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The Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska organized on January 12, a meeting with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (Magyar Felsőoktatási Akkreditációs Bizottság - MAB) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of East Sarajevo, where they discussed the preparation for the procedure of international accreditation of medical study programs from two public universities in the Republic of Srpska, which will be carried out by the Agency of Hungary with the consent of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME).
MAB is one of the few European and world agencies that has passed the procedure of external evaluation by the WFME, thereby gaining the right to carry out procedures for the international accreditation of medical faculties in relation to the standards of the WFME.

Director of the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska, Associate Prof. Biljana Vojvodic, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the Agency for Initial Accreditation, Jugoslav Tepic, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Accreditation and International Cooperation Duska Radmanovic, MA held a meeting on December 18, 2022 with Fermin Cordoba, Senior Political Advisor in the Delegation of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina and associates.
At the meeting, current events in the field of higher education in Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina were discussed, as well as plans for the next period in the field of quality assurance in higher education.

On January 11, representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska met with Mairead Boland, senior manager for the regulation of academic integrity and strategic partnership of the Quality and Qualifications Agency of Ireland (QQI) to discuss the terms for Agency joining the Global Academic Integrity Network (GAIN).
GAIN was officially launched in October 2022 in Dublin, co-founded by the Quality and Qualifications Agency of Ireland (QQI) and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency of Australia (TEQSA).

As part of the project "Supporting European Quality Assurance Agencies in meeting the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG)" - SEQA ESG II, a consultative meeting was held in Banja Luka on 5th December, 2023. The meeting was jointly organized by the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), which is the coordinator of the project. The aim of the meeting was for ENQA experts to get to know more closely all segments of the work of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska in connection with the fulfillment of ESG requirements related to the work of quality assurance agencies in the European area of higher education.