September rd Workshop Phnom Penh EMMA East 2014 Quality Assurance

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh QA-Concept (agreed during Cottbus workshop) 1.already introduced “monitoring” documents in the EMMA management database for all mobilities 2.introduction of an appeal process 3.annual informal QA reports from all partner, summarized in one joint QA report Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Governance Model QA/Institutional level Fills Administrative LoB Students Content QA/Individual level Project level QA Institutional Level QA Individual Level QA Students Teachers Staff Administrative LOB Academic programs (BA, MA, PhD, Post- doc) Experts Guidelines Financial sector Cooperation

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh 1.Monitoring Documents (EMMA Management Database) internal reports / monitoring: - Mission Document - Learning Agreement LA / Research Project RP: - Report (1st Sem) - Report (2nd Sem) - Report (End Mobility) - Report of the Home Supervisor - Report of the Host Supervisor - EMMA Certificate EACEA survey ey ey Quality Assurance

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh 2.Appeal Process introduced for 2 nd cohort appeal form on EMMA web page process: - form send applicant to head of EMMA QA - pre-check and evaluation by EMMA QA coordinator incl. feedback from involved EMMA partners -> proposal for decision - final decision by board of directors 2 nd cohort: one appeal - new additional documents to change to TG3 (after deadline) - appeal declined: -> documents were delivered after deadline -> poorness is no criteria Quality Assurance

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh 3.Annual QA partner reports introduced for 2014 (selection of cohort 2) informal report by each partner (2-4 pages) template/example proposed by BTU collected and evaluated by QA coordinator feedback: 13 out of 17 (!!) -> Quality Assurance Report 2014 send to EU as part of progress report Quality Assurance

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh Quality Assurance Report 2014 summary and evaluation of the partner reports -> successful project performance steps e.g. set-up of LOB, workshops, 1 st cohort, … -> specific and general problems e.g. (English language skills, length of staff mobilities, mobility balance among partners) -> proposals for improvements e.g. Skype meeting with applicants, specific bilateral cooperations Quality Assurance

September rd Workshop Phnom Penh Future Strategy to keep QA as simple as possible to continue using the presented three parts next annual QA report (2015): to be written until end of February > performance of cohort 2 -> application and selection process of cohort 3 -> TG3 problem Quality Assurance