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The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) held on 20th March, 2024 regular bimonthly online meeting of representatives of network member agencies. The venue, topics, and speakers of the upcoming general assembly and workshop, which will be held from 17th to 18th May, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, organized by the Azerbaijani agency TKTA, were presented at the meeting.

The first annual meeting of the project consortium within the SEQA-ESG 2 project was held online on March 7, 2024. Project partners discussed upcoming activities in the next year of the project. The activities include the organization of four workshops (one each in Belgrade and Novi Sad and two in Brussels) on the topics regarding the fulfillment of certain ESG requirements that were identified during peer counselling meetings held with each of the agencies participating in the project, as well as the staff mobility between agencies to acquire new knowledge and learning based on good practices of full members of ENQA.
As a reminder, the peer counselling meeting with the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska was held on December 5, 2023, and the following activity is the development of an action plan based on the recommendations of ENQA and EQAR experts from the peer counselling meeting.

On Tuesday, March 12, an online workshop was held at the University of East Sarajevo on the subject of accreditation of the University's study programs, in which a representative of the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska participated.

The thematic workshop was organized with the aim of preparing the study programs of the members of the Universty for the upcoming accreditation process and preparing the first reports on self-evaluation and quality assessment in accordance with the new standards for accreditation, prescribed by the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska.

During the workshop, Duska Radmanovic, MA, assistant director of the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska, presented the new Standards for the accreditation of study programs of the first and second cycle of studies.

The first meeting of participants-partners in the realization of the project "Strengthening Capacities and Mechanisms for Enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems in BiH" (SMEQA-ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE-STRAND-3), was held in Zenica on February 27th and 28th and it was organized by the University of Zenica. During the two-day meeting, upcoming activities and partners in the project were presented, a detailed plan of partner activities, assigned tasks and responsibilities, and technical details necessary for the implementation of this project were agreed upon.
The Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska is one of the partners in this project and in the next 3 years it will work on the implementation of this project together with 18 partner institutions.