🎓 QUARTZ: two and a half years of building quality in Uzbek higher education

QUARTZ (Quality Assurance for Reform and Transformation of Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan) is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project. Its mission is to link Uzbek universities with the labour market through quality.

📌 At a glance:
• 3 years (April 2024 – March 2027)
• 6 partner universities from Uzbekistan, Italy and Bulgaria
• 7 work packages, from analysis to sustainability
• €308,137 in EU funding

🎯 Our objectives:
1⃣ Improve quality assurance, digital literacy and skills
2⃣ Equip academic and administrative staff to advance higher education
3⃣ Develop QA strategies, procedures and tools for competitiveness and social cohesion
4⃣ Modernise university governance and strengthen QA units
5⃣ Build a sustainable quality assurance network of partners

🗺️ Our journey so far: Varna → Urgench → L'Aquila → Samarkand → L'Aquila → Tashkent, along with multiplication trainings and QA strategy seminars for staff across Uzbekistan.

🤝 Thanks to our consortium: Tashkent Kimyo International University (coordinator), Central Asian University, Silk Road International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, Tashkent University of Information Technologies – Urgench Branch, University of L'Aquila and Varna University of Management.

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