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QUATREC – Comparing Qualifications for Reliable Recognition

project № 595635-ЕРР-1-2018-1-LV-EPPKA3-NARIC

The project

The project “Comparing qualifications for reliable recognition – QUATREC” is co-financed by the European Commission, program “Erasmus +”, Higher Education - Knowledge Alliances, Bologna Support, Jean Monnet.

The project is implemented by ENIC-NARIC centres of five countries: Latvia (coordinator), United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Estonia and Armenia.

Main goal

To encourage the use of learning outcomes in credential evaluation for improved recognition in line with existing and emerging qualification frameworks.

Specific objectives

To conduct horizontal comparison of qualifications and their learning outcomes and search whether learning outcomes of the same level qualifications have substantial differences and qualifications are comparable.

Target groups

National centres for academic recognition and mobility from the ENIC-NARIC Network;
All interested stakeholders, using the expertise and capacity of the individual National centres for academic recognition and mobility from ENIC-NARIC Network.

Project duration

1 March 2018 – 29 February 2020

Main activities

Collection and summary of information regarding national higher education system, national qualifications framework, concrete bachelor qualification and concrete master level qualification, recognition practices.
Elaboration of the methodology of the comparative study.
Discussions on the results of the horizontal comparison of qualifications and their levelling – similarities and differences.
Preparation of proposals for effective use of the qualification frameworks and learning outcomes in the recognition.
Dissemination of the results through web pages of project partners, international conferences and ENIC/NARIC meetings.

Consortium and Project Team

Logos and Information
	Academic Information Centre (coordinator), Latvia
	UK NARIC – United Kingdom
	National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID), Bulgaria
	Archimedes Foundation, Estonia
	National Information Center for Academic Recognition and Mobility (ARMENIC), Armenia.

More information: www.aic.lv/.../quatrec

News

11.04.2019 Second organizational meeting of project QUATREC
The second organizational meeting of project QUATREC - Comparing qualifications for reliable recognition took place on 03.04.2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The National Center for Information and Documentation hosted the second organizational meeting of the consortium of five national ENIC and NARIC centres from Latvia (coordinator), Bulgaria, Armenia, Estonia and the United Kingdom on project QUATREC - Comparing qualifications for reliable recognition, which took place on April 03, 2019 in Sofia.

The project is co-financed by the European Commission, program “Erasmus +”, Higher Education - Knowledge Alliances, Bologna Support, Jean Monnet.

The meeting started with a presentation about the national structure of academic recognition in Bulgaria, some good practices and main challenges. Later the project coordinators provided additional information on the Project Activity Plan and the forthcoming meetings of the consortium to partners. Each partner reported the progress in terms of the project activity, shared experience gained and challenges faced. Valuable discussions were made on the activities made up to now and possible optimizations to the project results were commented.

During the meeting the partners discussed the final report content and structure, analyzed the qualification learning outcomes and deadlines of main activities and clarified the main project activities and schedule by the end of the project in 2020.

Next consortium meeting will be held in Estonia in the end of August or September.

21.09.2018 First organizational meeting on the project QUATREC
The first organizational meeting on the project QUATREC - Comparing qualifications for reliable recognition took place successfully.

On August 22, 2018 in Riga, Latvia took place the first organizational meeting of the consortium of the project QUATREC - Comparing qualifications for reliable recognition, co-financed by the European Commission, program “Erasmus +”, Higher Education - Knowledge Alliances, Bologna Support, Jean Monnet. The meeting was organized by the Academic Information Centre of Latvia (AIC) as a leading institution in the project.

The coordinator informed the participants, representing the 4 partner centers from Armenia, Bulgaria, Estonia and United Kingdom about the main activities of the project, the expected results and the contribution of each partner. The schedule of activities during the implementation period was also discussed, further intermediate meetings, as well as the criteria for selecting one bachelor and one master qualification for in-depth study, different aspects of qualifications to be explored and compared and other issues of mutual interest.

The scheduled end of the project is February 29, 2020.