Quality Assurance of European Universities Alliances: Aligning Internal & External QA and Student Involvement

2023 European Quality Assurance Forum Paper

In October 2018 the European Commission initiated its first call for proposals to set up alliances of European Universities, following the Sorbonne speech of President Macron and the Conclusions of the European Council in the previous year. In 2018 the Flemish department of NVAO considered that these new European Universities would need a European QA solution and, therefore, prepared the Erasmus+ project proposal “Developing a European Approach for Comprehensive QA of (European) University Networks” (EUniQ).

The EUniQ project was selected and coordinated by NVAO on behalf of the Flemish Community. The project ran from 2019 to 2021 and the consortium comprised eight QA agencies, six ministries and the European stakeholders’ organizations ESU, EUA and ENQA.

Read the PDF Paper Frederik Guibert Provijn QA of European Universities Alliances