Events

On 13 October 2021, CEENQA’s yearly General Assembly and the accompanying workshop took place.

During the General Assembly, Olgun Cicek (YÖDAK, Northern Cyprus) was elected CEENQA’s new Vice-President. Simona Lache (ARACIS, Romania) and Benjamin Muhamedbegovic (HEA, Bosnia and Herzegovina) were elected new board members.

The workshop on “Online evaluations and external quality assurance” dealt with the changes to evaluation procedures brought along by the pandemic. Based on the experiences of the agencies in various European countries, it was discussed what lessons have been learned, what can be improved to adapt to changed circumstances and how quality assurance procedures will be conducted in the future.

You can find the presentations of the workshop here:
Anca Prisacariu: Adapting external quality assurance processes to an online format
Nataliia Stukalo: QA in pandemic times: Lessons learnt by NAQA (Ukraine)
Klemen Subic: CEENQA Guidelines for distance evaluation
Jolanta Silka: The importance of feedback and communication on the online evaluations

CEENQA’s seventh bi-monthly meeting took place on 15 September 2021 and included the following presentations:

Presentation of ANACEC, Moldova, Stela Guvir, Head of public relations and international cooperation office
Presentation of AZVO, Croatia, Emita Blagdan, Assistant Director for International Cooperation
DEQAR: supporting international transparency and automatic recognition in the EHEA, Colin Tück, Director of EQAR

CEENQA’s sixth bi-monthly meeting took place on 21 July 2021 and included the following presentations:

Presentation of HEPDAK, Turkey, Sergül Duygulu
Presentation of NAQA, Ukraine, Nataliia Stukalo, Vice Head
Experiences with virtual training workshops for evaluators, HEPDAK, Turkey, Ayla Bayık Temel (Vice President)

CEENQA’s fifth bi-monthly meeting took place on 19 May 2021 and included the following presentations:

Guide for effective stakeholder involvement in QA, ARACIS, Lucien Bollaert
Presentation of EPDAD, Turkey, Cemil Öztürk, President
Virtual visits and evaluations of teacher education programmes, EPDAD, Turkey, Dinçay Köksal 

CEENQA’s fourth bi-monthly meeting took place on 17 March 2021 and included the following presentations:

Presentation of NCEQE, Georgia, Khatia Tsiramua, Head of Planning, Research and International Relations Department
Presentation of SKVC, Lithuania, Aurelija Valeikienė, Deputy Director
Supporting quality of online/blended higher education in Georgia in post-pandemic world, NCEQE, Georgia, Lali Giorgidze, Deputy Head at Higher Education QA Department