Call for students to join ESU Quality Assurance Student Experts Pool for the membership term2025/2026
The Steering Committee of the ESU QA Student Experts Pool hereby opens a call for 90-100 members to join ESU QA Student Experts Pool for the membership term 2025/2026. All applications must be submitted by the 23rd of June, 2025 at 23:59 CEST, by filling out the following application form and uploading the necessary documents.
The ESU’s Quality Assurance Student Experts’ Pool has been established to promote student engagement in quality assurance and to contribute to the improvement of higher education provision in the European Higher Education Area. It aims to develop ESU as a crucial partner for quality assurance agencies in Europe and to play a leading role in quality assurance policy developments.
For these purposes, members of the pool are trained and can be nominated to participate in quality assurance procedures, e.g. reviews, thus promoting student participation in quality assurance processes across Europe. Through the pool, ESU also undertakes capacity-building and development activities in quality assurance in higher education on the national level, in cooperation with the National Students’ Union members of ESU.
During the past years, ESU has organised several pieces of training at the European level. So far, ESU has nominated an increasing number of students to take part in various international external evaluations organised by different quality assurance agencies all over Europe. Furthermore, ESU is cooperating with the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association (EUA) and is nominating students for external reviews of quality assurance agencies for the purposes of determining membership in the European Association of Quality Assurance (ENQA) and/or inclusion in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).
Benefits of being the member of QA Pool:
● learning about European higher education;
● possibility to be involved in quality assurance processes at a programme, institutional, appellate, national, and international level (e.g. evaluations of institutions and quality assurance agencies);
● possibility to participate in quality assurance governing bodies, such as in those of quality assurance agencies;
● receiving regular updates about the newest developments in the field of quality assurance;
● opportunities to attend external quality assurance events;
● possibilities for networking with other people interested in the topic of quality assurance;
● opportunities to participate in specially designed pieces of training for experts;
● opportunities to develop transferable skills, such as communication skills, peer assessment, etc.
Tasks and responsibilities that can be expected from ESU QA Pool member:
● share knowledge and experience in quality assurance;
● discuss topics in quality assurance and/or student involvement;
● identify themselves as members of ESU’s QA Student Experts Pool;
● act as multiplier agents in their respective countries;
● promote the ESU’s QA Student Experts’ Pool;
● disseminate articles and other documents related to quality assurance among student experts in QA at the national and international level;
● inform the Pool about any quality assurance-related events atinternational level;
● give feedback on reports, ESU policy papers, or similar documents;
● provide feedback about reviews, pieces of training and conferences to the Steering Committee of ESU’s QA Student Experts Pool;
● enhance student participation in quality assurance in higher education;
● attend an introductory training organised for ESU’s QA Student Experts Pool members;
● contribute towards the preparation of meetings and training
sessions and other different activities to benefit the Pool;
● contribute to ESU’s solidarity fund to cover administrative costs and support the sustainability of the QA Pool, in case of being remunerated as a consequence of their membership.
More information in the document below.