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On 9 July 2009, György Bazsa, member of the CEE Network Steering Committee, participated in the first full-day special-purpose meeting between INQAAHE and the regional networks. The representatives of the networks discussed capacity building activities and the organisation of the networks. For more information please link here.

The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) is organising, jointly with the European Association of Universities (EUA), a European Conference focused on the topic: Institutional Strategic Quality Management: From Minimum Requirements to Overall Quality Improvement. 15-17 October 2009, Bucharest, Romania.

The President of the CEE Network, Professor Pavol Navrat, participated at the INQAAHE Conference 2009 in Abu Dhabi held on 30th March – 2nd April. Please click here to read the President’s report. Attached to the conference was a meeting of the regional networks affiliated with the INQAAHE, where the President represented the CEE Network.

At the 3 April 2007 meeting of the INQAAHE Board, held attached to the General Assembly, in Toronto, Canada, Prof. As. Dhurata Bozo, director of the Public Accreditation Agency of Higher Education in Albania, a CEE Network member. At the INQAAHE Board she is representing the CEE region.

For more information on the upcoming CEE Network cooperation project under the Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity (GIQAC) of the World Bank please go to www.inqaahe.org

The late Dr. Stefanie Hofmann represented the CEE Network at the conference in Spain titled “Implementing Quality Assurance standards in the European Higher Education Area. The way forward” on 3-4 July 2006, organised by ANECA. You can view the presentation, dealing with the CEE Network survey, at

http://www.aneca.es/actividades/docs/eventos/uimp06_hofmann.pdf

“Mapping external quality assurance in Central and Eastern Europe. A comparative survey by the CEE Network” by Stefanie Hofmann, ACQUIN, was published in the series ENQA Occasional Papers, No. 8. A limited number of copies may be ordered free of charge by writing to Christina Rozsnyai at rozsnyai@mab.hu, or by linking to www.enqa.eu/pubs.lasso