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The 53rd regular session of the Steering Board of the Agency was held on the premises of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska on February 28, 2025. The following documents were discussed and adopted at the session: the Agency's Work Report for 2024, the Agency’s Financial Report and the Explanation of the Financial Report for 2024, the Work Plan of the Agency with the Financial Plan for 2025, the Explanation of the Financial Plan of the Agency for 2025 and Public Procurement Plan for 2025. The Steering Board appointed a new member of the Agency's Accreditation Council from among students, since the mandate of the previous student representative in this body has expired. On the agenda of the session were other issues of importance for the work of the Agency.

In Banja Luka, from December 2nd to December 3rd, 2024, within the SMEQA project – Strengthening Capacities and Mechanisms for Enhancement of the Quality Assurance System in Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a conference was held at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka on the key principles and elements of the model for external evaluation in institutional and program accreditation. In addition to representatives from the Higher Education Agency of the Republic of Srpska and other project partners, the conference in Banja Luka was attended by the Director of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) and a member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Quality Assurance (ENQA), Peter Levante Lakatos, who presented ways to apply ESG in different contexts and new trends in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), as well as the Director of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), Aleksandar Susnjar, who spoke about the role of EQAR in the European Higher Education Area.

The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) held its regular bi-monthly online meeting of member agency representatives on January 15, 2025.
The meeting was opened by the President of the network, Mrs Vesna Dodikovic-Jurkovic, followed by presentations from representatives of the Albanian agency ASCAL, who discussed the procedures and challenges in the agency's work, and a representative of the Romanian agency ARACIS, who presented the newly developed external evaluation methodology created by ARACIS.

Representatives of the Higher Education Agency of the Republic of Srpska (AHERS) participated in the third workshop within the SEQA ESG 2 project, organized by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).The workshop, which discussed stakeholder involvement in the work of quality assurance agencies in higher education, was held in Brussels (Belgium) on 27 and 28 October. The workshop participants were representatives of the partner agencies in the project, coming from Azerbaijan (TKTA), Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska (HEA BiH and AHERS), Serbia (NEAQA) and Ukraine (NAQA).