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The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) held in the period from 17.5. – 18.5. In 2024, the regular annual General Assembly and workshop on cross-border cooperation in the field of quality assurance in higher education. The assembly was held in the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, organized by the Azerbaijani Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (TKTA).
Considering the topic of the workshop, the guests of the gathering were prominent experts and professors who spoke about internationalization in higher education.
At the General Assembly, the financial report, new requests for membership of agencies from Uzbekistan and Syria were discussed, the president and vice president of the network were elected, and new members of the network's Executive Board were elected.

On April 25, 2024, representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska participated in a webinar on the topic "The future of quality assurance - the agency's perspective" organized by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).

The speakers on the webinar, among others, were ENQA President Douglas Blackstock and ENQA Director Anna Gover, as well as representatives of quality assurance agencies from Finland and Slovakia.

Special attention is paid to the role of European standards and guidelines for quality assurance in higher education (ESG), as well as ways of interpreting the fulfillment of standards.

On May 16, 2024, a meeting was held in the premises of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska with Mr Colin Tuck, higher education policy consultant, i.e. former director of EQAR (The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education). The meeting was attended by the director of the Agency, prof. Biljana Vojvodić, PhD, and associates and by assoc. prof. Dijana Zrnić, PhD, and Marko Romić, MA, assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Banja Luka.

At the meeting, current topics in higher education were discussed, with a special focus on challenges in the procedures of recognition of foreign higher education qualifications, as well as on the collection of statistical data in the field of higher education for the purpose of implementing certain project activities.

ENQA (The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) and the ENIC-NARIC network (European Network of Information Centres in the European Region / the National Academic Recognition Information Centres in the European Union) co-organised the webinar “QA agencies and ENIC-NARICs: cooperation models and opportunities“. The webinar was held on April 8, 2024. It was attended by representatives of quality assurance agencies and ENIC/NARIC centres. A representative of the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska also followed the webinar.

The main topic of the webinar was the cooperation between quality assurance agencies and ENIC-NARIC centres. This webinar explored various approaches by presenting three different cases and discussing the particularities, advantages and challenges of each one. Andrina Wafer, QQI Head of International Mobility and Prior Learning presented the Irish case, Kristina Sutkute, SKVC Information and assessment officer presented the Lithuanian case and Bas Wegewijs, NUFFIC Team Coordinator / Policy Officer International Recognition presented the Netherlands case.