The 2011 INQAAHE Biennial Conference will take place in Madrid, Spain, from the 4th to the 7th of April 2011. The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) is hosting this event. The theme is “Quality Assurance: Foundation for the Future”. The conference will celebrate INQAAHE’s 20th anniversary.

The German Accreditation Council and the German Rectors’ Conference jointly organise the Bologna Seminar “The European Dimension of Quality Assurance”. It will take place on 14 March 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

The General Assembly of 2010 introduced a second annual meeting for all members, the so-called Members’ Forum. ENQA’s Members Forum 2011 was organised in cooperation with the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), and was held on 4 March, 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands.

ENQA organised a fourth training session/workshop for experts for agency reviews on 10-11 February 2011 in Helsinki, Finland.

The fifth European Quality Assurance Forum was co-organised by ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE and supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. It was hosted by University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France, on 18 – 20, November 2010.

The Seventh ENQA General Assembly was hosted by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC).

ENQA organised a fifth training session/workshop for experts for agency reviews on 5-6 September 2011 in London, UK.

ENQA, in cooperation with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA, UK), organised a seminar on theme ‘Internal Quality Assurance – Enhancing quality culture’ which was held on 8-9 June, 2010 in London, United Kingdom. This marked the annual meeting of the ENQA IQA Group.

The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEE Netwrok) held its biennial General Assembly meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria on 28 and 29 May 2010.

ENQA, in cooperation with the Magna Charta Observatory of Fundamental University Values and Rights, organised a seminar on quality assurance and transparency in higher education which was held on 17-18 May 2010 in Bologna, Italy.