The Regional Council for Cooperation (RCC) and the Knowledge and Innovation Center (KIC) are implementing the project External Evaluation of Quality Assurance Systems Against ESG in the Western Balkans aiming at providing assistance to agencies in the Balkans that are not full members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education – ENQA (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo*….) in the analysis of the situation within the higher education quality system.
Within the aforementioned project, a Panel consisting of: Fernando Miguel Galan Palomares, a higher education expert from Spain; Aleksandar Šušnjar, a higher education expert from Rijeka, and Nick Heerens, a higher education expert from Belgium, held meetings on 1-2 October 2020 with the Director, Management Board and the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education of the National Accreditation Body – NAT, as well as representatives of relevant institutions responsible for higher education in Serbia, the National Council for Higher Education, the Conference of Serbian Universities, the Conference of Academies of Vocational Studies, the Students Conference of Serbian Universities, the Students Conference of Academies of Vocational Studies and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. As Serbia went through the procedure of external quality control by ENQA in 2019, the Panel shall offer proposals to NAT for better implementation of ENQA recommendations in order to prepare for NAT’s renewal of full membership in that organization.