Accreditation Seals in Programme Accreditation

In the course of an ASIIN programme accreditation procedure several quality seals may be acquired for an individual degree programme upon positive completion of the procedure.

ASIIN seal

The ASIIN seal for degree programmes is subject-based and comprises engineering and technology, natural sciences as well as their interdisciplinary variants. It is based on learning outcomes and takes into account the relevance of academic education for jobs in the fields of engineering and natural sciences. It can be awarded regardless of the state the HEI is located in.

You are welcome to use the ASIIN seal for publications of your ASIIN accredited degree programmes. Please contact our ASIIN procedure managers. They will provide you with the seal in different formats.

National particularities

In the area covered by the German Accreditation Council, ASIIN e. V. is authorized to award the seal of the Council in accordance with the valid provisions for the realisation of accreditations.
If ASIIN e. V. conducts procedures outside of Germany, it may award additional seals upon positive decision by the ASIIN Accreditation Commission for Degree Programmes, depending on the provisions, legal basis and authority in the country in question. For Switzerland and The Netherlands for instance, the national accreditation system provides for preliminary work up to the recommendation to be carried out by an agency such as ASIIN e. V. The final accreditation decision however, is carried out by state authorities.

Subject-related labels

Within an ASIIN programme accreditation procedure, it is possible to acquire specific quality seals (labels) for certain subjects in addition to the ASIIN seal. Typcially ASIIN is authorised by a European or international association/network to award such a subject-related quality seal in the course of the procedure, provided that relevant requirements are met.

Currently, the following additional subject-related quality seals may be applied for with ASIIN:

EUR-ACE^® label for the area of engineering
Eurobachelor^®/Euromaster^® label for the area of chemistry
Euro-Inf^® label for the area of informatics/computer science.

These European subject-related labels can only be acquired together with the ASIIN seal. The specialist subject requirements are included in the relevant Subject-Specific Criteria of ASIIN.