European Quality Assurance Forum – Creativity and Diversity: Challenges for quality assurance beyond 2010

The E4-Group organised the 4th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) titled ‘Creativity and Diversity: Challenges for quality assurance beyond 2010‘ in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 19-21 November 2009.

In the rapidly changing higher education environment and with increased internationalisation, the diversity of European higher education institutions’ missions and profiles ensures knowledge creation as well as social and economic development through creative responses to complex questions. At the same time, there is a growing demand to ensure the quality of the education offered by higher education institutions and to promote transparency.The theme of this year’s Forum is “Creativity and Diversity: Challenges for quality assurance beyond 2010”. The main goal of this event is to provide a discussion forum centred on how current internal and external quality assurance approaches take account of institutional diversity and support creativity and innovative practices in higher education. Through plenary and parallel sessions, the discussion will frame these issues in the context of the ongoing construction of the European Higher Education Area.Following the success of the previous European Quality Assurance Forums, the fourth forum, co-organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, is hosted by Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) on 19-21 November 2009.