We are delighted to announce that ENQA has been awarded funding for five new projects, which will start later this year.
As a project coordinator, ENQA will launch a 3-year initiative titled Robust Quality Assurance of Transnational Education (ROQA-TNE) to support good practice and transparency in the quality assurance of transnational education. QAA (UK), ANVUR (Italy), and ACQUIN (Germany) are project partners and there will be opportunities for other ENQA members and affiliates to engage in project activities through participation in a working group that will update the 2015 QACHE toolkit and develop a self-assessment tool for agencies to use in reflecting and improving their own processes.
ENQA will also contribute as a partner to four further projects:
- Support for the enhancement-oriented implementation of the quality assurance key commitment (SIQA), through which ENQA will coordinate a working group on cross-border quality assurance and prepare thematic analyses on key issues for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This project is coordinated by ARACIS (Romania) and will support the work of the Bologna Thematic Peer Group on Quality Assurance.
- Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementation of Commitments in the EHEA (SPICE), in which ENQA will collaborate with the European University Association (EUA) to conduct a mapping and analysis of external and internal QA activities (as a follow-up to the QA-FIT project). This project is coordinated by the European Student Union (ESU).
- Digital Tools and Quality Assurance for Automatic Recognition (DIGI-REQA): This project aims to address gaps in implementation of automatic recognition, emphasising practical digital tools and links with quality assurance to support students, employers, and higher education institutions as the end users of automatic recognition. The project is coordinated by SKVC (Lithuania).
- Combatting Fraud through a Holistic Approach and Data Collection (Fraud-Act): This project aims to promote academic integrity and address fraud at the admission stage of higher education. ENQA will contribute to the project by exploring the role of quality assurance agencies in addressing this topic. The project is coordinated by CIMEA (Italy).
All projects are funded under the Erasmus+ programme and ENQA is grateful for the ongoing support of its work by the European Commission.