On October 14, 2019 the expert meeting «Analysis of National and International Systems of State Accreditation of Educational Activities – Possible Improvement Mechanisms» was held in the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation.

On October 2, 2019 the Agency for Strategic Initiatives «Tochka Kipeniia» (Moscow) at Higher School of Economics together with the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science held the seminar «New Model of State Control (Supervision) in Education under the Mechanism of a «Regulatory Guillotine».

This year the 20th anniversary of the Bologna process will be celebrated by a series of international conferences. In early May the first one of them was held – annual conference of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. The conference «Rankings: A Challenge to Higher Education?» took place at the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe. 155 representatives of rating and accreditation agencies, leading universities and mass media participated in the event.

On April 24-26, 2019 the 9th Forum of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, ENQA was held in Tallinn (Estonia) at Tallinn University. The Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education, EKKA hosted the event.