17 April 2024-19 April 2024 00:00
The 2024 Members’ Forum took place on 18-19 April in Hanover, Germany. The event was organised in cooperation with the Central Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation (ZEvA) and was held at the Hochschule Hannover, Campus Linden, located at Ricklinger Stadtweg 118/120, 30459 Hannover, Germany. It was preceded by a social programme on 17 April.
Programme
The Members’ Forum programme addressed the topic of ‘Quality Assurance and Change’, through plenary sessions and contributions from members and affiliates. Breakout sessions provided an opportunity for updates and discussion on ENQA activities and current developments in European quality assurance.
The programme is available here.
The file with the poster sessions abstracts can be consulted here.
Practical information and social programme
Full details of the social programme offered by ZEvA and practical information about the event (including venue and hotels) are available here.
Materials
The list of participants can be consulted here.
Presentations and posters from the event are available below:
Introduction to the German QA system
- Introducing the German accreditation system, by Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Bargstädt, GAC Chairman
- The Role of Agencies in the German Accreditation System, by Henning Schäfer, ZEvA Managing Director
Plenary 1
Time: the neglected dimension of quality assurance
- Quality on a schedule? The complicated relationship between QA and time, by Oliver Vettori, Dean for Accreditation and Quality Management / Director of Programme Management & Teaching and Learning, Vienna University of Economics and Business,
- Time and quality, by Heli Mattisen, HAKA Director
Breakout sessions
Quality assurance of transnational education
- Protecting the interests of students on transnational education programmes:
the role of transparent quality assurance, by Anna Gover, ENQA Director and Douglas Blackstock, ENQA President - Quality assurance and enhancement of trans-national education: the QAA experience, by Vicki Stott, QAA Chief Executive and Eduardo Ramos, QAA Director of International and Professional Services
Agency approaches to follow-up and appeals/complaints
- What comes after the publication of reports? – An analysis of Approaches To Follow-Up (Esg 2.3) And Complaints And Appeals (Esg 2.7). Main findings, by Patrick Van den Bosch, ENQA Board member, Péter Levente Lakatos, ENQA Board member, Alexis Fábregas Almirall, ENQA Project and Reviews Officer and Milja Homan, ENQA Project and Reviews Officer
Ongoing developments on QA of micro-credentials:
- Micro-credentials and alternative providers in DEQAR and quality labels, by Aleksandra Zhivkovikj, Policy and Project officer, EQAR and Giorgi Munjishvili, Policy and Project officer, EQAR
- QA of Micro-credentials. Outcomes of the ENQA WG and IMINQA Project, by Elena Cirlan, ENQA Senior Policy and Project Coordinator
Plenary 2
Quality assurance policy developments in the EHEA and EU
- Update on the Bologna Process, by Anna Gover, ENQA Director
- 2024 European Degree Package. Communication on a blueprint for a European Degree. Proposal for a Council Recommendation on a European Quality Assurance and Recognition System in higher education, by Julie Anderson, European Commission Policy Officer, DG EAC
Poster sessions
AHPGS, Germany
NCEQE, Georgia
NAQA, Ukraine
NVAO, Flanders
AIC/AIKA, Latvia
ACQUIN, Germany and KAA, Kosovo
ANVUR, Italy
RCVS, the UK
UKÄ, Sweden
SAAHE, Slovakia
NOKUT, Norway
NEAA, Bulgaria
Plenary 3
Artificial Intelligence: hero or villain for QA?
- AI in QA in HE, by Bryan Maguire, Director of Integration, QQI
- Impact of Institutional Accreditation on Armenian HEIs: An AI-Assisted Analysis from 2011 to 2023, by Ruben Topchyan, ANQA Director and Varduhi Gyulazyan, ANQA Head of Institutional and Programme Accreditation Division
- Discussion part, by Anne Klaas Schilder, Policy Advisor, NVAO