Quality assurance and evaluation of programmes at the University of Bologna -- Quality assurance in United Kingdom higher education. A case study: the London Metropolitan University -- Interlink Project: Evaluation and accreditation systems in Europe. A case study: the Netherlands and Twente University -- Creating a culture of quality: quality assurance at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands -- Evaluation and accreditation in Germany: the case study of the Technische Universität Berlin -- Quality assurance in higher education: the case study of the Stockholm University School of Business -- Quality assurance in higher education. A case study: Helsinki Technical University -- Quality assurance in higher education. A case study: the Deusto University in Bilbao -- Aspects of evaluation and accreditation in higher education in France.

European higher education institutions are facing in these last years a number of relevant political and social changes that have asked for more transparency, accountability, comparability and legitimacy of degrees. In light of these new challenges, the great majority of universities have responded by implementing quality assurance processes, either through evaluation or through accreditation. This book collects the evaluation and accreditation experiences gathered by higher education institutions in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Sweden. It provides a synthetic picture of the present state of quality assurance practices in Europe and offers a few lessons for a future European dimension of quality assurance.