On October 2, 2019, The Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Association of Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE). The Memorandum was signed by the Director General Saule Sarsenbayeva on behalf of the ECAQA and by the President Peter Dieter on behalf of the AMSE.

The Association of Medical Schools in Europe was established as The Association of Medical Deans in Europe in 1979. 71 medical schools (universities) in Europe, the UK and the CIS countries are members of the Association. http://www.amse-med.eu/about-amse/

The AMSE seeks to stimulate cooperation between medical schools-members of the association, as well as initiates and maintains relations with other professional, governmental and non-governmental organizations in education, research and health care. The AMSE in cooperation with An International Association for Medical Education (AMEE) creates discussion platforms for medical faculties (universities) to share experiences in education, research and management. From 2004 till 2013, the President of the AMSE was Professor David Gordon who is currently the President of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). Since 2014, the President of the AMSE has been Professor Peter Dieter.

On June 11, 2019, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care, Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, and the Certification Association “Russian Register”, Russian Federation, St. Petersburg (https://rusregister.ru/news/russian-register-and-eurasian-accreditation-center-signed-memorandum-of-cooperation/)

“Russian Register” was established in 2001 and has the largest amount of international, national and sector accreditations, notifications and recognitions among Russian Certification Bodies, including accreditation of the RF Federal Accreditation Service and members of the International Accreditation Forum IAF, which allows its clients to solve any tasks related to business development and entry into new markets by means of ensuring their maximum recognition.

The Mission of “Russian Register” is to help organizations achieve international, national and sector market success by means of providing superior services on expert assessment and certification.

is signed between the Non-profit Organization “Eurasian Сentre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care” (the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty) and the Autonomous non-profit organization “National Centre for Public Accreditation” (the Russian Federation, Yoshkar-Ola) https://ncpa.ru/

The 9th ENQA Members’ Forum, hosted by the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA), took place on 25-26 April 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia.

The Programme chaired by Christoph Grolimund, President of ENQA.

The participants of the ENQA Members’ Forum discussed the draft of ENQA’ Mission, Vision, Values and Strategic Plan and goals for 2021-2015 that focused on the 1) Representing interest of QA Agencies; 2) Providing services to Members; 3) Driving innovation in external QA.

The ENQA’ Members have shared their experience in the ENQA external review and participants identified the strengths, weakness, opportunity and threats of the ENAQ Agency Reviews and its usefulness to development and improvement the QAA.

ENQA Members’ Forum key-note speakers have presented the European University Initiatives and European Commission progress report on quality assurance in higher education; the large-scale changes in society and how to be prepared to the new role for university in the future.

ECAQA is ENQA Affiliate since 2017 and the agency has involved and actively participated at the ENQA international events. ECAQA has specified and adopted the ESG (2015) as well as the WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement in BME, PGME, CPD to the Kazakhstan Medical and Healthcare Professions Education.