Activities

The Euro-Inf Spread Project aims at:

Pilot accreditations will be conducted for three study programmes (yet to be determined). It is envisaged that these programmes are awarded the first Euro-Inf Quality Labels provided that they are successfully reviewed by a team of EQANIE experts. A short description of the programmes and a summary of results will be published in English language on the Euro-Inf website.

In a second approach, the project results shall be transferred into four national accreditation systems. The objective is to explore ways to feed the results of the Euro-Inf Project into national accreditation systems, both within and beyond the countries represented in the project consortium. Firstly, an analysis of the national standards and/or guidelines for informatics programmes in the respective countries will be conducted. The subsequent work may also include a meeting of project representatives with national stakeholders, on the basis of which recommendations for the usage of Euro-Inf are produced. The accreditation institution then issues a statement, possibly including a commitment to the Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Criteria as reference framework for the assessment of informatics degree programmes. Successful examples of transfer of methods or project results into national contexts will be presented at the final dissemination conference.

A further objective is to disseminate the results of the Euro-Inf Project at at least four external events organised by partners or affiliates, related thematic networks or other relevant stakeholders in the field of informatics. In order to extent access to the Euro-Inf Standards and Criteria beyond those having proficiency of English language, the standards will be translated into the languages of those countries represented in the consortium: Italian, German, Latvian.

To ensure maximum impact and sustainability of the results, the partners will produce a proposal how the benefits Euro-Inf could be transferred to continuous education. The overall impact will be an increasing understanding and commitment to quality assurance in informatics education as well as an increasing transnational comparability and compatibility of qualifications.

The results of the Euro-Inf Project as well as the output of the Euro-Inf Spread Project will be presented at a final dissemination conference at the end of the project period, most probably in early Autumn 2010. The conference venue will be Milano. As Speakers will, among others, be invited the coordinators of those degree programmes that successfully hosted a pilot accreditation visit. The final dissemination conference will also include an award ceremony of the Euro-Inf Quality Label for those programmes that received a positive judgement by the auditing teams and Project Board. Furthermore, representatives from national accreditation systems will be invited to present and discuss field-specific standards and guidelines for the quality assessment of study programmes. Euro-Inf partners will explain the state of the project’s dissemination and exploitation and present the mission and objectives of Euro-Inf and EQANIE.

Euro-Inf Spread will also further refine the European Framework Standards for Informatics. It will, on the one hand, follow the proposal by the Bologna Follow-up-Group for the development of subject-specific descriptors of learning outcomes. On the other hand, it will broaden its scope by developing provisions to guarantee quality and allow accreditation of continuing education and continuous professional development programmes.

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