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EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education e.V.) is a non-profit association seeking to enhance evaluation and quality assurance of informatics study programmes and education in Europe. It was founded on January 9, 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany. EQANIE develops criteria and procedures for the evaluation and quality assurance in informatics study programmes and education. EQANIE awards the so-called Euro-Inf Quality Label to degree programmes that comply with the Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria. ==Background== EQANIE’s founding is to be seen against the background of the Bologna Process, aiming at the creation of a European Higher Education Area. The association emanated from the informal network of stakeholders involved in the Euro-Inf Project co-financed by the European Union under the Socrates-Programme from 2006 until 2008. The Euro-Inf consortium comprised the German Accreditation Agency ASIIN, Hamburg UAS, the University of Paderborn and the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). The project consortium established and tested the so-called Euro-Inf Framework Standards and Accreditation Criteria for Informatics Programmes in Europe.〔Muth, F. and Mujacic, S., "Results of the first Trial-Accreditations Lessons Learned for the Euro-Inf Project, in: Informatics Education Europe II, Developments in South-East and East Europe", 2007, "()", Retrieved March 24th, 2010〕 The rights of ownership and copyright on the assessment tools developed by the Euro-Inf Project are held by EQANIE. Main objectives of EQANIE in the area of accreditation and quality assessment are: * Improving the quality of educational programmes in informatics; * providing the Euro-Inf Quality Label〔"EQANIE Accreditation Committee invites requests for the Euro-Inf Quality Label, in: www.eua.be, All members & partners news", April 8th, 2010, "()", Retrieved April 12th, 2010〕 for accredited educational programmes in informatics; * facilitating mutual transnational recognition by programme validation and certification; * facilitating recognition by the competent authorities, in accord with the EU directives and other agreements; * increasing mobility of graduates as recommended by the Lisbon Strategy The key principle of Euro-Inf accreditation is that all graduates of a Euro-Inf accredited degree should have undertaken a defined set of learning activities and should have achieved a broadly defined set of learning outcomes. The Framework represents a quality threshold; those degree programmes that have demonstrated compliance are awarded the Euro-Inf Bachelor / Euro-Inf Master Label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EQANIE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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