Conference to launch the programme “Quality assurance in the Romanian higher education in European context. Development of academic quality management at system and institutional level“
On 10 February 2009, in the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies Hall, took place the Conference of launching the programme financed by the European Social Fund within the Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development entitled “Quality assurance in the Romanian higher education in European context. Development of academic quality management at system and institutional level” (contract no.: POSDRU/2/1.2/S/1).
This project’s direct aims are the priorities of the sectoral operational programme for human resources development by actions for the system, as well as by actions meant for improving institutional capacity: quality evaluators, development of the management staff in universities, decision-makers and those involved in policy-making. This project wishes to develop and strengthen a positive bias of the academic community with concern to the process of quality assurance in higher education (issues such as the joint understanding of basic concepts, of values, principles and mechanisms etc.), especially from the perspective of the European context which is extremely prolific in this area. Additionally, the project also wishes to develop practical aspects of the quality assurance process by: providing higher education institutions (HEI) with a real support in drawing up and implementing efficient internal quality assurance systems; encouraging the external framework of fulfilling a continuous requirement – quality assurance at system level.
The conference’s agenda comprised a series of presentations delivered by the team of project activity coordination, as well as a press conference.