EQAVET
HAKA (until June 2022 EKKA) has been a member of the EQAVET network, participating in working groups and thus contributing to drafting the quality assurance principles and guidelines, as well as sharing experiences with member states about the functioning and development of internal and external evaluation of VET.
The EQAVET website gives an overview of the quality assurance system in Estonian vocational education and examples of its application in our VET. Read more about Estonian cases here.
The EKKA conceptual framework for evaluating the quality of vocational education complies with the EQAVET guidelines and recommendations of the Cedefop experts. Quality assessment of vocational education as an external evaluation conducted by independent evaluators on the basis of internal evaluation is a part of the VET quality assurance process.
Project: Promoting the use of Transnational Peer Reviews by updating the criteria
Action Grant EQAVET – European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training National Reference Points
Agreement number – 2019-0493/001-001 Project Nr 609143-EPP-1-2019-1-FI-EPPKA3-EQAVET-NRP
Project duration: 01.04.2019–31.03.2021
Joint activity with Finland, Slovenia and Croatia and Estonia
Expected results:
- The updated version of criteria for quality areas for Transnational Peer Reviews in line with the EAQVET framework, EQAVET + and newest developments on the topic.
- Transfer strategy (including transfer strategy for participating country) and monitoring plan to assure the use of the criteria and Peer Reviews at VET provider level.
- Promotion materials to promote use of Peer Reviews and to guide to use of the criteria.
- Trainings for transnational peers and national peers. The number of trained peers for transnational Peer Reviews has increased in partner countries.
- Deepening of the culture of quality assurance in VET by focusing on the importance of feedback loops and the review phase of the quality cycle by VET providers and EQAVET NRPs.
Follow-up: EQAVET NRP 2021 – 2023, Project ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EQAVET-IBA
Joint activity with Croatia, Finland, Slovenia and Estonia: Promoting the use of Transnational Peer Reviews
European Peer Review Quality Areas and Criteria for Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Presentations from the training of 31 May 2022
About the Peer Review project (Riikka Vacker)
Peer Review as a method (Tiina Halmenvuo)
EQAVET NRP project 2023-2026
A joint EQAVET project involving Croatia, Estonia, Finland, and Slovenia promotes transnational Peer Reviews among VET providers. The aim for the new project period is to update the European Peer Review Quality Areas and Criteria for VET.
EQAVET webinars and seminars
Transnational Peer Review criteria workshop, 26. September 2024
The objective of the workshop was to increase understanding of VET providers ́ practical perspectives on sustainability and its dimensions of quality, and to get information on what should be developed and in which direction in criteria.
Transnational Peer Review seminar and training, 10. October 2024
The online seminar was organised as a part of joint activity of the EQAVET NRP 2023-2026
project and the goal of it was to promote the European Peer Review methodology at VET
provider level to everyone interested in it and also prepare the four VET providers for their
own peer reviews in 2025.
