DAAD-GAC conference - "Quality Assurance and Quality Development in Europe"

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Accreditation Council (GAC) are organising an international conference on "Quality Assurance and Quality Development in Europe" at 21 and 22 March this year in Berlin.
Please see the attached invitation, conference programme and registration form: Invitation, Conference programme, Registration form.
Invitation: "Quality Assurance and Quality Development in Europe"
In co-operation with the Foundation for the Accreditation of Study Programmes in Germany (Akkreditierungsrat) the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is organising an international conference on "Quality Assurance and Quality Development in Europe" at 21 & 22 March 2013 in Berlin.
The goal of this international conference is to discuss different methods of internal and external quality assurance and their strengths and weaknesses. Examples of practice from selected European countries and institutions shall illustrate various approaches. Additionally, the impact of qualification frameworks on mutual recognition of study periods and degrees will be looked at. Some attention will be paid to quality assurance issues of European co-operation in higher education. The conference addresses representatives of quality assurance bodies, QA managers of higher education institutions, programme directors (especially of double/joint degree programmes) and interested politicians. Selected representatives from student organisations will also be invited to join the seminar.
Registration is free of charge. Meals during the conference will be provided by the DAAD. Accommodation and travel costs have to be covered by the participants themselves.
For your information please find attached the draft programme.
Conference programme
Quality Assurance and Quality Development in Europe, 21 and 22 March 2013, Berlin.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
13:30 – 14.00 Opening of the Conference. Dr Siegbert Wuttig, Director, National Agency for EU Higher Education Co-operation, Germany; Dr Olaf Bartz, Managing Director, Accreditation Council, Germany.
14:30 – 15:00 Quality Assurance – Different Approaches. Josep Grifoll, Board Member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and Head of the Quality Assessment Department of AQU Catalunya
15:00 – 15:30 European and National Qualification Frameworks and their Impact on Mutual Recognition. Dr Birger Hendriks, Bologna Follow-up Group, Germany
16:00 – 18:00 Examples of Quality Assurance in Higher Education Co-operations – Parallel Working Groups –
Working Group I: Co-operations with South Eastern Europe, Chair: Prof Volker Gehmlich, Germany, N.N., Hungary, Prof. Jasmina Havranek, ASHE, Croatia
Working Group II: Co-operations with Northern Europe, Chair: Dr Vidmantas Tūtlys, Lithuania, Tove Blytt Holmen, NOKUT, Norway, Aurelija Valeikiene, SKVC, Lithuania
Working Group III: Co-operations with Western Europe, Chair: Dr Norma Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland, Carolyn Campbell, QAA, UK (to be asked), Karena Maguire, QQI, Ireland
Friday, 22 March 2013
09:00 – 09.45 Why Quality Assurance?
09:45 – 10:15 Reports from the Working Groups, Prof Volker Gehmlich, Dr Vidmantas Tūtlys, Dr Norma Ryan
10:15 – 10:45 Perspectives and Limitations of Quality Assurance, Dr Olaf Bartz, Managing Director, Accreditation Council, Germany
11:15 – 12:45 Panel Discussion: Developments, Obstacles and Prospects, Chair: Marina Steinmann, Head of Unit Bologna Process, DAAD. Participants: Josep Grifoll, Board Member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and Head of the Quality Assessment Department of AQU Catalunya Moritz Maikämper, Bologna Expert and former member of the Accreditation Council, Prof Dr Hans E. Roosendaal, University of Twente, Dr Christoph Grolimund, Director of the Swiss Center of Accreditation, and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (OAQ), Dr Sjur Bergan, Head of Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation, Council of Europe, France
12.45 Closing Remarks
Peter Greisler, Head of Subdivision 41 Institutions of Higher Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.