Code of Good Practice

The Code of Good Practice lays down a set of standards and good practices regarding the member accreditation organisations of ECA. The Code additionally serves to support the internal quality assurance policies of ECA's members.

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Principles for the Selection of Experts

The selection of external experts is of key importance for any external quality assurance procedure. ECA members have agreed on a set of principles. These encompass among others the rules and regulations of the member agencies; transparency; authority; independence; confidentiality and objectivity.

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Joint Declaration concerning the Automatic Recognition of Qualifications

This Declaration is also called the Vienna Sententia. Members of ECA and the corresponding ENIC-NARICs of their countries signed this document in 2005. In it they lay down the preconditions that have to be met to start recognising each other's qualifications automatically.

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Principles for accreditation procedures regarding joint programmes

In order to increase mutual trust and transparency, the members of ECA have agreed on the following principles regarding accreditation procedures for joint programmes.

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Principles regarding learning outcomes in accreditation procedures

The members of ECA agree that learning outcomes have to taken into account during any assessment procedure in higher education. This contributes to the mutual recognition of accreditation decisions.
In order to increase mutual trust and transparency, the members of ECA concur that accreditation procedures should take into an agreed set of principles.

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