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CUBRIK

CUBRIK

'Strengthening Quality Assurance System within Western Balkans HEI's in Support of National and Regional Planning'

 

Background

The most radical changes in the educational systems of post-communist societies have occurred in the field of higher education. University autonomy, accountability and quality assurance have been identified as the most critical areas for countries in transition, which have the mission to develop a strong and skilled workforce. South East European (SEE) countries are especially facing a growing demand fro skilled labour force. Beyond the question of numbers of students, Balkans countries also face significant problems with the quality assurance that adversely affects the quality of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

CUBRIK is a 3-year project which aims at strengthening the quality assurance system of HEIs in Bosnia and Herzagovina, Macedonia and Serbia at university, national and regional levels.

 

Objectives

Due to the exisiting challenges of the quality assurance system in the three targeted countries, insufficient expertise both in terms of personnel, tools and information, poor co-ordination or communication between nation and universities' authorities, and the lack of cooperation among Ministries, Quality Assurance Agencies and universities, CUBRIK has set specific objectives to improve the current situation:

  1. Creation of a quality assurance framework through the development of common QA practices and network at national and regional level.
  2. Strengthening capacity building through targeted training programmes and pilot assessment activities for the external institutional assessment of Universities and Quality Assurance Agencies in Western Balkans.

 

Outcomes and Outputs

  1. Creation of a functional framework for the QA implementation:

    - To increase inter-institutional liaison, networking and sharing of best-practices by the creation of a network of expert, development of an information system and drafting of study trend analysis.

  2. Set up a Western Balkans Quality Assurance Observatory:

    - To facilitate the communication, agree on common practices, track the last development and foster benchmarking initiatives.

  3. Defining common guidelines and methodologies for QA at National and regional level:

    - To foster the creation of integral strategies supported by data evidence and based on the constitution of common values.

  4. Strengthen capacity building through targeted training programme.

  5. Improve technical capacity by the conducting External Institutional Assessment within HEIs.

  6. Widely disseminate project results within Western Balkans institutions and contribute to the Bologna Process by creating attractiveness of the European higher education. 

 

 Partner Institutions

 

university of alicante University of Alicante (Co-ordinator) Alicante EspaƱa
  Federal Ministry of Education and Science B&H Mostar Bosnia & Herzegovina
11.gif The Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Srpska Banja Luka Bosnia & Herzegovina
21.gif The Ministry of Education and Science of Macedonia Skopje Republic of Macedonia
22.gif Ministry of Education
Belgrade Serbia
6-partner.gif Ministry of Education of Spain Madrid Spain
banjaluka2.gif Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance Banja Luka Bosnia & Herzegovina
  Higher Education Accreditation Board of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje Republic of Macedonia
23.gif Serbian Accreditation and Quality Evaluation Commission Belgrade Serbia
banjaluka.gif University of Banja Luka Banja Luka Bosnia & Herzegovina
15.gif University of Mostar Mostar Bosnia & Herzegovina
18.gif University of Tuzla Tuzla Bosnia & Herzegovina
19.gif University of Zenica Zenica Bosnia & Herzegovina
kliment.gif University St. Kliment Ohridski Bitola Republic of Macedonia
tetova.gif State University of Tetova Tetova Republic of Macedonia
14.gif University of Kragujevac Kragujevac Serbia
17.gif University of Novi Sad Novi Sad Serbia
16.gif University of Nis Nis Serbia
4-partner.gif Erasmushogeschool Burssel Brussel BE
13.gif University of College Cork Cork Ireland
1-partner.gif Accreditation Agency for Degree Programmes in Engineering Dusseldorf DE
3-partner.gif Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance (AQA) Wien AT

 


 

For further information on the CUBRIK project, please see the following link:

http://www.cubrik.eu/

Quality Enhancement Unit

Aonad Feabhsaithe Cáilíochta

6 Carrigside, College Road

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