External Review of the clusters of educational programmes "Chemistry" (04.03.01, 04.04.01); "Social work" (39.03.02, 39.04.02), "Management in work with youth" (39.04.03), Professional retraining programme "Juridical psychologist"; “State and Municipal Management” (38.03.04, 38.04.04), “Business-Information Science” (38.03.05, 38.04.05), “Customs Procedures” (38.05.02), Professional retraining programme “Manager of State and Municipal Service”; "Geography" (05.03.02, 05.04.02) was held on November 17-19, 2015 North-Caucasus Federal University (Stavropol, Russia).

On November 13-14, 2015 an annual Forum of Experts in Higher Education was held in Moscow. This year’s Forum was co-organized by the NCPA, the Guild of Experts in Higher Education and Moscow Pedagogical State University with the participation and financial support of the TEMPUS-1-2013-1-AM-TEMPUS-JPGR. The Forum brought together representatives from expert, academic, professional and student communities from Russia, Armenia, Ukraine and EU countries: Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland. There were over 160 participants (64 of them were ALIGN project partners).