ENQA

ENQA is the recognised representative body of quality assurance agencies in the EHEA. ENQA represents their interests internationally, supports them nationally and provides them with comprehensive services, peer learning and networking opportunities. Under ENQA’s umbrella, the community of agencies drives innovation in quality assurance and refine quality assurance processes.

ENQA’s members are quality assurance agencies in the EHEA, that have demonstrated compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA (ESG), through an independent peer review. ENQA’s affiliates are organisations with a demonstratable interest in quality assurance both within the EHEA and globally.

Active participation in the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) as a consultative member forms an important part of ENQA’s policymaking role. ENQA has participated in various working and advisory groups of the BFUG along the years.

In cooperation and consultation with the other E4 members (EUA, EURASHE and ESU), ENQA had the important task of preparing the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area(ESG) which were adopted by the European ministers of education in the Bergen Summit of May 2005. In 2012, the E4, together with Business Europe, Education International and EQAR, were asked to prepare an initial proposal for revised ESG to be submitted to the BFUG. The ESG 2015 were adopted in Yerevan in May 2015.

ENQA and the rest of the E4 are also the co-founders of the European Quality Assurance Register in Higher Education (EQAR), which was launched in 2008 at the request of European ministers of education in Bergen (2005) and London (2007). The E4 organisations are members of EQAR’s Executive Board and General Assembly and each nominate two members of the Register Committee.

ENQA contributes to the ministerial conferences by producing position papers and reports that take stock of the developments in the area of QA in the EHEA since the previous ministerial meeting.