Maximum capacity has been reached and the registrations have been closed.
All the session will be recorded and the recordings will be available after the event on the website. 

The event booklet with more information about the speakers and their contributions is now available.

PRE-FORUM SESSIONS

TUESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER

 14.00-15.00 CET    Introduction to the European quality assurance framework
This pre-Forum session provided an introduction to the quality assurance framework of the European Higher Education Area. 

• Tia Loukkola, Director, Institutional Development, EUA
• Maria Kelo, Director, ENQA
  
   
  

WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER

16.00-19.00 CET    Meeting for student experts in quality assurance
This session is organised by ESU and separate registration information is available here.  

 

2020 European Quality Assurance Forum

THURSDAY, 12 NOVEMBER

During both days of the event, Tia Loukkola, the chair, and Ronny Heintze, member of the EQAF Programme Committee, will guide participants through the event.

10.00-11.00 CET     Opening Session I: Flexible higher education is here
This session will host three speakers in a discussion on the state of play and future perspectives regarding flexible higher education. How do higher education systems respond to the rapid transformation? And how should higher education institutions best prepare to face and implement the changes? 

What is flexible higher education? Reflections from a national case-study on flexible learning pathways

• Leasa Weimer, Researcher, Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Supporting flexible learning pathways in higher education through national qualification frameworks and QA – findings from a UNESCO international survey

• Michaela Martin, Programme specialist, IIEP-UNESCO

Purposefully different approaches to flexible learning at scale: a Dublin City University case study 

• Conchúr Mac Lochlainn, Research Officer/PhD candidate, Dublin City University, Ireland 
  Chair: Jens Jungblut, EQAF Programme Committee

 

11.00-11.30 CET   Break

 

11.30-13.00 CET    Session II: Internal quality assurance in emergency situations
During this session, speakers will present examples of how the internal quality assurance community across Europe reacted during the Covid-19 crisis.

Adaptations to internal quality assurance in Irish higher education institutions in response to Covid-19

• Mairéad Boland, Senior Quality Officer, Quality and Qualifications Ireland
  Chair: Joaquim Mourato, EQAF Programme Committee

Exceptional times: main challenges to higher education internal quality assurance systems

• Rodrigo Teixeira Lourenço, Pro-President for Quality Management and Assurance and Promotion of Academic Success, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
  Chair: Maria Kelo, Director, ENQA 

Unintended consequences – an exploration of how conducting internal quality reviews online has actually increased student engagement

• Stef Black, Senior Development Consultant, sparqs - Student Partnerships in Quality Scotland, United Kingdom
  Chair: Marieke Janssen, EQAF Programme Committee

Quality assessment of distance teaching and learning at the University of Geneva

• Ahidoba de Franchi Mandscheff, Head of Quality, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  Chair: Gohar Hovhannisyan, President, ESU

 

13.00-14.00 CET    Networking lunch break
Several breakout rooms will be available for networking during lunchtime. The attendees will be able to enable their cameras and microphones, as well as communicate via chat.

 

14.00-15.00 CET   Session III:  External quality assurance in emergency situations
In this session, three quality assurance agencies will present their approaches to the crisis and the lessons learnt. 

Quality assurance in times of emergency remote teaching

• Esther Huertas, Head of Quality Assurance Department, AQU Catalunya, Spain

Maintaining the efficacy of external QA in a virtual world

• Marie Gould, Head of Tertiary Education Monitoring and Review, Quality and Qualifications Ireland

Extending the role of QA agencies in response to pandemic challenges

• Nataliia Stukalo, Vice Head, National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, Ukraine
  Chair: Rikke Warming, EQAF Programme Committee

 

FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER

10.00-11.00 CET    Session IV: Micro-credentials paving the way to flexible higher education
This session will discuss micro-credentials and open education resources: What is the present status? How can higher education institutions make use of them? And how is their recognition and quality assurance organised?

State of play: micro-credentials in Europe

• Elena Cirlan, Policy & Project Officer, Institutional Development, EUA

Recognition, credentialisation and instructional design principles: How can we co-create academic QA standards in open and smart learning environments?

• Florian Rampelt, Project Lead (AI Campus), Stifterverband, Germany

Internal Quality Assurance to support high quality micro-credentials. Why do we not have enough contact tracers?

• Anthony F. Camilleri, Tertiary education policy consultant, Knowledge Innovation Centre
  Chair: Jakub Grodecki, EQAF Programme Committee

 

11.00-11.30 CET    Break

 

11.30-12.30 CET    Session V: Student engagement contributing to the development of quality culture
This session explores the role of student engagement in developing quality culture and how to ensure that students have the appropriate competences to take part in this work.

Quality assurance supporting the delivery of social competences – towards a quality culture. Based on the results of the DASCHE project

• Jakub Brdulak, Rector’s Proxy for Quality of Educationr, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Quality assurance and virtual programmes. How to reach quality assurance without hampering student engagement?

• Agnieszka Pechcińska, Vice-President of the Students’ Union, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Diversity of student reviewers: Characteristics, experiences, and implications for quality assurance

• Liv Teresa Muth, Student reviewer, German QA Student Experts’ Pool
  Chair: Geneviève Le Fort, EQAF Programme Committee

 

12.30-13.30  CET    Networking  lunch break

Several breakout rooms will be available for networking during lunchtime. The attendees will be able to enable their cameras and microphones, as well as communicate via chat.

 

13.30-14.30 CET    Closing Session VI: Quality assurance shaping change
This session will feature a discussion on the relationship quality assurance has with time: What role does time play in quality assurance? Do quality assurance practitioners ever discuss the temporal aspects of quality assurance processes?

• Antony McClaran, Vice-Chancellor of St Mary’s University, United Kingdom

• Oliver Vettori, Dean, Accreditations and Quality Management/Director Program Management & Teaching and Learning Affairs, WU Vienna, Austria
  Chair: Aleksandar Šušnjar, EQAF Programme Committee