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European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education

Acronym: EQAR

General Information

Identification Code: 672204711627-29
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Entity Form: International Non-Profit Association (AISBL/IVZW)
Registration Category: Other organisations, public or mixed entities
Registration Date: 8/12/2013
Last Update: 4/21/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: EQAR’s vision is a coherent quality assurance framework for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in which higher education institutions have the freedom to turn to a suitable EQAR-registered agency for their external quality assurance reviews, and in which qualifications are thus universally recognised. EQAR’s mission is to further the development of the EHEA by increasing the transparency of quality assurance, and thus enhancing trust and confidence in European higher education. To achieve its mission EQAR manages a register of quality assurance agencies operating in Europe that substantially comply with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) and a Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR), listing higher education institutions and programmes that were quality assured by those agencies.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Digital economy and society
  • Education and training
  • Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: - EU contribution to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) - European Education Area: automatic recognition, European Universities initiative, micro-credentials, European Degree, etc. - Digitalisation in higher education - Erasmus+ Programme, especially joint degrees - Joint European Degree - European Higher Education Sector Observatory
Communication Activities: In 2018, EQAR launched the Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR). The database enables a broad range of users to satisfy their information needs and support different types of decisions (e.g. recognition of degrees, mobility of students, portability of grants/loans). Through this database EQAR contribute to the transparency of external quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Currently the Europeans Digital Credential Initiative In 2022, EQAR concluded the Erasmus+-funded DEQAR CONNECT project. The project expanded DEQAR's coverage to countries currently under-represented and explored possible synergies and new opportunities to use DEQAR data directly in the recognition workflow (with ENIC-NARICs) and digital credentialing (European Digital Credentials for Learning - EDC - and European Blockchain Services Infrastructure - EBSI). EQAR has also been a part of the Early Adopters Programme of EBSI. Currently, EQAR is supporting the European Digital Credentials Initiative (EDCI) through exporting data from DEQAR in the qualifications' dataset (QDR). EQAR also collaborates with the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). DEQAR data is used in verifying the information on institutional and programme accreditations. EQAR also has a collaboration with the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER). ETER provides the number of external quality assurance procedures (excluding those with negative decisions) recorded in DEQAR for each reference year, distinguishing between institutional evaluation, program evaluation at different ISCED level, joint program evaluation and cross-border evaluation. Other projects and policy initiatives to which EQAR has contributed recently and currently: - Automatic recognition (EU Council Recommendation, 2019) - Micro-credentials (EU consultation group, 2020 & Microbol project, associate partner, 2020/21) - European Approach for QA of Joint Programmes - Projects under the EHEA Thematic Peer Groups on Quality Assurance and Recognition: * Implementation and Innovation in QA through peer learning (IMINQA) * TPG-LRC Constructing Recognition in the EHEA (TPG-LRC CoRE) * Quality Assurance Fit for the Future (QA-FIT)
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Working Group on Higher Education#E03799#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3799 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Nijverheidsstraat 10 Rue de l’Industrie
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Nijverheidsstraat 10 Rue de l’Industrie
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: Final figures for 2023 will be available after the General Assembly in April 2024.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 4
Members F T E: 3.75
Info Members: Persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register: Stephane Lauwick - President Annelies Traas - Acting Head of the Secretariat Aleksandra Zhivkovikj - Policy and Project Officer Blazhe Todorovski - Policy and Project Officer Pooja Venkatesh - Project Reporting & Finance Officer

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.eqar.eu/about/eqar-structure/members/
Organisation Members: Federation of European and International Associations established in Belgium (FAIB)