Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe (ERI SEE), in cooperation with the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia (MSE), and Agency for Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Croatia (AZVO), and supported by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) organised the Workshop on the recognition of higher education qualifications and quality assurance in higher education. The workshop was organised in Zagreb, Croatia, on 25 October and 26 October 2022.

A two-day training on data management for the employees of quality assurance agencies working on the higher education data and those interested in increasing their capacities in the field of data management, organised by the ERI SEE Secretariat, was held on 15 and 16 September 2022 online.

In the period from August – December 2020, the Comparative Study on the existing National Qualifications Frameworks and Recognition of Academic Qualifications, particularly focusing on the Third Cycle Degrees and pre-Bologna qualifications in the Western Balkans 6, was being implemented.

In the period from August – December 2020, agencies for Quality Assurance in higher education in the Western Balkans participated in the external analysis of their quality assurance systems against the European Standards and Guidelines 2015 (ESG).