You are cordially invited to the ECA Training “Higher Education in a European Context: An introduction to Quality Assurance on an International level” which will take place on 3 and 4 June 2026 in Stockholm, Sweden, hosted by our member UKA – Swedish Higher Education Authority (Box 6024, SE-121 06 JOHANNESHOV, Sweden).
The landscape of higher education is an everchanging and dynamic sphere that affects many people across the world. Quality assurance (QA) in higher education has a vital role in ensuring that laws, regulations and quality standards are upheld. A QA professional should ideally have knowledge of not only their own national system of quality assurance but also the workings of other national organisations, cross-border organisations and the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG). ECA acknowledges the complexities of such a vast network of various systems and the potential challenges in gaining an overview of QA in Higher education in Europe. This training offers QA professionals an introduction to how various European Higher Education actors are involved in shaping quality assurance.
Objectives and intended learning outcomes
The participants will be able:
- To gain a general understanding of quality assurance of Higher Education in a European context
- To identify similarities and differences between different national quality assurance systems
- To better participate in cross-border activities on behalf of their national agency
- Establish important contacts with quality assurance professionals from other countries
Target group
Quality assurance professionals at national quality assurance agencies, higher education institutes and student unions who have the ambition to develop professionally and immerse themselves in quality assurance on an international level.
Participation in this training costs 550 euro. The fee for ECA members (i.e. staff from QA agencies that are members of ECA) is 350 euro. The training fee covers the costs of the training and venue, light lunches on 3 and 4 June. The fee does not cover any travel costs or accommodation.
Registration is required by 5 May 2026 through the form HERE.
After receiving your e‐mail, we will let you know whether it is still possible to participate in the training. If we cannot offer you a place this time your name will be recorded on a waiting list and you will have priority when the training is organised again.
More information about the training will follow shortly.
For further information, please contact us: secretariat@ecahe.eu.