{"id":10671,"date":"2025-05-17T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esu-online.org\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:21:17","slug":"call-for-students-to-join-esu-quality-assurancestudent-experts-pool-for-the-membership-term2025-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esu-online.org\/call-for-students-to-join-esu-quality-assurancestudent-experts-pool-for-the-membership-term2025-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for students to join ESU Quality Assurance Student Experts Pool for the membership term2025\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Steering Committee of the ESU QA Student Experts Pool hereby opens a call for 90-100 members to join ESU QA Student Experts Pool for the membership term 2025\/2026. All applications must be submitted by the 23rd of June, 2025 at 23:59 CEST, by filling out the following application form <\/a>and uploading the necessary documents.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ESU\u2019s Quality Assurance Student Experts\u2019 Pool<\/a> has been established to promote student engagement in quality assurance and to contribute to the improvement of higher education provision in the European Higher Education Area. It aims to develop ESU as a crucial partner for quality assurance agencies in Europe and to play a leading role in quality assurance policy developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these purposes, members of the pool are trained and can be nominated to participate in quality assurance procedures, e.g. reviews, thus promoting student participation in quality assurance processes across Europe. Through the pool, ESU also undertakes capacity-building and development activities in quality assurance in higher education on the national level, in cooperation with the National Students\u2019 Union members of ESU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the past years, ESU has organised several pieces of training at the European level. So far, ESU has nominated an increasing number of students to take part in various international external evaluations organised by different quality assurance agencies all over Europe. Furthermore, ESU is cooperating with the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association (EUA) and is nominating students for external reviews of quality assurance agencies for the purposes of determining membership in the European Association of Quality Assurance (ENQA) and\/or inclusion in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits of being the member of QA Pool:
<\/strong>\u25cf learning about European higher education;
\u25cf possibility to be involved in quality assurance processes at a programme, institutional, appellate, national, and international level (e.g. evaluations of institutions and quality assurance agencies);
\u25cf possibility to participate in quality assurance governing bodies, such as in those of quality assurance agencies;
\u25cf receiving regular updates about the newest developments in the field of quality assurance;
\u25cf opportunities to attend external quality assurance events;
\u25cf possibilities for networking with other people interested in the topic of quality assurance;
\u25cf opportunities to participate in specially designed pieces of training for experts;
\u25cf opportunities to develop transferable skills, such as communication skills, peer assessment, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tasks and responsibilities that can be expected from ESU QA Pool member:
<\/strong>\u25cf share knowledge and experience in quality assurance;
\u25cf discuss topics in quality assurance and\/or student involvement;
\u25cf identify themselves as members of ESU\u2019s QA Student Experts Pool;
\u25cf act as multiplier agents in their respective countries;
\u25cf promote the ESU\u2019s QA Student Experts\u2019 Pool;
\u25cf disseminate articles and other documents related to quality assurance among student experts in QA at the national and international level;
\u25cf inform the Pool about any quality assurance-related events atinternational level;
\u25cf give feedback on reports, ESU policy papers, or similar documents;
\u25cf provide feedback about reviews, pieces of training and conferences to the Steering Committee of ESU\u2019s QA Student Experts Pool;
\u25cf enhance student participation in quality assurance in higher education;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf attend an introductory training organised for ESU\u2019s QA Student Experts Pool members;
\u25cf contribute towards the preparation of meetings and training
sessions and other different activities to benefit the Pool;
\u25cf contribute to ESU’s solidarity fund to cover administrative costs and support the sustainability of the QA Pool, in case of being remunerated as a consequence of their membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More information in the document below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n