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DEQU
DEVELOPMENT OF ELEMENTS FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE
WITHIN PRACTICE ORIENTED HIGHER EDUCATION

Project Objectives

The project aims at developing elements of quality assurance in selected “key processes” for practice and professional field oriented higher education under the outlines of the Bologna process as well as the Bruges-Copenhagen process. Furthermore DEQU intends to create benchmarks within these elements of quality assurance for practice and professional field oriented higher education, thereby facilitating national and international comparability of the different quality assurance methods. Elements of quality assurance in selected key processes and benchmarks will be defined within the planning and definition phase and tested in the realization phase of the project among project partners. In the realization and implementation phase of the project the results will be compared within, tested by, and validated via a wider range of international associated institutions.

• A common focus on quality assurance for selected key processes in practice oriented higher education will be developed   
• Quality assurance processes specific to practice-oriented higher education will be developed on a European basis (these benchmarks will lead to a higher degree of international comparability)   
• Synergies in quality assurance of VET and HE will be validated in different settings, and harnessed through ongoing exchange and the creation of a practice-oriented network for the exchange of experiences 

In DEQU navreme boheme will:

- perform an "accompayning evaluation" throughout the project
- support concept design of tools for key processes
- build formal and informal networks with local partners
- lead the testing of tools for key processes within consortium
- disseminate the tools across the transnational network and on local level
- validate the tools with a wider circle of universities from NMS and CEE

The DEQU consortium consists of each a university and an agency from each country:

- 3s Unternehmensberatung GmbH (AT, coordinator)
- fh-campus wien (AT, university and promoter)
- AQA (AT, agency)
- Universitat Jaume I (ES, university)
- ANECA (ES, agency)
- Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä (FI, university)
- Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FI, agency)
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University Prague (CZ, university)
- Czech HE accreditation council (CZ, agency)
- Leeds Metropolitan University (UK, university)
- QAA (UK, agency)
- navreme boheme s.r.o (CZ, evaluator)

Project web-site: www.dequ-info.net

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