The European network of subject-specific and professional quality assurance EASPA invites to an international conference “Subject-based Quality Assurance: its contribution to quality development and mobility”. The conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, 21st May 2013. The agenda can be found here.  Registration is possible on the EASPA website. www.easpa.eu. The number of places is limited!

Approvement of new member At its annual meeting in Barcelona, on 19 November 2012, the EQANIE General Assembly approved the membership application of the Spanish accreditation agency ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain). The director of ANECA, Rafael van Grieken, met the members of the General Assembly and presented his agency.

The membership applications of the Russian accreditation agency AKKORK (Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development) as well as of the Romanian accreditation agency ARACIS (The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) have been positively assessed by the EQANIE General Assembly in July 2012 With the inclusion of these two agencies,

The accreditation activities of EQANIE, the European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education, are progressing steadily: At its last meeting in Edinburgh inMay, the Accreditation Committee accredited two computer science courses for the first time at the University of Latvia and prolonged accreditation to the full period forthree more courses from Milan and Riga. Further accreditations are pending forSpanish and Italian universities. At the meeting, EQANIE also welcomed the Irishman Kevin Marshall from Microsoftas a new member of the Accreditation Committee. Next to the Dutchwoman AntoniaWildvank from Capgemini, he is one of the two industry representatives on the international committee

EQANIE now provides a Russian version of the Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria. Thus, alongside the original English version, translations are now available in four languages ​​(German, Italian, Russian, Spanish). While the English mother document remains the relevant source of reference, the translations are provided in the interest of making the Euro-Inf Quality Label accessible for the widest possible

The General Assembly had elected seven high-ranking international experts for the next term of office at its last meeting in Milan in November. Both the President Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Heiss (Association of Informatics Departments and Research labs in Europe and neighbouring countries, Informatics Europe) and the Vice-President Dr. Iring Wasser (German Accreditation Agency for Degree

The Conference “Dimensions of Quality Assurance in Informatics Education 2011” that took place at Lake Como in Italy on 22-23 September 2011 was a great succes and provided an appropriate context for the celebration of the award of the 5 first Euro-Inf Quality Labels by EQANIE. The presentation of the Euro-Labels was the culmination of

The Workshop “Accreditation for Degree Programmes in Informatics – Requirements, Procedures, Experiences” that was held in Barcelona on 25 October 2011 was received with a lot of interest: More than half of all Spanish HEIs were represented. Several representatives from Italian HEIs were also present to find out about and discuss requirements and procedures for

The Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria are now also available in Spanish. Next to the Italian and the German version, this is the third version in a language other than English. By providing the key document in various languages, EQANIE hopes to make the Euro-Inf Quality label as accessible as possible for Higher Education Institutions

EQANIE and the partners of the Euro-Inf Spread Project invite to a workshop on accreditation in Barcelona on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011. The target group of the event includes representatives from higher education institutions who currently work on their self-assessment report or who are planning to submit an accreditation request with EQANIE in the near