Enhancing QUAlity Management & Recognition in Latin American universities to underpin the Latin American Higher Education Space Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing QUAlity Management & Recognition in Latin American universities to underpin the Latin American Higher Education Space

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

EQUaM LA, which targets universities and quality assurance agencies in Colombia, Argentina, Nicaragua and Panama, aims to support internal university procedures for quality management, and link them to enhanced processes for the recognition of foreign degrees and credits. This will be done via the collaboration of universities and national regulatory bodies, which are shaping quality assurance and accreditation systems. The project targets both quality assurance units and international cooperation staff in partner universities, as well as national agencies for quality assurance. One of its main outcomes is a jointly-developed ‘QA Tool-kit’ for universities. Through its activities (training events, development of the Tool-Kit and testing of the Tool-Kit in university partners), it will enhance internal QA structures and link them to international cooperation structures. This will simultaneously improve internal QA management and also help to increase international recognition of degrees and credits across borders in LA. The fact that the project includes four different LA countries in Central and South America attests to its regional dimension and ambition to support objectives of the Latin American Higher Education Space (ENLACES) in which QA and recognition are fundamentals.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 892171 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• AGENCIA NACIONAL DE EVALUACION DE LA CALIDAD Y ACREDITACION (ANECA)
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AISBL
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
• COMISION NACIONAL DE EVALUACION Y ACREDITACION UNIVERSITARIA CONEAU
• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTANDER