ERASMUS+
Strengthening Capacities and Mechanisms for Enhancement of Quality Assurance System in Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SMEQA)
SMEQA project is based on the need of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) society for resolving the issue of system of quality assurance in higher education (e.g. accreditation) by improving quality assurance system at higher education institutions and capacity building at all institutions in B&H for the future process of accreditation. The project activities are focused on institutional strengthening of accreditation mechanisms, harmonization of processes in B&H and systematic implementation of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Project outputs are oriented on detailed analysis of current state in B&H, strengthening of quality assurance agencies, ministries and higher education institutions through developing, improving and implementing the model of accreditation procedure, establishing mechanism of coordination and harmonization of quality assurance system in higher education in B&H, developing recommendations for regulating the internal quality assurance procedure and development of trainings for experts.
Project coordinator is University of Zenica and beneficiaries are seven B&H higher education institutions, ministries, two quality assurance agencies.
Partners from European Union are University of Ljubljana, University of Split, Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE) and Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA).
Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE
SMEQA project started on January 1st 2024.
Automatic Recognition in the EEA, 2025 (AR25)
Automatic Recognition in the EEA, 2025 (AR25) aims to support the implementation of the Council Recommendation and achieve automatic recognition by 2025: Bring institutional recognition procedures in line with LRC principles through promotion of the Spotlight self-assessment tool; – Support (future work on) the recognition of study periods in upper secondary education via mapping national arrangements in recognition and identifying challenges and areas for improvement – Build capacity among higher education institutions on how to evaluate micro-credentials, including on automatic recognition and update STACQ app; Update the EAR-HEI manual to support streamlining of recognition practices Target groups are: Higher education institutions, ENIC-NARIC centres, stakeholders in recognition in the EHEA and EEA (quality assurance organisations, rectors conferences etc), stakeholders in mobility in upper secondary education.
Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-NARIC-IBA
Project Coordinator: NUFFIC, Netherlands
Project partners: BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER BILDUNG, WISSENSCHAFT UND FORSCHUNG (BMBWF), Austria; AGENCIJA ZA ZNANOST I VISOKO OBRAZOVANJE (AZVO), Croatia; UDDANNELSES- OG FORSKNINGSSTYRELSEN (DANISH AGENCY), Denmark; EDUCATION AND YOUTH BOARD (Edu Youth Board), Estonia; FRANCE EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL (FEI), France; UDARAS NA HEIREANN UM CHAILIOCHTAIAGUS DEARBHU CAILIOCHTA (QQI), Ireland; ASSOCIAZIONE CIMEA (CIMEA), Italy;
STUDIJU KOKYBES VERTINIMO CENTRAS (SKVC), PIC 989821563, Lithuania; MALTA FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAUTHORITY (MFHEA), Malta; NASJONALT ORGAN FOR KVALITET I UTDANNINGEN NOKUT (NOKUT), Norway; NARODOWA AGENCJA WYMIANY AKADEMICKIEJ (NAWA), Poland; UNIVERSITETS- OCH HOGSKOLERADET (UHS), Sweden.
Project starting date: April 2023
Project end date: April 2025
Mediterranean Automatic Recognition Network (MAReN)
The main objective of the project “MAReN: Mediterranean Automatic Recognition Network” is to support and encourage achieving the goals of the European Education Area, in particular the implementation of the Council recommendation on promoting automatic recognition of higher education and upper secondary diplomas and the outcomes of learning periods abroad. The scope of the MAReN project is to foster automatic recognition in the Mediterranean region, starting from the project partner countries, by creating a network of ENIC-NARIC centres working on automatic recognition in the Mediterranean region; developing tools to support the daily work of credential evaluators; establishing synergies with other initiatives related to automatic recognition in other regions, especially the one developed in the Adriatic region with the AdReN project. The project team is composed by CIMEA as coordinator with ASHE, FEI, NARIC Spain, NARIC Portugal as partners. To coordinate the actions of the network, its secretariat will be established at the University of Naples Federico II that will guarantee the sustainability of the network after the lifetime of the project. All projects outcomes will be available on the MAReN website that will be the tool to be used by all the relevant stakeholders. The expected project impact is the implementation of automatic recognition between the countries of the Mediterranean region through the development of tools, like the comparison table, that are intended to support higher education institutions and other stakeholders in the field. Another important aspect related to this project is the enhancement of cooperation between the NARICs of the Mediterranean Region and, as a consequence and thanks to their involvement, the ministries of higher education of the countries involved that will be facilitated by the establishing of the secretariat of the network.
Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-NARIC-IBA
Project coordinator: ASSOCIAZIONE CIMEA (CIMEA), Italy,
Project partners: AGENCIJA ZA ZNANOST I VISOKO OBRAZOVANJE (AZVO), Croatia; FRANCE EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL (FEI), France; MINISTERIO DA EDUCACAO E CIENCIA (MEC), Portugal; MINISTERIO DE UNIVERSIDADES (MUNI), Spain.
Project duration: 24 months (starting from April 2023)
DEQAR CONNECT – Enhancing the Coverage and Connectivity of QA in the EHEA through DEQAR
The Agency for Science and Higher Education is a partner in the Enhancing the Coverage and Connectivity of QA in the EHEA through DEQAR (DEQAR CONNECT) project which is being led by the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education – EQAR.
DEQAR is a two-year project, beginning in January 2020 and ending on 31 December 2021, which continues on several projects funded by the European Commission, among which is a project Database of External Quality Assurance Reports (DEQAR). The aim of DEQAR project was developing a European database with information on the outcomes of the evaluation of higher education institutions. On the other hand, DEQAR CONNECT aims to expand the above-mentioned database to include agencies in the European Higher Education Area that were not previously covered by the DEQAR project, as well as to improve the use of DEQAR data. The project will be funded by the European Erasmus+ program.
The Agency for Science and Higher Education has been registered at EQAR since 25 November 2011 and the EQAR Council Decision on June 20 2017 has renewed its membership.
A detailed description of the project is provided in the link: https://www.eqar.eu/kb/projects/deqar-connect/