This workshop will explore how pan-European accreditation networks, more specifically in Engineering and in Informatics, can help improve the quality of teaching and learning on national levels. An additional focus will be on the involvement of stakeholders such as employers and students in the procedures as well as on the requirements and criteria.

A workshop designed for early-stage researchers in engineering and natural sciences is being organised as part of the Research Management Training (ReMaT) project and will take place from 26-27 April 2010 in Hamburg, Germany.

The Santander Group, the Compostela Group of Universities and the UNICA Network will organise a one-day workshop on developing relations between universities and enterprises on 27 April 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.

The National Training Foundation (NTF) is inviting representatives from higher education institutions, national ministries of education, research institutions and other stakeholders in Russia, Europe and beyond, to its annual conference on internationalisation in higher education.

The European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education (ECA) will organise the conference ´Joint Programmes: Too many cooks in the kitchen? Challenges for accreditation, recognition, and transparency´ in Graz, Austria on 10 and 11 June 2010.

The European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities (ESMU) has announced that a conference on ´Benchmarking in European Higher Education´ will take place on 11 June 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.

This international conference, co-organised by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (Politecnico di Torino) and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University), will take place in Torino, Italy, from 28-30 June 2010.

Bahcesehir University will host the third annual International Law Students Association (ILSA) conference on the theme: ‘Discussing Global Issues within the Framework of the United Nations’ from 7-10 July 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Executive Board of the European Quality Assurance Network of Informatics Education, EQANIE, at its meeting on March 15th, 2010, established the EQANIE Accreditation Committee.

As part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles´175th anniversary celebrations, the university is organising a five-day event with presentations from Nobel Prize laureates and winners of the Wolf Prize and Fields Medal from different disciplines including medicine, mathematics, chemistry, physics, literature, law and economics.