The kick off meeting of the Erasmus + DEQAR CONNECT program took place on May 11.National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance is one of the project partners. Head of the center Ruben Topchyan and senior specialist of the Institutional and Program Accreditation Department Varduhi Gyulazyan participated in the opening meeting of the program.
The goal of the DEQAR CONNECT program is to promote quality assurance and its recognition in the European Higher Education Area. DECAR is EQAR’s Database of External Quality Assurance Reports, launched in 2018.The DEQAR CONNECT project focuses on two of the EHEA key commitments, supporting quality assurance and recognition inside the EHEA, and consists of two strands:
· DEQAR CONNECT expands coverage to EHEA countries currently under-represented in DEQAR, by supporting the participation of agencies that could not join DEQAR in the first stage.
· The aim of DEQAR CONNECT program is to enhance connectivity by exploiting existing synergies and exploring new opportunities to use DEQAR data directly in the recognition workflow, digital credentialing and elsewhere.
The program is coordinated by The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education.