evalag

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Evalag ( Evaluation Agency Baden-Württemberg ) ( spelling : evalag) is a foundation under public law and was founded in 2000 on the basis of agreements between the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg and the universities of the state. The office is in Mannheim .

As a competence center for quality assurance and quality development , Evalag supports German and international universities, other scientific institutions and ministries in their commitment to quality in study and teaching, research and services. For this purpose , the agency coordinates and accompanies evaluation procedures , carries out audits for institutional quality assurance, advises on quality management and organizational development, coordinates assessment procedures in the context of science funding and is active in the field of applied university research. Evalag works on the basis of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).

The agency is a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and has been approved by the Accreditation Council as an accreditation agency since October 2009 and has also been registered in the European Register for Quality Assurance in Higher Education since May 2010. Evalag carries out assessments of courses and of quality management systems in studies and teaching at all types of universities.

literature

  • Marco Siever: Quality assurance through program and system accreditation in the German university system: with special consideration of the legal situation in Baden-Württemberg (series of publications on university law; Vol. 2) (Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2011) . Kovač, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-8300-5787-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Articles of Association of the evalag Foundation in the version dated June 17, 2015 (Journal of Laws of July 13, 2015, No. 14, p. 633)
  2. ^ Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area. For the German edition: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Ed.). Second, modified edition, Bonn 2015. In: Contributions to University Policy 3/2015