Events

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.

This year, the CEENQA held its general assembly and workshop in Zagreb, kindly hosted by the Croatian quality assurance agency ASHE. The Workshop explored the  “WAYS FORWARD TO MAKE EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE A MORE EFFICIENT PROCESS ” with a number of higher education experts as speakers. The program can be seen here.

In the general assembly, Iring Wasser’s term as president of CEENQA ended and CEENQA members expressed their thanks to Dr. Wasser for his energetic leadership and the number of international projects he saw through or initiated during his office. Nora Skaburskiené was elected to the post. Two Board members, Ivan Leban and Martina Vidlakova, were re-elected for another two-year term and a new Board member, Duska Radmanovic, was elected. Christina Rozsnyai stepped down from the position of General Secretary and is succeeded by Marleen Roggan.

In addition, CEENQA accepting a new member, ANQA, from Armenia. A long-standing member, UC Poland, resigned from CEENQA as it ceased operations.

The program of the general assembly is available here.

The annual workshop and general assembly was in Krakow on 13-14 May 2016 at the late-14th-century building Collegium Maius of the Jagellonian University. The meeting marks the 15th anniversary of the official founding of the CEE Network, as the organization was called at the time, and which took place also in Krakow in 2001. Hosts of this meeting were the Polish University Accreditation Commission UAC and the Polish Accreditation Committee PKA. Following the workshop was a splendid dinner at Biała Różaand, in spite of the rain, a walking tour of the old market square. On Saturday afternoon, following the general assembly and lunch, participants joined a guided tour of Wavel Castle.

The workshop, with a welcome by Professor Andrzej Mania, vice-rector of the Jagellonian University, was titled “Quality Assurance of Transnational Higher Education”, a topic that has gained momentum leading up to and following the adaptation by the Ministers in Yerevan last May of the “European Approach to the Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes”. Speakers on the topic are Nora Skaburskiene, SKVC Lithuania (Presentation here); Achim Hopbach, AQ Austria (Presentation here); Fabrizio Trifiro, QAA UK (Presentation here); and Mark Frederiks, NVAO The Netherlands (Presentation here).

Resentative Olexandr Smyrnof from the soon-to-be-established accreditation committee of Ukraine was invited to the meeting. The program for the workshop is available here.

The highlights of the general assembly are

• the Latvian Quality Agency for Higher Education AIKA joining CEENQA as its 29th member
• the election of Dr. Achim Hopbach of AQ Austria and re-election of three Board members
• the adoption of a new staff-exchange scheme
• strengthened liaising with ENQA with Nora Skaburskiené joining Christina Rozsnyai on the Board of the Association
• revised application form based on “Common Values and Principles.”
• Additional information on CEENQA is available on the website www.ceenqa.org.

The Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) joins CEENQA.
The CEENQA membership voted on 8 February 2016 to accept IAAR, Kazakhstan, as its 28th member. IAAR is the second quality assurance agency from Kazakhstan.