2012

MAP-ESG launch conference in Copenhagen

The launch conference of the report Mapping the implementation and application of the ESG in the EHEA presented the findings of the mapping exercise which took place in the course of 2010/2011 by the project partners EURASHE, EUA, ENQA and ESU, and discussed the recommendations to the Bologna Process ministerial conference 2012 on further development of the ESG.

This conference has been organised by ENQA, in collaboration with the EUA, EURASHE and ESU. It gathered around 150 participants, including the members of the Bologna Follow-Up Group, representatives of ministries, national rectors’ conferences, student organisations, quality assurance agencies, employers, and higher education institutions.

Download the the agenda.

Download the final report of the project.

Download the attendance list.

Download the report of the Conference (drafted by Dries Froyen, VLHORA).

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2011 

The European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF)

The EQAF, an annual event co-organised by EUA, ENQA, EURASHE and ESU and supported by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, is the main European conference on quality assurance in higher education, which brings together all key stakeholders in this field, such as higher education institutions, quality assurance agencies and students.

2011: The sixth European Quality Assurance Forum, entitled “Quality and Trust: at the heart of what we do”, was jointly hosted by the University of Antwerp and Artesis University College (a member of EURASHE) on 17-19th November 2011, and took place in Antwerp, Belgium. Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, EQAF 2011 aimed at exploring the impact and essence of both internal and external QA, and how QA could be further developed to serve these better.

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EquNet project

The followings are the events in which EURASHE participated in the framework of the EquNet project:

Conference on the Future of Social Dimension in Higher Education

The EquNet 2nd Conference on the Future of Social Dimension in Higher Education was held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 8-9th November 2011, in the cooperation with ESU. The objectives of the seminar are:

- to present and discuss outcomes of EquNet project and agree on the steps forward;

- to bring together relevant stakeholders from the European level, both from organisational level and institutions;

- to discuss challenges and approaches towards widening access to HE to all groups;

- to raise awareness on the barriers to reaching equal access and success and find solutions to addressing these barriers on various levels and working with different target groups;

- to share good practices and success stories.

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CARIBERASMUS

The project is now in its second phase during which the integration seminars are being organized.

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The impact of LLL strategies on professional higher education (FLLLEX)

The FLLLEX project aims at identifying challenges and implications of Life-Long Learning (LLL) incorporation into European Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s). To achieve the goals, the project is run by the partners over nine work packages. It started in January 2010 with collection of the information on European and national/regional LLL policies (WP1) and continued through investigations of the expectations of important stakeholders in LLL: the learners (WP2), the businesses (WP3) and the LLL providers (WP4).

The Work Package 5 meeting took place at EURASHE on August,27 2010 and gathered the leaders of the FLLLEX project.

On September, 27 the Work Package 5 leaders focused their attention on a preparation of a self-assessment tool based on the crucial indicators for LLL. The partners under an expert guidance of Klaas Vansteenhuyse held an efficient discussion on a self-assessment tool that shall be used by individual HEIs to assess their match to the expectations of the different stakeholders (according to policy, learner’s needs, curricular aspects) as to LLL (WP6).

Furthermore, the outcomes of such assessment shall be reviewed by an expert panel review with the ultimate goal of providing benchmarks for individual institutions against the respective national policies and with the other participating European institutions (WP7).

Finally the HEI SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL and its guidelines, alongside with the ‘road-show’ package (train-the-trainer) will be presented at the final dissemination event (WP8) to a large public. 

Learn more on  the FLLLEX webpage.

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CELAN project

The followings are the events in which EURASHE participated in the framework of the CELAN project:

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2010

EURASHE has contributed to POLICY SEMINAR ON POST- SECONDARY VET in TURKEY, Ankara, 1-2 March 2010 and Mutual Learning Project (Community of Practice for Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training): Challenges and options for the development of “Level 5 education”, Ankara 3 – 5 March, 2010.
Both the events were organized by ETF (European Training Foundation)

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2008

Eurashe Seminar in Kyrgyzstan

Under the Tempus programme, EURASHE organised on the 26th May 2008 in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) a Eurasian Seminar titled “Institutional QA in line with European Standards and Guidelines for QA ”. This event was the result of the cooperation with the Kazakh-British Technical University (Kazakhstan) and the Robert Gordon University (Scotland), hosted by the International University of Kyrgyzstan. During the seminar the Tempus SCM project “Promoting the External Dimension of the Bologna Process was presented : QA in a National and Transnational Context”.

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 2007

Eurasian Symposium on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Almaty (Kazakhstan), 22-24 October

EURASHE organised in co-operation with the Kazakh-British Technical University (Kazakhstan) and the Robert Gordon University (Scotland) a Eurasian Symposium on “Quality Assurance in Higher Education” as part of the Tempus SCM Project entitled “Promoting the External Dimension of the Bologna Process: QA in a National and Transnational Context”. The Symposium took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on the 22nd – 24th of October 2007.

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SEPHE Seminar on “Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Professional Higher Education”, Nicosia (CY)