ShareAQU Catalunya is a partner in the Erasmus+ Structured Indicators for HEI Quality Systems Management project
AQU Catalunya is participating in Structured Indicators for HEI Quality Systems Management (SMART-QUAL), a project funded by the Erasmus+ programme [Key Action 2] and coordinated by CONNEX-EU (Belgium).
Over the next two and a half years, the Agency, together with eight other partners, will work to design a set of internationally harmonised indicators for internal quality assurance systems (IQAs).
Based on the review and compilation of different existing proposals, the project faces the challenge of developing a "quality indicators scoreboard" that will serve as a frame of reference for the harmonisation of quality assurance procedures at international level. The project also aims to develop a guide for the implementation of these indicators in QA systems and improve both their short and long-term efficiency. Initial results are expected to be available during 2021.
In addition to AQU Catalunya, the following universities and QA agencies from five European countries are taking part in the project:
- The international cooperation entity CONNEX-EU (Belgium) is the project coordinator.
- Quality assurance agencies: SKVC, Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (Lithuania) and A3ES, Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (Portugal).
- Universities: Universidade do Minho and Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and the International University of Catalonia (Spain).
