Austrian quality assurance agency

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The Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance , English Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance ( AQA ) was one as an association ( ZVR organized Agency for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Austria 300851683).

The AQA was created in 2003 and was brought into being in the course of implementing the Bologna Process ; In 2004 it started its work. Before the establishment of the AQA, accreditation institutions for universities of applied sciences and private universities already existed with the University of Applied Sciences Council and the Austrian Accreditation Council. The newly founded AQA was set up next to these authorities and has no accreditation authority itself, neither with respect to public universities - for which accreditation is not provided in Austria at all - nor with respect to universities of applied sciences and private universities, for which the University of Applied Sciences Council and the Austrian Accreditation Council remained responsible.

In 2009 the AQA acquired the authorization to carry out system accreditation in Germany according to the guidelines of the German Accreditation Council ; the authority ended on March 21, 2014.

In 2011, the Higher Education Quality Assurance Act (HS-QSG) was passed as part of the Quality Assurance Framework Act (QSRG) , which provided for the merging of the AQA, the University of Applied Sciences and the Accreditation Council to form an agency for quality assurance and accreditation Austria . The Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria started its work on March 1st, 2012. The AQA remained in place as it still had to fulfill commitments that had already been made and its tasks were gradually transferred to the new agency.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior, extract from the association register for ZVR number 300851683.
  2. ^ Austrian Quality Assurance Agency, Organization of AQA ( Memento of August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 5, 2012
  3. ^ German Accreditation Council: Press release of June 4, 2013 (PDF; 73 kB), accessed on July 22, 2013.
  4. ^ Homepage of the AQA ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )