Target area:	Higher Education Development
Sub-target area:	Quality Assurance
Target countries:	Moldova
Duration:	15/10/2012 - 31/08/2016
Partners:	University of Leipzig CHE Center for Higher Education University of Girona World University Service Austrian Committee University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest AQAS Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programs The National Unions of Students in Europe Roskilde University Technical University of Moldova Moldova State University Cahul State University "Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu" State University of Medicine and Pharmacy Nicolae Testemitanu Alecu Russo Balti State University Tiraspol State University Ministry of Education, Moldova Ministry of Health, Moldova National Rectors' Council of Moldova National Council of Student Organizations of Moldova
Budget line:	Tempus IV

Project description

In order to further develop quality assurance at universities in Moldova as well as to improve the university management and services for teachers and students, the project at hand is to undertake activities on strengthening of QA offices at involved HEIs, development and building of capacities at the target HEIs and wider academic community, as well as to provide support to competent national bodies via know-how transfer from EU partner HEIs, development of necessary documents, conducting of evaluation and accreditation of study programs.

The goal of the project is making quality assurance at Moldovan higher education institutions functional and conducive to the strategy development of the universities.

Objectives:

• Make the internal quality assurance offices of the Moldovan higher education institutions functional
• Empower students to participate in quality assurance, foster quality culture on level of students and staff
• Establish a functional dialogue between quality management structures and academic staff in order to complete the quality assurance cycle
• Empower quality assurance offices to conduct self-evaluation and prepare accreditation process
• Conduct international accreditation process of 3 study programs
• Capacity building at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, including groundwork and sample for the activity of the Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation of the Republic of Moldova