About ESABIH

Main aim of the project is introduction of European standards in evaluation and accreditation procedures on study programs at BH Universities.

In this way this Structural Measures project proposal focused on Governance Reform and fully supports the structural reform of Higher Education in the whole country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

Main planned activities are:

1.1 Evaluation of present situation on evaluation and accreditation procedures and legislation in EU

1.2. Evaluation of present situation on evaluation and accreditation procedures and legislation in BH

1.3. Conference and result presentation, road map definition

2.1 Developing of guidelines with basic procedures for evaluation and accreditation

2.2 Development of specific questionnaires for SER

2.3 Translation of procedures into templates to be used for internal and external evaluation of study programs

3.1 Training of the quality officers for evaluation and accreditation procedures

3.2. Study visits to the EU partner institutions

3.3. Knowledge transfer to the university departments/faculties

3.4 Training of University staff for self evaluation procedures of study programs

3.5 Introductory seminar for external assessors

3.6. Final seminar for external assessors

4.1 Training of University staff and Agency staff in evaluation and accreditation procedures (training of experts and students)

4.2 Purchase and instalment of the equipment for participating Universities

4.3. Tuning of procedures and methods-joined work of Universities and Agency

4.4. Improvement of legislation for evaluation and accreditation procedures in BH Higher Education

5.1Pilot projects selection

5.2 Self evaluation of selected study programs in BH Universities

5.3 External evaluation of selected study programs in BH Universities

5.4 Accreditation of selected study programs in BH Universities

6.1 Development of project website

6.2. Newsletter administration

6.3 Dissemination conference

7.1 Preparation of long term strategic action plans

8.1 Annual quality expert report

8.2 Assessment of project management results

9.1 Implementation of project management

9.2 Organisation of project management meetings of steering group

 

Mr Bokonjic emphasized that during project we should establish close cooperation between Universities and Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance in BH and to work on:

* fine tuning of developed procedures

* education of specific target groups in QA process

* putting of existing and developed QA procedures into practice through pilot projects

* improve compatibility and comparability of BH higher education with EU standards: evaluation and accreditation of study programmes are an essential step of the Bologna process.

In this way the project proposal fits very well in the development strategy for education in BH and will contribute to prepare the pre-accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina.