News and Events

The new issue of the ASIIN Newsletter has just been published and may be downloaded here. We will mail out the printed version in a few days.

On the 29^th of November 2011, the European Alliance for Subject Specific and Professional Accreditation and Quality Assurance (EASPA) was founded in the premises of ASIIN in Düsseldorf, Germany. EASPA constitutes a pan-European platform for a considerable and growing number of subject-specific, disciplinary organized European accreditation and quality assurance networks, which are jointly working towards enhancing the quality of degree programmes, institutions or individual qualifications on the basis of agreed European learning outcomes, competence profiles and qualification frameworks while respecting the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG). By working and collaborating jointly in this field, EASPA makes an important contribution to fostering academic and professional mobility in the European Higher Education Area and beyond.

Registration will be free for the upcoming event organized by EQANIE and partners on 22-23 September 2011 at Lake Como, Italy. Quality assessment of education at the level of disciplines plays a strong role for academic and professional mobility in the EHEA and the comparability and relevance of qualifications. Field-specific QA-networks have gained continuously importance over the recent years. Labels such as the EUR-ACE Label for the field of engineering or the Eurobachelor/Euromaster Label in the field of chemistry have been operating with great success for some time now.

On the 28th of May 2011, altogether 18 quality assurance agencies from 15 countries met at the University of Split and founded the so called “Central and Eastern Network of Quality Assurance in Higher Education” (CEENQA e.V).

The project led by ASIIN Consult for the development of a Europe-wide subject-related qualification framework in the area of geology has reached the concluding stage. Since the beginning of the second half of the project in March 2010, the learning outcomes developed have been accorded Europe-wide with relevant stakeholder groups and reviewed and optimised by means of test accreditations at selected European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

The European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education (EQANIE), founded and assisted by ASIIN, invites you to the workshop “Quality Assurance for Study Programmes in Informatics – Perspectives and Opportunities” in Prague on 11 October 2010.

ASIIN invites you to the traditional ASIIN Annual Conference in Frankfurt am Main on 11 and 12 November 2010. The Conference will focus on the results of the Bologna Process and of the accreditation and quality assurance practice of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

External evaluation and accreditation of degree programmes is one means of quality assurance that is widely accepted internationally. While in most cases the focus on external quality assurance is a national one, several pan-European networks have been implemented in the past few years that are intending to support the Bologna process from a truly European point of view.

The ASIIN office has a new phone number. You can reach us by phone at +49 211 900977-0 and by fax at +49 211 900977-99. Please refer to our Staff website for the extensions of our staff members.