2026 ENQA Members’ Forum, 22-24 April, Budapest, Hungary

The 2026 Members’ Forum took place on 22-24 April in Budapest, Hungary. This event was organised in cooperation with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) and was held at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, located at Magyar Tudósok Körútja 2, 1117, Budapest.

Programme

The theme of this year’s forum, “Strengthening trust in an evolving higher education landscape”, emphasises that quality assurance agencies play an important role in strengthening trust in higher education by promoting continuous improvement, providing reliable information and analysis, and fostering stakeholder dialogue. The draft programme for the event is available here.

Practical information

Practical information about the event is available here.

The list of recommended hotels can be found here.

Delegates are encouraged to book their accommodation at the Radisson Hotel, the closest hotel to the venue, where the Gala Dinner will also take place. Information on how to use the booking code (valid for stays from 21 to 25 April) is available here.

Materials

The list of participants can be consulted here.

Abstracts for the Thematic Poster Sessions can be found here.

Presentations from the event are available below:

Plenary sessions:

Plenary 1 – Building trust together, by Harry de Boer, Senior researcher, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente (Netherlands)

Plenary 2 – Robust European policies as a basis for trust, by Anna Gover, Director, ENQA, and Elena Cirlan, Senior Policy and Project Coordinator, ENQA

Plenary 3 – Advancing integrity: overcoming fraud and degree mills

• Catherine Dolgova-Dreyer, Head of the Higher and Further Education Unit, Council of Europe
• Chiara Finocchietti, President, ENIC Network
• Mary Grennan, Head of International education division, QQI (Ireland)

Breakout sessions:

Trust, transparency and good conduct in CBQA, by Anna Gover, ENQA Director, Ronny Heintze, Deputy Director for International Development, AQAS (Germany) and Varduhi Gyulazyan, Head of the Institutional and Programme Accreditation Division, ANQA (Armenia)

ENQA Agency Review Committee and EQAR joint session, by Aleksandar Susnjar, Director, EQAR, Eva Jaroszewski, Chair, ENQA Agency Review Committee, Goran Dakovic, Head of Agency Reviews, ENQA

ESG and EA as a fundamental basis for trust, by Cristina Ghițulică, President, ENQA, Doris Herrmann, Board Member, ENQA

Poster sessions:

AAQ, Switzerland & GAC, Germany

ACQUIN, Germany

ANACEC, Moldova

ANVUR, Italy

AQUA, Andorra

ARACIS, Romania

AVAP, Spain

FIGURE, European

HAKA, Estonia

Madri+d, Spain

NCEQE, Georgia

NEAQA, Serbia

NOKUT, Norway

PKA, Poland

SQAA, Slovenia

TKTA, Azerbaijan

You can find the promotional video for the 2026 ENQA Members’ Forum, provided by MAB, here.