ECA's fall seminar was organised in The Hague on 14 December 2010. The main topic of this seminar was the assessment of internationalisation.

The seminar started with the signing of the Multilateral Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Accreditation Results regarding Joint Programmes (MULTRA). The purpose of the MULTRA is to simplify the accreditation and recognition of joint programmes and degrees awarded and to provide an efficient way to expand mutual recognition to more European Higher Education Area countries. The MULTRA was signed by the agencies FHR and ÖAR (Austria), NVAO (The Netherlands and Flanders) and PKA (Poland). The agencies ANECA (Spain) and CTI (France) have agreed to sign as well, some other agencies will follow later.
In addition, 4 bilateral mutual recognition agreements were prolonged and signed.

The start of the new ECA projects E-TRAIN and JOQAR was explained. More information on these projects is available here:
http://www.ecaconsortium.net/main/projects/e-train
http://www.ecaconsortium.net/main/projects/joqar

The NVAO pilots regarding the assessment of internationalisation were presented and discussed. The participants from ECA agreed that they will strive for a ECA certificate regarding internationalisation and that they will undertake pilot projects in different European countries to test the methodology.