Welcome to your competence team for quality assurance!

Welcome to ZEvA! We are one of the most experienced and versatile agencies in Germany when it comes to programme accreditation, system accreditation, evaluation and certification, with 27 years of know-how in the field of teaching and learning in higher education. We are looking forward to your commissions!

What we can do for you? ZEvA's trademarks are: external quality assurance and quality development in the field of teaching and learning as well as higher education management. Since 1995, we have been working successfully with higher education institutions in Germany, Europe and beyond in the area of quality assurance. In addition to experienced advisors, a large number of nationally and internationally recognised experts are of service to you.

Our key tasks

For many years, ZEvA has been offering national and international accreditation of study programmes, institutional procedures such as system accreditation, quality audits or institutional accreditations, evaluation of teaching and learning, certification of continuing education, validation of non-university education programmes and consulting in all concerns of quality assurance of studies and teaching.

Programme accreditation

Accreditation of study programmes in individual or cluster procedures

System accreditation

The accreditation of quality management systems at higher education institutions

Certification & Validation

Certification of higher education, validation of non-university education, and CeQuint assessments

Evaluation

Evaluation of teaching and learning in Lower Saxony

International procedures

Accreditation of study programmes and institutions abroad and quality audits in Austria

What moves us

English Version of Thematic Analysis on International Accreditations

ZEvA has just published an English translation of last year’s thematic analysis on international accreditations by our colleagues Anja Grube and Malte Huylmans under the title "International Accreditation in the European Higher Education Area: Findings from Review Reports & Decisions of German Speaking Quality Assurance Agencies". By publishing the translation, we are offering our findings on the work of German-speaking accreditation agencies in the European Higher Education to a borader p

Published on:
01. February 2024, 08:05

Das ZEvA-Veranstaltungsprogramm für das 1. Quartal 2024 ist online!

Das Veranstaltungsangebot der ZEvA für das 1. Quartal 2024 steht nun fest und ist auf der Website der Agentur unter "Veranstaltungen" abrufbar. Neben unseren bewährten Einführungsseminaren für Gutachtende und antragstellende Hochschulen steht diesmal mit der Abschlusstagung zur Förderlinie "Innovation Plus" auch eine große zweitägige Präsenzveranstaltung speziell für die niedersächsischen Hochschulen auf dem Programm. Darüber hinaus erprobt die ZEvA mit der „Offenen Sprechstunde S

Published on:
09. January 2024, 06:22

Henning Schäfer re-elected as Managing Director of the Foundation

On December 14, the Board of Trustees re-elected Henning Schäfer as Managing Director of the Foundation for a further five-year term of office. Mr. Schäfer took over the position of Managing Director in 2019, succeeding Hermann Reuke. He had previously worked at ZEvA in programme accreditation since 2005, initially as a project officer, from 2009 as head of department and from 2015 as deputy managing director. Together with the Scientific Director, a position provisionally filled out by Prof.

Published on:
15. December 2023, 06:14

New Thematic Analysis on Topics, Trends and Perspectives for 2022

ZEvA has published a new thematic analysis entitled "2022: Themen, Trends und Perspektiven". On the one hand, the publication offers a review of ZEvA's work in 2022 and, on the other hand, contains short "impulses" analyzing individual topics that were of particular importance in 2022 and are of general interest. In this way, ZEvA aims to make a contribution to the further development of external quality assurance in teaching and learning and to provide universities and agencies with suggestions

Published on:
13. December 2023, 14:51

Exciting Webinar Alert!

Join us on Tuesday, December 19th, at 13:00 (local time: UCT+5.00) for a special session jointly hosted by ZEvA - Zentrale Evaluations- und Akkreditierungsagentur and Tashkent State Transport University: "Promoting Internationalization – Increasing Quality: An Introduction to European Standards for Quality Assurance in Higher Education." What to expect: - Insights into the Bologna Process, its core contents and objectives - Why to implement Bologna Standards - How to implement Bologna Standar

Published on:
07. December 2023, 06:59

We are excited to welcome another Ukrainian agency as a new partner in our network

ZEvA has closed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Kiev-based agency ACEQ. We are looking forward to working together in a continuous process of mutual learning and support. Futher cooperations of ZEvA

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14. November 2023, 13:50

Seminarprogramm der ZEvA für das Jahr 2024

Wir geben Ihnen eine Vorschau auf unser Seminarprogramm für das Jahr 2024. Welche spannenden Themen Sie aus den Bereichen Programmakkreditierung, Systemakkreditierung und Zertifizierung erwarten, das sehen Sie HIER.

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14. November 2023, 13:07

Neue thematische Analyse zu internationalen Akkreditierungen

ZEvA has just published a new a thematic analysis entitled " Internationale Akkreditierung im Europäischen Hochschulraum: Befunde aus Gutachten & Beschlüssen deutschsprachiger Qualitätssicherungsagenturen" by our colleagues Anja Grube and Malte Huylmans. The paper provides an overview of the findings of German-speaking accreditation agencies in the European Higher Education Area, for the first time. It is now available in German as volume 3 in the series "Studies on Quality Management in

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19. October 2023, 17:09

Neue wissenschaftliche Leitung der ZEvA

ZEvA welcomes Prof. Dr. Katja Koch and Dr. Marion Rieken to our Executive Board. They have been appointed as Provisional Scientific Directors by ZEvA's Foundation Council until the appointment process for the position is completed. Ms. Koch is Vice President for Organizational Development & Teacher Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Ms. Rieken is Vice President for Human Resources and Finance at the University of Vechta.

Published on:
19. October 2023, 16:40

Expert seminar on 13/01/2023

The next seminar will take place on November 23, 2023 in the form of a webinar via Zoom. It starts at 3:00 p.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. As is usual in our expert seminars, we begin by focusing on the process and criteria of program accreditation, including some innovations. We also want to exchange experiences, problems and, of course, solutions. In a second part, the internationalization of study programs is discussed. The basis here is the catalog of criteria according to CeQuInt (Certificate f

Published on:
12. September 2023, 13:24

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