Peer Group A: Qualifications Framework (Umbrella Project)
Thematic Peer Group A
In September 2018, the BFUG formally established this Thematic Peer Group A on Qualifications Framework (TPG A on QF) – more specifically on Key Commitment 1: a three-cycle system compatible with the overarching frameworks of the EHEA and first and second cycle degrees scaled by ECTS – based on the interests and needs indicated by the BFUG members and Consultative members in a survey conducted during the summer of 2018.
Specific thematic indications include topics such as:
- self-certification of the national qualification frameworks the overarching Qualifications Framework of the EHEA,
- complete implementation of the ECTS User’s Guide,
- short cycle higher education,
- multiple purposes and use of the qualifications frameworks by the stakeholders,
- study programmes outside of the Bologna three-cycle structure,
- relationship between the qualifications frameworks and quality assurance.
Action plan of the Thematic Peer Group A on Qualifications Framework (last update on 12.09.2019)
TPG A on QF Meetings
1. First Meeting of the TPG A on QF in Helsinki on 15 January 2019
The members of the Thematic Peer Group met for the first time and discussed the work plan of each single country and the overall work plan of the group.
Documents and presentations of this meeting:
- Minutes of the meeting
- Meeting Agenda
- The Bologna Process key commitments and peer support
- Activities to support implementation of national qualifications frameworks: design, implementation and self-certification
- State of play and next steps: self-certification of national qualification frameworks
- Short-cycle higher education
- European Qualifications Framework and referencing of National Qualifications Frameworks to the EQF: link to the work of the Peer group
- EQF Brochure
- Implementation of the ECTS User’s Guide
- Implementation of the ECTS User’s Guide – handouts
2. Second Meeting of the TPG A on QF in Prague on 3 June 2019
Documents of this meeting:
3. Third Meeting of the TPG A on QF in Prague on 18 February 2020
Other events
- Workshop on self-certification of NQF
Prague on 3 May 2019 - Conference on the Implementation of the ECTS Users’ Guide
Prague on 4 June 2019
Summary and main conclusions of the conference
Presentations of this Conference - Self-Certification Workshop
Strasbourg on 6 September 2019 - PLA (Peer Learning Activity) on National Qualifications Frameworks
Berlin on 21-22 October 2019
Draft Agenda - PLA on Multiple purposes and use of qualifications frameworks by stakeholders
Brussels on 18-19 November 2019
Report from the PLA - Seminar on Current and Future Trends – Linking Qualifications Frameworks and Quality Assurance
Prague on 17 February 2020
Draft Agenda
Objectives:
Team:
Activities:
As an umbrella project for the peer group A focusing on qualifications frameworks, the project is built as a series of activities (meetings, conference and peer learning activities) that provide peer group members with a platform on which they can share their experience, focus on topics of their interests and needs and benefit from mutual learning.
