CEE Network

The Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education was founded on October 13, 2001 in Cracow, Poland, and was formally established on October 19, 2002 in Vienna. It succeeds the Regional Subnetwork of the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education, established November 19, 2000 in Budapest, Hungary.
The CEE Network is a non-governmental and non-profit organization.

The objectives of the CEE Network are

to share experiences and to foster cooperation among member agencies
to exchange information about background, aims, procedures and outcomes of activities of member agencies
to recommend experts
to serve as a clearing house for issues on quality assurance in higher education in the Central and Eastern European countries
to assist each other in elaborating measures for harmonizing activities in quality assurance, in order to participate in the European dimension of higher education, and to play a proactive role in shaping the European higher education area
to open common possibilities in launching new projects for the sake of better quality in higher education and build consortia for joint activities, including the applications to funds.

Members

1. Public Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (PAAHE), Albania

2. Accreditation Council (ÖAR), Austria

3. Austrian Fachhochschul-Council (FHR), Austria

4. Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance (AQA), Austria

5. Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance (ADHEQA), Bosnia and Herzegovina

6. National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (NEAA), Republic of Bulgaria

7. Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE), Croatia

8. Accreditation Commission (ACCR), Czech Republic

9. Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA), Estonia

10. Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN), Germany

11. Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften und der mathematic e.v., (ASIIN), Germany

12. Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC), Hungary

13. Accreditation Agency (KAA), Kosovo

14. Higher Education Quality Evaluation Center (HEQEC), Latvia

15. Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC), Lithuania

16. University Accreditation Commission (UKA), Poland

17. Polish State Accreditation Commission (PKA), Poland

18. Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS), Romania

19. National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (NAA)

20. National Center for Public Accreditation (NCPA), Russian Federation

21. Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development, Russian Federation

22. Accreditation Commission of the Slovak Republic, (AC)

23. Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA), Slovenia

24. European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA), headquarters in The Netherlands

Observer Members

25. Foundation for International business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA), Germany

26. Higher Education Accreditation Board, Macedonia

Membership is open to agencies which are recognized as national or regional higher education quality assurance agencies by the lawful authority/ies in their respective CEE country, and which operate on a non-profit and non-commercial basis.