1. 11-12 November 2011, Moscow, Russia
Bologna 2020 – New Developments in European Quality Assurance of Higher Education
lmplementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance Systems - The Sixth Annual Conference of Experts in Higher Education
11-12 November 2011, Moscow, Russia

2. ENQA, EQAR, CEENQA, EQANIE, ENAEE, ECTNA, INQAAAE, APQN
ASIIN in Europe
broad based alliance anchored in the scientific community and in the economy,
working together for quality- assurance and -improvement of HE in Germany and the the EHEA
Coordination Group of German Technical Universities
Technical and Scientific Associations + Professional Organizations
national bodies representing the faculties of engineering at German universities
Cooperation with the German student accreditation pool
Industrial Federations and Labour Unions
Coordination Group
of German Universities
of Applied Sciences
Hinweis auf Vortrag iw > europäische politische Rahmenbedigungen und Entwicklungen
ASIIN is member of:
ENQA, EQAR, CEENQA, EQANIE, ENAEE, ECTNA, INQAAAE, APQN
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

3. The European Higher Education Area:
Paris Bologna Prague
Berlin Bergen London Leuven 2009-Vienna 2010-Bukarest 2012
47 Signatory States (*since 2005)
Albania Kazakhstan
Andorra Latvia
*Armenia Liechtenstein
*Azerbaijan Lithuania
Austria Luxembourg
Belgium Malta
Bosnia - Herzegovina FYR of Macedonia
Bulgaria *Moldova
Croatia Netherlands
Cyprus Norway
Czech Republic Poland
Denmark Portugal
Estonia Romania
Finland Russia
France Serbia and Montenegro
*Georgia Slovak Republic
Germany Slovenia
Greece Spain
Holy See Sweden
Hungary Switzerland
Iceland Turkey
Ireland *Ukraine
Italy United Kingdom

4. Political Context of QA in Europe
Completion of the European Higher Education Area until 2010, in which citizens can choose from a wide and transparent order of high quality courses and benefit from smooth recognition procedures
Goals: European knowledge society characterized by high mobility and permeability, lifelong learning
Promotion of comparability and compatibility of degrees:
Two cycle study system, ECTS, adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, Diploma Supplement, permeability of study structures
Promotion of the European Dimension in Higher Education
Academic Mobility
Recognition of Degrees/Qualification Frameworks/European Learning Outcomes and Competence Profiles
Transnational Cooperation in QA/Mutual Recognition Agreements
Common European Market
Goals: freedom of movement of workers, right of establishment, freedom of services.
Declaration of Lisbon, Barcelona: „to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.“
The European Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications:
Goal: „A clear, secure and quick system for the recognition of qualifications in the field of the regulated professions is required to ensure free movement.“
The EC institutions and member states should facilitate employment and the provision of services through wholesale consolidation of the existing regimes of professional recognition in the regulated professions.
Professional Mobility
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

5. Main European Instruments for Quality Assurance
European Quality Assurance is based on
The European Qualification Frameworks (Bologna as well as Copenhagen OF, Dublin Descriptors)
European Standards and Guidelines,
European Code of Good Practice
European Register of QA/Accreditation Agencies
European Learning Outcomes/Competence Profiles on the Disciplinary Level
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Geschäftsführer ASIIN e.V.

6. The growing importance of the Learning Outcome Concept for European Mobility
The Leuven Communique in 2009:
”We reassert the importance of the teaching mission of higher education institutions and the necessity for ongoing curricular reform geared toward the development of learning outcomes... Academics in close cooperation with student and employer representatives, will continue to develop learning outcomes and international reference points for a growing number of subject areas…“
”It is arguably that the main end product of the Bologna reforms is better qualifications based on learning outcomes and certainly not just new educational structures. For this sort of bottom-up reform it is recognised that there is a need for fundamental changes at the institutional level where academics are responsible for creating and maintaining qualifications”. (Stephan Adam, UK Bologna Promoter)
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

7. The Organisational Structure of QA in Europe and Beyond
Global level
GGP
ESG Dublin Descriptors
Discipline LO
INQAAHE
Europe/Continental level
ENQA/ ECA
CEENQA
CANQA
Islamic Network …
APQN
Subject Specific/Professional level
ENAEE
EQANIE
AEC
ECTNA
EAPAA
The Tuning Association
The European Countries Biologists Association
IFA
EFG …
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

8. European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education
European Disciplinary Accreditation Networks: Pan European Definition of Learning Outcomes as Entry Route to the Profession
European Quality Labels
EQAS
Euro-Inf
Bachelor/Master
Eurobachelor
Euromaster
EUR-ACE
FC/SC
ISEKI Food
EQANIE
European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education
ECTNA
European Chemistry Thematic Network Association
ENAEE
European Network Accreditation Engineering Education
ASIIN/IFA have developed pan-European LO/QA structures in the field of food science
CEPIS, Informatics Europe, ASIIN + many European Informatics societies
More than 150 HEIs + chemical societies in Europe + ASIIN have developed LO for the European BA/MA in Chemistry
All European Engineering Accreditation Agencies + FEANI, SEFI etc. : LO for FCD and SCD

9. Best Practice in QA as defined by the European Commission
(to read): EU Commission Report from September 2009: The EUR-ACE label in engineering exists at the bachelor and master level. Standards were defined at European level, but are applied through national quality assurance agencies that are authorised to issue EUR-ACE “labels” together with their national accreditation. Several hundred labels have already been awarded, but they are still available from only seven national agencies.
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Geschäftsführer ASIIN e.V.

10. New European Developments in QA
ENAEE
EQANIE
AEC
ECTNA
EAPAA
The Tuning Association
The European Countries Biologists Association
IFA
EFG …
EASPA / European Alliance of Subject Specific Professional Accreditation and Quality Assurance
Am 29. November 2011 in Brüssel
Europe
United States
ASPA …
Other world regions
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

11. CEENQA Background
Oldest European Quality Assurance Network - Set up in 2000
legally registered as association in 2011
“The purpose of the Association is the cooperation between the member organizations in the development and harmonization of their activities in the field of quality assurance and quality improvement in higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, thereby making a contribution towards the development and implementation of the European Higher Education Area.” (Statutes)
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

12. CEENQA - 22 members in 15 countries
Albania
Austria ÖAR, FHR, AQA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Germany ACQUIN, ASIIN, FIBAA
Hungary
Latvia
North Cyprus
Poland UKA, PKA
Romania
Russia, NAA, NCPA, AKKORK
Slovakia
Slovenia
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

13. CEENQA - Activities
Providing information and “best practice” examples in quality assurance and quality development in higher education,
Launching or participating in projects for the sake of better quality in higher education,
Seeking possibilities for applying for funds to support projects,
Organizing events, seminars, workshops, and conferences in its field,
Exchanging quality experts among CEENQA members,
Maintaining relations with other European and non-European organizations, which are important in terms of the purpose of the Association,
Maintaining a website in order to inform about these activities.
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

14. ENQA at a glance
Founded in 2000 as a network and transformed into an association in 2004
Umbrella NGO for European QA agencies in HE
Membership:
41 Full members, 10 Candidate members
36 Affiliates (covers more than 40 countries)
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

15. ENQA and the Bologna process
Quality Assurance as one pillar of EHEA
Consultative member of the Bologna Follow-up Group
Main contributions:
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European higher Education Area (ESG), adopted in 2005
drafted by ENQA together with EUA, EURASHE and ESU (“E4”)
The “European Quality Assurance Register”, founded in 2008
Addressing relevant issues of quality assurance and feeding the results into discussions at the European level
Sharing good practice, fostering cooperation
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

16. ENQA - The European Standards and Guidelines
Main feature: ESG are “designed to be applicable to all higher education institutions and quality assurance agencies in Europe, irrespective of their structure, function and size, and the national system in which they are located”
ESG part I: Internal quality assurance
ESG part II: External quality assurance
ESG part III: Quality assurance agencies
ESG provide a “common understanding” of quality assurance in higher education
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

17. ENQA - Core aims of ESG part III and of ENQA membership criteria
Support development of professionally working, trustworthy and independent agencies, which share the same values and apply the same principles.
Create mutual trust in order to contribute to mutual recognition and to mobility.
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

18. ECA - Foundation and Aim
Established in November 2003 as project organisation
Consortium of national accreditation/QA agencies
17 member organisations from 11 European countries: all regions involved
Aims:
mutual recognition of accreditation and QA decisions
providing transparent information on quality
supporting internationalisation of institutions and students
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

19. ECA - Phases I and II ECA I ECA II ECA III Multilateral MR
Agreement on JPs
Bilateral MR
Agreements
Cooperation projects;
external reviews
New EU funded projects
TEAM
projects
Common tools/principles
Certificate
Internatio-
nalisation
E-TRAIN
Qross-
roads
JProgr.
Accred
JOQAR
Information exchange
2008
2010
2012
2004
2007
ECA I
ECA II
ECA III
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.

20. Lacking transparency on the job market
Professional Cards as an answer to impediments of professional mobility?
Lacking transparency on the job market
Different degrees and complicated acceptance procedures have hampered the change of employment in European Countries and between European Countries.
EU Mobility Regulation of 2005
The EU therefore demands the mutual acceptance of the competencies required to carry out a profession in order to eliminate impediment at the change of employment between individual member states in the long-term. 20 20

21. Objectives of the professional cards
Promotion of EU-wide mobility of professionals in accordance with the European Directive 2005/36/EG on the recognition of professional qualifications
Profile shaping and further development of the profession through orientation on European-wide standards
Strengthening the Euroepan professional communities through transparency of professional status, individual degrees and intensified identification 21 21

22. The example of the engineerING card
Given Name
Surname
Date and Place of Birth
4a Date of Issue
4b Date of Expiry
Member of Association/ Organisation
ID Number
Signature
Key for qualifications

23. engineerING card: Back
Academic Studies
Professional Experience
Continuing Education
Legend of classification of the front of the card

24. The Register Data Sheet Features all Important Details
Academic Studies
Professional Experience
Continuing Education
Personal Details 24 24

25. The Way Forward
Learning Outcomes/Competence Profiles will continue to be developed internationally/continental scale as a vehicle of academic and professional mobility:the founding of EASPA a crucial step forward
Development of measurable cross-national outcomes (The AHELO project) ; Institutionaliziation of international peer groups which visit institutions and programs in several countries at the same time to cross-examine the output of study programs
Development of international/joint degree programms; joint accreditation procedures for binational/joint degree programs
ESG revision must be supplemented by a drive towards Mutual Recognition Agreement
European Databases of Best Practices in QA will emerge
Stakeholder involvement must be intensified; Involvement of the Business Community is still one of the biggest challenges
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Geschäftsführer ASIIN e.V.

26. Contact Dr. Iring Wasser CEO of ASIIN INQAAHE Board Director
President of CEENQA
Vice-President of ENAEE
Chairman of the EUR-ACE Label Committee
Vice-President EQANIE
Mail:
Web:
phone: +49 (0)211 /
Dr. Iring Wasser,
Managing Director ASIIN e.V.