner: The University of Jyväskylä
    Audit of the Universityof Eastern Finland 2/95AbstractTitle of publicationAudit of the University of Eastern FinlandAuthorsEva Åkesson, Marc Perkins, Jürgen Seifried, Anni Siltanen, Mira Huusko and Hanna Väätäinen.Self-assessment of the University of Eastern Finland (eds.) Saila Vaittinen, Anu Arosanervo, SoiliMakkonen and Maija Lahtela-KakkonenThe Higher Education Evaluation Committee’s decisionT...
  • Notes
    FINEEC's audit reports are meant to be read on FINEEC's digital audit platform https://auditoinnit.karvi.fi/auditoinnit/en/. This PDF is a printout of the website.
  • Report and decision
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/report/86133
  • Agency's identifier
    7:2023
  • External link
    View record on agency’s website
  • Verifiable Credential
  • Education provider

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.