The GRAC research group at UVic-UCC was invited to participate in a network meeting called ‘Quality Parameters in International Profiles in Higher Education’. Àngels Pinyana and Sarah Khan represented GRAC at the meetings in Winterthur, Switzerland on 31st March and 1st April.
The meeting in Winterthur was the first of several planned meetings between 2015-2017 to coordinate a joint inter-university project headed by ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) and BFH (Bern University of Applied Sciences), “Developing Quality Management Parameters for International Profiles in Universities of Applied Sciences”, which is funded by SERI (Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation).
This cross-disciplinary project will be headed by a core team of expert advisors in higher education in the fields of International Relations, Quality Management and Applied Linguistics from UVic-UCC, University of Padua and universities of applied sciences from Zurich, Bern, Graz, Munich and Freiburg.
The core team will develop Quality Management Parameters which may be applied across universities and cultural contexts and build up an international network to actively implement sustainable Quality Management Parameters in the future. The final aim of the project is to develop strategic partnerships in order to submit a proposal for an Erasmus Key Action 2+ Mobility Programme in 2017.
