IMPEA meeting in Bilbao February 2020
On February 4, 2020, a meeting was held in Bilbao with the participation of some partners of the IMPEA project.
Formalisation of the ECA secretariat agreement
It has been formalized the agreement between ECA and ACSUCYL to assume the Secretariat of the Association. This agreement was signed by the Chair of the ECA Board, Maciej Markowski, and the director of ACSUCYL, José Ángel Domínguez. During the next two years ACSUCYL will assume this function with Sandra Marcos as coordinator.
Save the date for the eQuATIC policy seminar and fresh of-the-shelve Research 31-10-2019
Join us at the policy seminar: Strategic university cooperation – data informed policy making in internationalisation on the 31 October 2019 in Brussels. We will foster the dialogue between policy makers, decision makers at HEIs and practitioners on how to improve the quality of (mobility-enabling) university partnerships. Discussing this topic in view of the next […]
New ECA Secretariat
After having hosted the ECA Secretariat since the start of ECA in 2003 the NVAO informed the ECA members last year that it was time for another ECA member agency to take up this responsibility. The General Meeting of ECA decided on 19 February 2019 that from 1st July 2019 the ECA Secretariat will be […]
eQuatic project: research paper published and training held
The eQuATIC project on assessing international partnerships has published the research paper “The Use of Data for Internationalisation in Higher Education”. ECA is a partner in this project. The eQuATIC project, DZS and Charles University have also organised a training on evaluation of Erasmus agreements for the next Erasmus programme. The training took place in Prague […]
ECA discussion paper on European Universities
At the Annual Meeting of ECA in Riga on 6 June 2019 the ECA members have approved the ECA Discussion Paper European Universities Initiative -considerations regarding quality and quality asurance. This paper has been prepared by Working Group 2 of ECA.
Quality assurance of joint programmes – a global challenge and possible responses
The INQAAHE Conference 2019 took part from 25th to 27th of March in Colombo, Sri Lanka under the topic “Quality Assurance, Qualifications, and Recognition: Fostering Trust in a Globalised World”. Maciej Markowski (PKA) and Eva Fernández de Labastida (Unibasq) took part in the meeting for the regional net of quality assurance agencies […]
Open Source University Alliance
The Open Source University Alliance Initiative is an initiative of the Erasmus Without Paper project (EWP) that aims to let all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Europe face the challenges of the information society, in an efficient and qualitative way. By creating an open repository of source code and software, the higher education community will […]
ECA contribution to the CTI annual conference
CTI, the ECA member agency, hosted an annual international conference “COLLOQUE ANNUEL DE LA CTI”. It took place on 11 and 12 February 2019 in Saint-Etienne. “Quality and internationalisation” was one of the main topics of the event. ECA Board members – Maciej Markowski and Ronny Heintze, were invited to contribute […]
Ann Verreth, former ECA Vice-chair
We would like to inform you that on 1st of February 2019 Ann Verreth has left NVAO and thus the ECA Vice-Chair position. Ann became general manager of the Association of the university KULeuven. On behalf of the ECA members we would like to thank Ann for her contribution to the ECA activities and development. […]
