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With the dissolution of the Latvian agency HEQEC, its membership in CEENQA is discontinued. CEENQA President Iring Wasser addressed a letter to the country’s ministry, urging the establishment of a national agency in compliance with European Standards (ESG) and one that can join CEENQA in order for the country to continue to take part in the quality assurance dialog.

CEENQA welcomes its 25^th member, the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA), admitted by the general assembly by circular vote on December 11, 2012. It has its headquarters in the Netherlands but as a European organization it is listed under “Europe” in the Members column.

CEENQA welcomes its 24^th member, the Kosovo Accreditation Agency(KAA), admitted by the general assembly by circular vote on October 2, 2012.

The Executive Board held a teleconference on November 22, 2011. The agenda of the mintues can be read here.

The minutes of the meeting can be read here.

Annex 2 to the minutes with the Board activity table can be read here.

CEE Network Steering Committee member Todor Shopov and Secretary General Christina Rozsnyai are part of the project group. The Quality Procedures Project “Visions for the Future” aims to map good practice in external quality assurance via a survey to all ENQA and CEE Network member agencies. The project is to be completed in February 2012.

The proposed survey is divided into two parts. The aim of the first part is to obtain a general picture of what is happening about external QA procedures. The second part of the questionnaire tries to identify individual good practices (implemented or expected to be applied in the near future). This second part of the survey will help ENQA in mapping developed/advanced procedures.

Survey responses we will have a chance to directly feed into the ENQA statement to the Ministers in 2012.