Project title: Quality Assurance System in Ukraine: Development on the Base of ENQA Standards and Guidelines
Reference: 562013-EPP-1-2015-1-PLEPPKA2-CBHE-SP
Project acronym: QUAERE
Priority: Modernisation of policies, governance and management of HE systems
Project duration: 15.10.2015 – 15.10.2017
EU funding instrument: European Neighbourhood Instrument (Erasmus+: КА2 CBHE)
Erasmus+ (CBHE) grant amount: 717 000.00 EUR

Target groups: Higher Education Community in Ukraine

Grantholder: Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Coordinator: Mariusz MAZURKIEWICZ, PhD

Contacts:
Phone: +48 69 196 81 76
E-mail: [email protected]

Partnership:

• Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
• Koblenz-Landau University, Germany
• Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania
• University of Patras, Greese
• The Network University, Nethterlands
• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
• Sumy State University, Ukraine
• Khmelnitski National University, Ukraine
• National Mining University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
• Berdyansk Pedagogical University, Ukraine
• Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ukraine
• Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine
• Odesa I.I. Mechkikov National University, Ukraine
• Educational and Methodical Centre of QA, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Ukrainian Association of Student Self Government, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Project goal:

Contribution to Ukrainian Higher Education Space by implementation the best practices in term of quality assurance in HEIs, based on ENQUA standards.

Specific project objectives:

• To develop tools ensuring functioning of internal and external QA systems.
• To build on the capacity of HEIs and Ministry of HE through training of staff to use QA tools.
• Еstablishment of organizational QA infrastructure and piloting internal and external QA models.
• To promote student involvement in university self-assessment processes.
• To make the self-assessment mechanism an integral part of university functioning.

Activities:

• Preparation of report on monitoring of extant state of Ukrainian QA system and/or its attributes.
• Preparation of analytical review of legal environment that regulates QA in Ukrainian higher education.
• Preparation of research report on results of surveys to Ukrainian HEIs on structure and functionality of internal QA systems.
• Preparation of analytical report on EU partners and EU countries experience in QA.
• Mapping existing QA system to new legal frame and EU best practices.
• Development of training package and trainings for staff responsible for QA on internal and external levels.
• Development of a typical model of QA and it’s implementation in organisational structure at HEIs.
• Creation of Guidelines on policies and procedures for external QA system.
• Development of Guidelines (methodology)for HEIs on structure, functions and procedures of internal QA system.
• Development of road maps, QA policies, procedures, tools; standards and criteria for HEI self-assessment on institutional levels.
• Pilot implementation of QA tools at partner universities.
• Evaluation of the newly developed tools and mechanisms in QA.
• Adoption of HEI strategy and procedures for QA.
• Design of recommendations to national, external QA regulations and procedures for evaluation.

Expected results:

• Creating and experimental implement control models of the higher education quality as the intergrate system of the procedures and tools into the Ukrainian universities.
• The qualified employees, who will be responsible for providing the higher education quality on the internal and the external levels.
• Producing and sharing «the Roadmaps» and the Strategies of internal and external systems of providing the higher education quality.
• Development, modernization and providing with Ukrainian universities their own systems of providing the higher education quality, using new European approaches, ways and methods of providing the higher education quality.
• Marking results of providing the higher education quality by experts from independent.
• European agencies on the national and local levels.
• Distributing results of the project.

Project Coordinator in Ukraine

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
www.lnu.edu.ua 

Phone: +380 32 239 40 10

Responsible person: Vitaliy KUCHARSKYY, Vice-Rector for Research, Teaching and Informatisation

Contacts:
Phone: +380 32 239 40 40
E-mail: [email protected]

Partners from Ukraine

Sumy State University
http://sumdu.edu.ua/ 

Phone/fax: +380 54 233 00 24

Responsible person: Kostiantyn KYRYCHENKO, Head of the International Affairs Office

Contacts:
Phone: +380 54 233 10 81
Fax: +380 54 233 10 81
E-mail: [email protected] 

Khmelnytskyi National University
https://khmnu.edu.ua/ 

Phone/fax: (03822) 4 11 92, (03822) 2 32 65

Responsible person: Svitlana GRYGORUK, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Social Informatics

Contacts:
Phone: +380 32 274 01 80
E-mail: [email protected] 

National Mining University
www.nmu.org.ua/ 

Phone: +380 562 744 73 39
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Olena CHURIKANOVA, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Finances and Economics

Contacts:
E-mail: [email protected] 

Berdyansk Pedagogical University
http://bdpu.org/

Phone/fax: +380 61 533 62 44
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Ihor LYMAN, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Full Professor

Contacts:
Phone: +38 097 506 72 30
E-mail: [email protected] 

Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University
www.univ.kiev.ua/ 

Phone: +380 44 239 32 20
Fax: +380 44 239 31 00
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Andrii HOZHYK, Director of Scientific Educational and Methodological Centre

Contacts:
Phone: +38 044 239 32 50
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Volodymyr ZASLAVSKI, Full Professor, Deputy Dean for International Relations Faculty of Cybernetics

Contacts:
E-mail: [email protected] 

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
www.chnu.edu.ua   

Phone: +380 372 52 62 35
Fax: +380 372 55 29 14
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Ihor CHEREVKO, Full Professor, Head Department of Mathematical Modelling

Contacts:
Phone: +380 50 156 35 41
E-mail: [email protected]

Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University
Institute of Social Science
www.onu.edu.ua/ 

Responsible person: Serhii HLEBOV, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations

Contacts:
Phone: +380 66 789 08 22; 048 723 52 54
E-mail: [email protected] 

Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
www.mon.gov.ua 

Phone: 044 481 32 21
Fax: 044 236 10 49
E-mail: [email protected]

Responsible person: Alla RUBALKO, Head of the Department of University Education

Contacts:
Phone/fax: +380 44 481 32 36
E-mail: [email protected] 

Ukrainian Association of Student Self-Government
www.uass.org.ua/

Contacts:
Phone/fax: +380 44 383 58 23
E-mail: [email protected] 

Educational and Methodical Centre of QA, Kyiv
http://ak.gov.ua/ 

Contacts:
Phone/fax: +380 44 456 85 62; +380 44 456 85 62, +380 44 204 98 06, +380 44 456 85 67
E-mail: [email protected] 

Project website: http://quaere.pwr.edu.pl/  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qualityassurancesystem/