CEENQA General Assembly and Workshop 2019


The annual meetings of CEENQA were held this year on 17-18 May 2019 in Kyrenia at Cratos Premium Hotel & Spa.

The North Cyprus Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council (YÖDAK) generously hosted the event. On Friday evening, the participants had a fine dinner at the Hotel with live music. On Saturday afternoon, following the General Assembly and lunch, a guided tour to Kyrenia was offered to the participants. During the tour, the participants had the opportunity to visit the Bellapais monastery, Kyrenia Castle and the town center.

Please find the minutes as well as the annexes (participants’ list, programme of the workshop, agenda of Board Meeting, agenda of General Assembly, presentation of projects, financial report 2018 and Treasurer’s report) here. The presentations of the 2019 CEENQA Workshop can be found here (Key Notes and Examples of Good Practices).

Below, a few impressions of the annual Meeting:


 

Quality Agency for Higher Education/ Academic Information Centre (AIKA/AIC) registered on EQAR

In December 2018 the Register Committee of the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR) made decision on the inclusion of the Quality Agency for Higher Education/ Academic Information Centre (AIKA/AIC) in EQAR.

AIKA/AIC is the first Latvian higher education quality assurance agency that is included in EQAR, although external quality assurance in higher education in Latvia has developed since the restoration of independence in the early 1990s, with Latvia being one of the first European Higher Education Area (EHEA) countries that introduced a quality assurance system.

AIKA/AIC as a national quality assurance institution in Latvia was established in 2015 and since then the significant progress has been made. Inclusion of AIKA/AIC in EQAR was an aim that was defined already in 2015 when the Academic Information Centre (AIC) took over the responsibility for external quality assurance and the Quality Agency for Higher Education (AIKA) was established. Since March 2016 the achievement of this aim was supported by a European Social Fund project No.8.2.4.0/15/I/001 “Support for meeting the requirements set for EQAR agency”.

The decision on AIKA/AIC’s inclusion in EQAR is an achievement that follows the decision of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) to grant AIKA/AIC the full membership of ENQA. This is a joint achievement of the Latvian higher education community which certifies the compliance of the external quality assurance system in Latvia with the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). It fosters the enhancement of the quality and recognition of the Latvian higher education and states that AIKA/AIC has been recognised as a reliable and trustworthy cooperation partner in the higher education area.

CEENQA General Assembly and Workshop 2018

 

The annual meetings of CEENQA were held this year on 11-12 May 2018 in Tirana at Tirana International Hotel. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in Albania (ASCAL) generously hosted the event. On Friday evening, the congregation visited Durres. The participants could take part in a walking tour through Durres. There, the participants visited the Amphitheatre of Durres as well as the beach promenade. Afterwards, the participants had a fine dinner at the seafood restaurant ARTUR. On Saturday afternoon, following the General Assembly and lunch, a bus tour to Berat was offered to the participants. There the participants had the opportunity to visit Berat Fortress and the National Iconographic Museum “Onufri”.

Please find the minutes as well as the annexes (participants’ list, programme of the workshop, agenda of Board Meeting, agenda of General Assembly, presentation of projects, financial report 2017 and Treasurer’s report) here. If you want to have a few impressions of the annual meeting, please look at the pictures below.