Brief Description

Quality assurance is a comprehensive process that ensures the continuous review, enhancement, and standardization of educational offerings to uphold quality, equity, and efficiency. It focuses on safeguarding educational standards and driving improvements across various educational contexts, both within Europe and globally. In 2025, as the educational landscape evolves, building robust quality assurance systems remains vital for delivering high-quality education and enabling seamless learner mobility across Europe.

Access to quality education is a critical driver of economic growth, social cohesion, and innovation, while also significantly enhancing individual personal development. The European Union actively shapes the quality assurance framework across all levels of education, fostering a culture of excellence that promotes mutual learning and consensus-building. This collaborative approach encourages the development of common principles, reference criteria, indicators, and tools to continuously improve educational quality and support innovation in teaching and learning. By integrating innovation into educational practices, we ensure that systems are adaptable, responsive, and capable of meeting the needs of future learners and a rapidly changing world.

Impact at EU level

Taking the policies and programmes of the European Union into consideration different target groups are impacted from assuring the high quality of the education system in the EU:

• Society: Students at all education levels, adults who need to improve their skills
• Education: Schools, Vocational and Higher Education Institutes
• Business: Employers, employers organizations in order to find more skilled workforce

Researches and Studies in the field

1. European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1536&langId=en
2. Better learning for Europe’s young people: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/1361c84b-80c8-11e8-ac6a-01aa75ed71a1
3. Principles and Guidelines for Quality Assurance of the European Area of Higher Education (ESG 2015): https://www.enqa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ESG_2015.pdf
4. Assuring quality in education: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4a2443a7-7bac-11e5-9fae-01aa75ed71a1
5. Social Investment Package: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1169&langId=en