Draft agenda

1. Welcome and introduction to the meeting

2. Adoption of agenda

• BFUG8_1a Draft agenda BFUG Meeting Vienna April 2006
• BFUG8_1b Draft annotated agenda BFUG Meeting Vienna April 2006

3. Minutes of the last BFUG and Board meetings 

• BFUG Meeting 7 Manchester Oct 2005 - Minutes
• BFUG Board 11 Vienna Jan 2006 - Minutes

4. BFUG work programme: progress reports from working groups

Stocktaking

• BFUG8_4a WG Stocktaking Interim report BFUG meeting Vienna April 2006
• WG Stocktaking - Letter to the BFUG 2006
• BFUG8_4a(i) Annex A - Indicators for stocktaking scorecard
• BFUG8_4a(ii) Template for national reports 2005-2007
• BFUG8_4a(ii) Annex B - WG Stocktaking timeline 2005-2007

Qualifications Frameworks

• BFUG8_4b WG Qualifications frameworks Interim report BFUG meeting Vienna April 2006

External Dimension & feedback on Holy See seminar

• BFUG8_4c(i) WG External dimension Interim report BFUG meeting Vienna April 2006
• BFUG8_4c(ii) WG External dimension Working plan 2005-2007

Social Dimension and Data on Staff and Student Mobility (including a discussion on the social dimension)

• BFUG8_4d WG Social dimension and Mobility Interim report BFUG meeting Vienna April 2006

External dimension: international cooperation, Mexico, China meetings

• BFUG8_4e(i) WG External dimension - Mexico conference

5. BFUG work programme: topics for discussion

Portability of grants and loans

• BFUG8_5 WG Portability of grants and loans - Proposition

6. Initial proposals for 2007 Ministerial Event

• BFUG8_6 Update on the Ministerial Conference London 2007

7. Candidates for 2009 Ministerial Conference – information

• BFUG8_7 Letter to 2009 Ministerial Conference host candidates
• BFUGB11_3a Croatia letter of interest hosting 2009 Ministerial Conference
• BFUGB11_3b Slovak Republic letter of interest hosting 2009 Ministerial Conference
• BFUGB11_3c BENELUX letter of interest hosting 2009 Ministerial Conference

8. Candidates for Bologna Board

• BFUG8_8 Election of new Board members

9. BFUG work programme: progress reports from projects

European register of Quality Assurance Agencies

• BFUG8_9a Report of E4 Group on Quality Assurance

Principles for doctoral programmes

• BFUG8_9b EUA report on Doctoral Programmes Follow-Up 2005-2007

10. BFUG work programme

National action plans for recognition

• BFUG8_10 Draft Guidelines for national action plans for recognition

11. Contribution from the European Commission: From Bergen to London

12. Capacity building: feedback from Council of Europe – Austrian Bologna Process Information Seminar for new accession countries

• Seminar Information on the Bologna Process - Vienna 2006
• BFUG8_12 Council of Europe report on the Austrian Bologna Process information Seminar
• BFUG8_12 Report from Armenia - Austrian Information Seminar
• BFUG8_12 Report from Moldova - Austrian Information Seminar

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13. Consultative members – contribution to the Bologna Process

• BFUG8_13a EUA contribution
• BFUG8_13b ESIB contribution
• BFUG8_13c Council of Europe
• BFUG8_13d Education International contribution
• BFUGB11_8 European Commission contribution

14. Any other business

Date of next Board meeting (BFUGB12) - 13 June 2006, Vienna.
Date of next BFUG meeting (BFUG9) - 12-13 October 2006, Helsinki.