“Enhancing the Coverage and Connectivity of QA in the EHEA through DEQAR” 

Project duration: 01.02.2020 – 31.01.2022

At the beginning of 2020 NCPA joined the consortium of the DEQAR CONNECT project “Enhancing the Coverage and Connectivity of QA in the EHEA through DEQAR”.

DEQAR is a database of higher education institutions and programmes accredited by agencies recognized at the European level. The main aim of DEQAR is to widely inform public about accreditation agencies and their decisions at international, European and national levels. Russian higher education institutions which passed international accreditation by an agency recognized by ENQA and registered in EQAR have a right to upload accredited programmes into DEQAR database. It confirms their correspondence to ESG-2015 standards and is a base for recognition of these programmes and HEIs on the territory of the EHEA.

DEQAR CONNECT project is coordinated by EQAR and is financially supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

The project focuses on two of the EHEA key commitments, supporting quality assurance and recognition inside the EHEA, and consists of two strands:

• Expand coverage to EHEA countries currently under-represented in DEQAR, by supporting the participation of agencies that could not join DEQAR in the first stage.
• Enhance connectivity by exploiting existing synergies and exploring new opportunities to use DEQAR data directly in the recognition workflow, digital credentialing and elsewhere.

Partners of the project:

• ACQUIN – Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute
• ACSUCYL – Quality Assurance Agency for the University System of Castilla y León
• AEQES – Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Qualité de l’Enseignement Supérieur
• AIC – Academic Information Centre
• ANQA – National Center For Professional Education Quality Assurance
• ASHE – Agency for Science and Higher Education (Croatia, lead)
• AQ Austria – Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria
• CIMEA – Centro di Informazione sulla Mobilità e le Equivalenze (Italy)
• CNRED – National Center for Recognition and Equivalence of Diplomas (Romania)
• CTI – Engineering Degree Commission
• EAEVE – European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education
• France Éducation international (Formerly CIEP – Centre international d’études) pédagogiques
• HAC – Hungarian Accreditation Committee
• IAAR – Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating
• IQAA – Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
• MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement
• Nuffic
• NCEQE – National Center for Education Quality Enhancement
• NCPA – National Center for Public Accreditation
• NVAO – Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders
• SKVC – Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education tion

Associate partners: 

• ENQA – European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
• ESU – European Students Union
• EUA – European University Association
• EURASHE – European Association of Institutions in Higher Education

 More information about DEQAR CONNECT project on the official website of EQAR