Developing an Internal Quality Culture in European Universities

Participants included fi fty institutions from twenty-nine countries: of the fifty institutions seven were technical universities three came from the extra-university sector and forty could be classified as “classical” universities.

The aims of the Quality Culture Project were to:

■ Increase awareness for the need to develop an internal quality culture in institutions and promote the introduction of internal quality management to improve quality levels;
■ Ensure the wide dissemination of existing best practices in the fi eld;
■ Help institutions approach external procedures of quality assurance constructively;
■ Contribute to the Bologna process by strengthening the attractiveness of European higher education.