Organization
Short history
In 1995 the Hungarian Accreditation Committee convened a “Regional Meeting of Accreditation Bodies in CEE Countries for a two-day meeting”. In 2000, representatives responsible for quality assurance in Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia met in Budapest with the goal to form the CEE Network as a sub-network under the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies. Meeting in Krakow in 2001, the CEE Network was founded and statutes were adopted by the initial 13 members. The meeting adopted the network’s first regulations that went into force in 2002. In 2011, the CEE Network took the acronym CEENQA, when it was registered as an Association in Düsseldorf, Germany.
CEENQA entities
General Assembly
The General Assembly is the highest decision-making and supervisory organ of the Association and consists of representatives of the members. The functions of the General Assembly are:
- to elect the members of the Executive Board,
- to elect the President and Vice President from among the members of the Executive Board members,
- to elect the Treasurer from among the Executive Board members,
- to consider the recommendations of the Executive Board concerning new membership applications and to decide upon admissions,
- to consider the recommendations of the Executive Board regarding the exclusion of members and to make decisions to that effect,
- to discuss and confirm the work programme of the Association, following preparation of the programme by the Executive Board,
- to vote on the financial statements for the financial year, the financial budget for the next year and the membership fees,
- to discuss and adopt the procedures for internal audits,
- to elect the internal auditors,
- to decide on other issues on the proposal of the Executive Board or one or more members.
Executive Board
Vesna Dodiković-Jurković, ASHE (Croatia)
President
CEENQA President since 2024 and Board member since 2022. Assistant Director for Quality Assurance at the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE).
Diane Freiberger, FIBAA (Germany)
Vice - president
CEENQA Vice-President since 2024 and Board member since 2023. Managing Director of the international quality assurance agency FIBAA based in Germany.
Péter Levente Lakatos, MAB (Hungary)
Treasurer, Executive Board Member
CEENQA Board member since 2022. Director of International Affairs at the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) based in Budapest, Hungary.
Simona Lache, ARACIS (Romania)
Executive Board Member
CEENQA Board member since 2021. Director of the Accreditation Department of the Romanian Agency of Quality assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) and professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.
Benjamin Muhamedbegović, HEA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Executive Board Member
CEENQA Board member since 2021. Assistant Director for Quality Assurance in the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HEA BiH)
Hasan Ali Bicak, STAR (Turkey)
Executive Board Member
CEENQA Board member since 2024. Chair of the Internationalization Committee of Social, Humanities and Basic Sciences Accreditation and Rating Association (STAR) in Turkey.
Lasha Margishvili, NCEQE (Georgia)
Executive Board Member
CEENQA Board member since 2025. Deputy Director at National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement.
Secretary-General
Nataša Kramar
Secretary-General
Nataša Kramar is deputy head of the Department for quality assurance and international cooperation at the Slovenian QA agency NAKVIS.
Jan Philipp Engelmann
Secretary-General
Jan Philipp Engelmann works as a quality assurance and enhancement officer at the University of Münster, Germany.