Study visit in Spain
After successful study visit in Slovakia all the participants moved to Spain where they visited project partners: The Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) in Barcelona and School of Agrifood and Forestry Science and Engineering (ETSEA) in Lleida during February 11 - 14, 2015.
On February 12, 2015, Mr. Josep Grifoll opened the visit with presentation of AQU Catalunya. All information dealt with quality assurence procedures for study programmes, the role of students in QA procedures, quality assurance and employability (Graduate Survey – training, the evaluation of job positions, graduate´s employment, etc.) and quality assurance and the use of indicators (Windatt). In discussion, prof. Garnik, assoc. prof. Repiský, Olga Nefedova and others were speaking about the position of agency and necessity to cooperate with universities and high schools in connection with achievement of their higher competitiveness and how to improve the quality of results.
In afternoon, all participants moved to Lleida. Visit was opened by Mrs. Carma Sala, director of the Quality Office of the University of Lleida. The presentation included the presentation of internal quality assurance strategies in the UdL, including criteria like quality of the program, public information, internal quality system, quality of teaching staff, learning sources, student´s support and academic staff. All information are available website of UdL. Afterwards, Mgr. Carme Sala and Mgr. Josep Grifoll explained the principles of external accreditation of all Spanish universities from 1996 – till now. In 2014, the first external accreditation was carried out at the University of Lleida. Second part of meeting in Lleida dealt with interships in external organizations and work integrated learning (WIL).
At the end of project´s meeting, prof. Dr. Ing. Elena Horská, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management SUA in Nitra (Slovakia) and the main project´s coordinator submitted the proposal of project´s activities in 2015. After discussion, all participants agreed with this proposal.
