De European University Association (EUA) gaat onderzoeken hoe de interne kwaliteitscultuur zich in het kader van de het Bolognaproces heeft ontwikkeld binnen de Europese universiteiten. Het eindrapport met good practices wordt september volgend jaar gepubliceerd.

EUA: 'The quality of European higher education is at the heart of the Bologna Process and European governments have committed to supporting the development of quality assurance at the university, national and European level.'

Together with its partners, the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and QAA Scotland, and following its Quality Culture project EUA will analyse the development of quality culture in higher education institutions (HEIs) across Europe and provide an overall picture of the internal quality assurance in place in HEIs across the 46 Bologna Process countries. It will also seek to identify and disseminate good practices that apply to internal quality assurance.

The first step of the project – supported by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme - will be based around a survey of European universities and higher education institutions, in order to capture the institutional quality assurance processes in place.

'In 2005, Education Ministers adopted the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area that had been proposed by the key stakeholder organisations. Until now there has been no specific study to look at the impact of these quality guidelines and how they have been adopted at the university level', aldus EUA.