Past Events

In this webinar, members of the ENQA working group on the QA of research will share the final outcomes of their work, which investigated the topic of external quality assurance (EQA) of research in higher education institutions (HEIs).

This online meeting is exclusively for CEOs/Directors of ENQA member agencies. It provides an opportunity for high-level updates and conversations on topics of strategic importance to agencies and to ENQA.

Online CEO meetings usually take place twice year. Please contact the ENQA secretariat if you believe you are eligible to attend and have not received an invitation. In-person CEO meetings also take place twice a year, in conjunction with the Members’ Forum and General Assembly.

The ENQA Workshop on Staff Development for Quality Assurance Agencies will take place on 12 December 2024 in Brussels, Belgium in MAI (Maison des Associations Internationales), Rue Washington 40, 1040 Ixelles (Brussels).

The ENQA Seminar on the European dimension of Quality Assurance will take place on 11 December 2024 in Brussels, Belgium in Mundo Matongé, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles (Brussels).

The 2024 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will be hosted from 14 to 16 November by the University of Twente, Netherlands.

ENQA’s Targeted Reviews’ Follow-Up Seminar will be held online on 8 November 2024, 10.00-14.30 Brussels time.

To mark the end of the Quality Assurance Fit for the Future project (QA-FIT), the consortium will organise the final conference on Thursday 7 November in Brussels. The event will gather higher education stakeholders and policy-makers to discuss the current context for quality assurance of higher education and reflect on how the EHEA framework can evolve to remain responsive and relevant. Further information and invitations for the event will be sent out during the summer.

In this webinar, members of the ENQA working group on academic integrity shared the final outcomes of their work, which explored the role of quality assurance agencies in promoting and enhancing academic integrity. During the webinar, the highlights of the group’s report were presented, together with examples from ENQA members and recommendations for future action.

The 2024 General Assembly will take place on 24-25 October in St. Julian’s, Malta. The event is organised in cooperation with the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA). It will be preceded by a social programme taking place on 23 October.

ENQA Seminar for Panel Secretaries will take place online on 4 October at 9.30-13.15 CET. It is open by invitation only to current members of ENQA pool of reviewers, targeted to current and future secretaries of ENQA Agency Reviews.

ENQA is pleased to invite you to the ENQA Brussels Networking Reception, taking place on Thursday 12 September, 17.30-19.30, at the Maison des Associations Internationales (Rue Washington 40, 1050 Ixelles).

The consortium of the Quality Assurance Fit for the Future project (QA-FIT) organised the final webinar on Tuesday 10 September at 10.00-12.00 CEST. It provided an overview of the main project findings and the next steps for the revision of the ESG.

ENQA holds online CEO meetings twice a year to supplement the physical meetings that take place in conjunction with the Members’ Forum and General Assembly. The meeting is open exclusively to CEOs/Directors and equivalent of ENQA member agencies and is an opportunity for updates and discussion with the ENQA Board on issues of strategic importance for quality assurance agencies.

Invitations have been sent by email. If you are a head of ENQA Member agency and have not received your invitation, please contact the Secretariat for assistance.

ENQA will organise a Focus Group as part of the QA-FIT project consultations with higher education stakeholders. It will draw on the work of the project, which has identified differing stakeholder views around the scope and level of detail required from a European framework for quality assurance. Participants will debate some of the fundamental questions underpinning the future development of the ESG, as well as explore some specific standards of Parts 2 and 3 that could benefit from revision.

The webinar explored the key QA-FIT project findings related to two topics: the scope of the ESG and flexibility of external quality assurance approaches. It provided an opportunity to explore perspectives and implications of these issues for the future activities of quality assurance agencies.

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 taking place on 17 April.

There are various models of cooperation between quality assurance agencies and ENIC-NARIC centres. This webinar will explore various approaches by presenting three different cases and discussing the particularities, advantages and challenges of each one. In addition, the event will explore the possible opportunities for enhancing cooperation, communication and information exchange. This webinar is co-organised by ENQA and the ENIC-NARIC network.

In anticipation of the Bologna Process Ministerial conference taking place in May in Tirana, ENQA organises this webinar to explore the status quo of the Bologna commitments related to quality assurance.

ENQA holds online CEO meetings twice a year to supplement the physical meetings that take place in conjunction with the Members’ Forum and General Assembly. The meeting is open exclusively to CEOs/Directors and equivalent of ENQA member agencies and is an opportunity for updates and discussion with the ENQA Board on issues of strategic importance for quality assurance agencies.

Further details will be communicated nearer the date of the meeting.

The 2023 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will be hosted from 23 to 25 November by University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The Forum, entitled “Internationalisation in a changing world. New trends and challenges for QA”, will combine sessions about policies and trends, research, and practical case examples related to the Forum theme and more generally about current developments in quality assurance.

More information about the programme and registrations is available here.

The 2023 ENQA General Assembly will take place on 25-27 October in Dublin, Ireland. The event will be organised in cooperation with the Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI).

ENQA’s 2023 Experienced Reviewers’ Seminar will take place in Barcelona, 7-8 September, and will be hosted by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya).

The 15th ENQA Training of Agency Reviewers will take place online on 15-16 May 2023. The training is open only to nominated experts and the nominees selected to participate in this training event are contacted individually.

The 2023 Members’ Forum  will take place on 20-21 April in Georgia. The event will be hosted by the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE). A social programme is planned for 19 April.

This webinar explored the topic of external quality assurance of EQF level 5 courses offered as higher vocational education and training or short cycle higher education. The increased focus on flexible learning pathways, investment in skills and permeability between education sectors, in conjunction with international student mobility, makes a shared understanding of QA approaches to EQF level 5 qualifications all the more important.

ENQA is pleased to invite you to the ENQA Brussels Networking Reception, taking place on Thursday 9 March, 17.30-19.30, at the Fondation Universitaire (Rue d’Egmont 11).

ENQA and EQAR organise a meeting of ministry and QA agency representatives with responsibility for higher education in the Western Balkans on the Bologna Process key commitment on quality assurance. This invitation-only meeting will take place on 8-9 March.

ENQA is pleased to invite you to an online meeting for CEOs/Directors of ENQA member agencies. The meeting will take place on Thursday 9 February at 10.00-11.00 CET.

In view of the upcoming conclusion of the SEQA-ESG project, ENQA is pleased to announce the closing webinar “Overcoming obstacles in reaching compliance with the ESG: lessons learnt from the SEQA-ESG project”. This webinar will take place on Wednesday 23 November 2022 at 10.00-12.30 CET

The 2022 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will be hosted from 17 to 19 November by West University of Timisoara, Romania.

The 2022 ENQA General Assembly took place on 26-28 October in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was organised in cooperation with the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) and was held at the Karolinska Institutet, located at Solnavägen 9, Solna/Stockholm (building: Biomedicum).

This ENQA online event will explore existing and prospective practices for external quality assurance of micro-credentials a variety of contexts across the European Higher Education Area. The event is based on the outcomes of the ENQA working group on micro-credentials, which has been exploring the topic in detail over the past year.

The 2022 ENQA Members’ Forum will take place on 22-24 June 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. It will be hosted by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).

ENQA’s seminar for agencies planning to undergo a review in 2022-2023 will take place 31 May to 1 June 2022 in Cologne, Germany.

ENQA’s third Seminar for Recently Reviewed Agencies will take place on 30-31 May 2022 in Cologne, Germany.

The third seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2021-22 will take place on 18-20 May 2022 in Zagreb, Croatia.

The 14th ENQA Training of Agency Reviewers will take place online on 9-10 May 2022.

The next ENQA’s General Assembly meeting will take place online on Thursday 28 April from 9:30-12:30 CEST.

The second seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2021-22 will take place on 2-4 March 2022 online.

The Reviewers’ Seminar on ENQA Targeted Reviews will take place online on 9 December 2021 at 10.00-12.00 CET.

The 2021 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will take place online on 18 and 19 November.

In 2021 ENQA updated its Guidelines for ENQA Agency Reviews and launched targeted reviews. During this webinar ENQA presented the key changes to the guidelines and the new methodology for targeted reviews.

In this webinar, participants heard a range of short inputs from selected ENQA members and affiliates about new developments in their agencies or systems. These focused on significant changes in approaches to external quality assurance or innovations in specific aspects of their work.

This webinar explored how external quality assurance can respond to some of the lasting changes on higher education caused by Covid-19.

ENQA’s autumn General Assembly meeting took place online on Thursday 21 October, from 9:30-12:30 CEST.

Due to the postponement of the ENQA Leadership Development Programme seminars caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, an extra midterm seminar has been organised for the LDP participants.

The webinar is open to ENQA member and EQAR-registered agencies wishing to renew their membership or registration with an expected site visit in 2022 (or very early 2023), and who have been through at least two full ESG reviews.

The first seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2020-21, hosted by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), took place online on 2-4 June 2021.

A year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe, many quality assurance agencies have gathered significant experience of moving their external quality assurance activities online. ENQA’s call for contributions to share experiences of conducting external quality assurance in an online format received a high number of interesting submissions. Therefore, we decided to run a second webinar on the same topic, in order to provide a further opportunity for members and affiliates to learn from each other.

On 23 April 2021 from 10-11:45 CEST, ENQA hosted a webinar on “Stakeholder involvement in external quality assurance” as a part of it’s online ENQA Members’ Forum programme. This webinar explored how quality assurance agencies can effectively involve external stakeholders in their work.

ENQA’s spring General Assembly meeting took place online on Thursday 22 April.

A year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe, many quality assurance agencies have gathered significant experience of moving their external quality assurance activities online. On Wednesday 21 April from 10-11:30 CEST, ENQA organised a webinar in which agencies can share the lessons learnt from the past year.

On 18 March from 10:30-12:00 Brussels time, ENQA co-hosted a webinar with QAA on academic integrity and the role QA agencies can play in it.

On Wednesday 10 March 2021 at 10:00, ENQA held an extraordinary General Assembly to approve of the new Statutes and Rules of Procedure.

The webinar “Outcomes of the EUniQ Pilots and Implications for the Framework for QA of European Universities” –  took place on Tuesday, 9 March 2021 from 9:30 to 12:30 (CET).

ENQA hosted a webinar on “Micro-credentials and the role of external quality assurance” on Thursday, 25 February 2021 from 10-11AM CET.

ENQA held an extraordinary General Assembly on 11 February 2020.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 13th ENQA Training of Agency Reviewers took place online on 9-10 February 2021.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 4th ENQA Reviewers’ Seminar took place online on 8-9 February 2021.

The final conference of the “Facilitating implementation of the European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes” (ImpEA) project will take place online on 17 December from 12:00-15:00 CET. 

ACPUA is pleased to announce its first training webinar for future reviewers of its new ALCAEUS Program.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 European Quality Assurance Forum will be organised in the form of online sessions. This decision was taken with the health and safety of all participants in mind.

On 23 October 2020, 10-11:30 CEST, ENQA will host a webinar on use of indicators in higher education and specifically quality assurance. Participants will hear the main findings of a study conducted by the European University Association (EUA) which looked at how indicators are used in rankings, external quality assurance, and funding formulae.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ENQA General Assembly was hosted online on 22 October 2020 from 14:00-16:30 CEST (Brussels time).

On 21 October 2020 from 10-11:30 CEST, ENQA hosted a webinar providing an update on the Bologna Process. This webinar was exclusively open to representatives from ENQA Members and Affiliates as a part of the online ENQA General Assembly programme.

The ENQA affiliate HKCAAVQ will host its International Conference 2020, themed “From Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement and Excellence”, in a hybrid setting on 15 September 2020 from 09:00am – 4:45pm Hong Kong time.

Following the introduction of lockdown measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, ENQA is offering a webinar that explores conditions and criteria related to online implementation of site visits and what challenges EQA is facing in this regard.

To support an open dialogue within its membership, ENQA offered a webinar aimed at CEOs of member and affiliate agencies to explore the strategic aspects of how to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ENQA is pleased to launch its first webinar of 2020, which will discuss the outcomes of the “Trust-based Authentication and Authorship e-assessment analysis (TeSLA)” project.

The 10th ENQA Members’ Forum was cancelled and replaced by an online General Assembly meeting on 29 April 2020.

The third seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2019, hosted by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), took place on 4-6 March 2020 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

The second seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2019, hosted by the Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS), took place on 11-13 December 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.

The final webinar of 2019 explored the topic “How to prepare a good self-assessment report for an ENQA Agency Review.”

EQAF 2019, organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and hosted by TU (Technische Universität Berlin), took place on 21-23 November 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

The first seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme 2019, hosted by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ Austria), will take place on 21-23 October 2019 Vienna, Austria.

The 10th ENQA General Assembly, hosted by ANQA, took place on 17-18 October 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia.

EURASHE together with ENQA, the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN), and University of Groningen organise – in the framework of the WEXHE project – a consultative workshop on Work-Based Learning and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education on 9 October, in Brussels, Belgium.

The second ENQA Seminar for Recently Reviewed Agencies took place on 1-2 October 2019 in Porto, Portugal. The seminar was organised by ENQA and hosted by the Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES).

EUA, EQAR and ENQA are cohosting a webinar on the DEQAR project on 27 June at 14:00 CET. The webinar is titled “Plugging the information gap – facilitating recognition through access to external quality assurance results.”

The second ENQA webinar discussed subject-specific approaches. The webinar took place on Friday, 14 June 2019 from 11:00-12:00 CET.

LIREQA project is organising a conference on linkages between academic recognition and quality assurance in Vilnius, Lithuania on 22 May 2019.

The 9th ENQA Members’ Forum, hosted by the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA), will take place on 25-26 April 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia.

After popular demand, ENQA is pleased to launch the our webinar series over the course of 2019 which will present an interesting collection of QA topics.

ENQA Workshop on QA of Student-Centred Learning, hosted by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), took place on 10-11 December in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

The 13th European Quality Assurance Forum, organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and hosted by WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and AQ Austria, took place on 15-17 November 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

The third seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme, hosted by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya) in Barcelona, took place on 6-8 November 2018.

The 9th ENQA General Assembly took place on 18-19 October 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The event was organised in cooperation with the Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA)

The ENQA seminar for agencies preparing to undergo an initial external review, hosted by the Academic Information Centre (AIC), will take place on 27-28 September 2018 in Riga, Latvia.

ENQA and EADTU organised a webinar on quality assurance in blended and online education on 19 September 2018 at 13.30 – 15.00 (CEST).

The second seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme, hosted by the Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance (AAQ), will take place on 10-12 September 2018.

Brussels-area colleagues working in the field of higher education were invited for drinks, discussion, and networking.

ENQA organised a seminar on the European dimension of quality assurance, taking place on 14-15 June 2018 at the University Foundation.

The ENQA Agency Reviews: Training of Reviewers took place on 31 May – 1 June 2018 in Madrid, Spain. The training session was organised by ENQA and hosted by the Madrimasd Knowledge Foundation (FMID).

The ENQA Agency Reviews: Training of Reviewers took place on 31 May – 1 June 2018 in Madrid, Spain. The training session was organised by ENQA and hosted by the Madrimasd Knowledge Foundation (FMID).

The first seminar of the ENQA Leadership programme, hosted by the Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (AEQES), took place on 16-18 May 2018 at the Académie de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (ARES), located at Rue Royale 180, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

The 2018 ENQA Members’ Forum, hosted by the Aragon Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ACPUA), took place on 19-20 April 2018 in Zaragoza, Spain.

HKCAAVQ is offering a 5-day workshop to provide a systematic integration of the ‘know-how’ and ‘know-why’ of quality assurance, within the context of outcome-based education and qualifications frameworks.

The EQUIP project consortium presented in a webinar the outcomes of the EQUIP project ‘Enhancing quality through innovative policy & practice’. The webinar took place on Wednesday 28 February at 14.00-15.00 CET.

The 12th European Quality Assurance Forum, organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and hosted by the University of Latvia, took place on 23-25 November 2017 in Riga, Latvia.

The third ENQA Reviewers’ Seminar took place on 20-21 November 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The seminar was organised by ENQA and hosted by the Flemish Council of Universities and University Colleges – Quality Assurance Unit (VLUHR – QAU).

The 8th ENQA General Assembly took place in Sèvres, France, on 26-27 October 2017, hosted by the Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques (CIEP).

The first ENQA Seminar for Recently Reviewed Agencies took place on 12-13 October 2017 in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Brussels-area colleagues working in the field of higher education were invited for drinks, discussion, and networking in June.

The seminar on the European dimension of quality assurance took place in Brussels at the International Associations Centre on 15-16 June 2017.

QAA’s seventh International Quality Assurance Programme (IQAP) will be held at QAA’s headquarters in Gloucester 5 – 9 June 2017.

The 8th ENQA Training of Agency Reviewers took place on 13-14 May 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. The training session was organised by ENQA and hosted by the the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC).