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EQANIE invites to a workshop on Quality Assurance for Study Programmes in Informatics taking place in Prague on October 11^th, 2010. The event is colocated with the European Computer Science Summit 2010 organised by Informatics Europe on October 12^th and 13^th, 2010.

The new Chair and Vice Chair of the EQANIE Accreditation Committee have been elected. Prof Dr. Roland Ibbet will take office as the Committee’s new chair and Prof. Dr. Manfred Nagl as Vice Chair. First accreditation procedures have already commenced. 

At its meeting on March 15th, 2010, the Executive Board of the European Quality Assurance Network of Informatics Education, EQANIE, established the EQANIE Accreditation Committee. Higher Education Institutions are now called upon to submit requests for the award of the Euro-Inf Quality Label.

At the meeting of its General Assembly on March 15th, 2010, in Milan, the European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education, EQANIE, welcomed the Spanish National Conference of Deans and Directors for Universities’ Schools of Informatics, CODDI, as new member.

To the purpose of disseminating and further developing the results of the Euro-Inf Project, ASIIN has received support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union in launching the follow-up project “Euro-Inf Spread”.

EQANIE has cleared the ground for the accreditation of informatics/computer science study programmes of European Higher Education Institutions: at its recent meeting on July 2, 2009, the EQANIE Board adopted European framework standards and accreditation criteria for informatics programmes.