Launched in: 2016
Staff responsible for programme: Management, technician for QA Internationalisation
Bodies supervising: Committee of Experts (since 2020)
2019-2022 Strategic Line: L7
The goal is to strengthen:
- Integration of international experts in ACPUA´s structure.
- Participation of international experts in ACPUA´s quality assurance activities.
- Insertion into international Associations and global Networks.
- Development of QA activities abroad.
- Cooperation and stable relations with non-Spanish QA Agencies.
- A common understanding of learners’ needs and SCL (Student-centred learning).
- Participation in international projects, particularly within the EHEA.
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Cooperation Networks
Participation in projects
ACPUA participates often in international projects:
Evaluations
In the provision of these evaluation services, the ACPUA (carried out through the corresponding agreements) applies its evaluation criteria and guides and complies with the provisions of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).
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ACPUA+INTERNATIONAL Seminars
- ACPUA INVITED TO GIVE AN INTERNATIONAL SPEECH BY INQAAHE and UNESCO
7 and 8 November 2024: The ACPUA has participated, invited by INQAAHE, in the international event "Future Proofing Accreditation, Standards and Education" organised by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), an organisation linked to UNESCO.
The seminar, which brought together entities from a large number of countries in charge of accrediting and certifying higher education degrees and institutions, aimed to discuss the need to include in the certification protocols of quality assurance systems specific criteria referring to sustainability issues, both in the governance of the institutions and in their training programmes and research activity.
The representatives of the agencies Andy Tunnicliffe, international expert and ACPUA collaborator, together with Isaac Galobardes, Director of AQUA, the Andorran University Quality Agency, presented the results of the project "Proposal of indicators for the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals in institutional quality accreditation" carried out jointly.
The ACPUA also had the opportunity to present its ALCAEUS programme for the certification of university centres' commitment to the SDGs and also its new Institutional Accreditation Renewal Programme which includes specific criteria on sustainability.
Link to the HESI event website: Future-Proofing Accreditation, Quality Assurance and Standards | Times Higher Education (THE)
- ACPUA´s Participation at the III Iberoamerican Seminar on Quality in Online Education
3 and 4 september 2024, Empowering Excellence with Artificial Intelligence. Panamá
The OEI and the ACPUA have shown their interest in collaborating to share evaluation approaches and, in particular, to disseminate the ALCAEUS protocol created by the Aragonese Agency, which aims to make visible the efforts of university institutions to develop the 2030 Agenda..
The presentation of the ALCAEUS programme took place by videoconference and was given by the quality assurance coordinator, Isabel Ortega;
VIDEO Presentación Seminario ACPUA (comienza minuto 33:15)
- ACPUA + International Seminar: University reform in Peru
Wednesday, February 1 2023.
Dr. Carmela Chavez, from the Peruvian National Superintendence of Higher Education (SUNEDU), holds a PhD in Sociology, having specialised in comparative university systems.
Her interesting lecture, chaired by José Ángel Castellanos, Vice-Rector for Academic Policy at the University of Zaragoza, took place in the Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, in front of an audience of directors of Spanish quality agencies, professors and quality experts from Spain and abroad.
- ACPUA+International Seminar (social perspective): The Universities of the Indigenous Communities in Colombia
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 5 p.m. (peninsular time).
Participants:
- Rosalba Ipía, promoter of the Intercultural Indigenous Autonomous University (UAIIN). Colombia.
- Libio Palechor, promoter of the Intercultural Indigenous Autonomous University (UAIIN). Colombia.
- Julio Gaitan. University of Rosario. Bogotá-Colombia.
- Antonio Serrano. Director of ACPUA. Spain
