• Overarching Framework for Qualifications in the EHEA[PDF],

adopted at the Bergen Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education,

19-20 May 2005

• A Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area[PDF]

Report of the Bologna Working Group on Qualifications Frameworks, February 2005

 

National Frameworks

in Europe

 

Within the Bologna Process — whose aim it is to establish a European Higher Education Area by 2010 —, participating countries have committed to elaborating national qualifications frameworks by 2010 and to launch this work by 2007. Countries have been invited to carry out self-certification exercises to verify the compatibility with the overarching framework of qualifications of the European Higher Education Area. As these self-certification exercises are completed, the self-certification reports will be published here.

 

Self-certification reports

• Belgium: Flemish Community, February 2009,[PDF]
• Denmark, 2009,[PDF]
• Germany, September 2008,[PDF],  [English] [German]
• Ireland, November 2006,[PDF]
• Netherlands, February 2009,[PDF]
• Portugal, May 2011,[PDF]
• Romania, November 2011,[PDF]
• United Kingdom
  • England, Wales and Northern Ireland, November 2008[PDF]
  • Scotland, December 2006[PDF]

Web sites

• Andorra:Andorran Framework for Diplomas in Higher Education(MATES)
• Belgium:National Qualifications Framework (Flemish Community)(NQF)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina:The Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatia:Croatian Qualifications Framework(CROQF)
• Denmark:Danish Qualifications Framework
• Estonia:Estonian Higher Education Qualifications Framework
• Ireland:National Framework of Qualifications(NFQ)
• Italy:Italian Qualifications Framework for the Higher Education(QTI)
• Lithuania:Lithuanian Qualifications Framework(LQF)
• Malta:Malta Qualifications Framework(NQF)
• Netherlands:National Qualifications Framework(NQF)
• Portugal:The Framework for Higher Education Qualifications(FHEQ)
• Slovenia:Slovenian Qualifications Framework(SQF)
• Sweden:National Qualifications Framework(NQF)
• Switzerland:Qualifications Framework of the Swiss Higher Education Area(nqf.ch-HS)
• Turkey:National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education(NQF-HETR)
• United Kingdom:National Qualifications Framework(NQF)
  • Scotland:Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework(SCQF)

outside Europe

• Australia:Australian Qualifications Framework(AQF)
• Canada: Canadian Degree Qualifications Framework- Ministerial Statement on Quality Assurance of Degree Education in Canada [English] [Français]
• Ontario:Ontario Qualifications Framework[English] [Français]
• New Zealand:National Qualifications Framework(NQF)

Related Resources

within the Bologna Process

• National Qualifications Frameworks Development and Certification,

Report from BolognaWorking Group on Qualifications Frameworks, 2007

[PDF]

• Bologna Conference on Qualifications Frameworks

Danish Bologna Seminar, January 13-14, 2005

General Report[PDF]

• Qualification Structures in European Higher Education

Danish Bologna Seminar, 27-28^thMarch 2003

Background Report[PDF]

Conference Report[PDF]

within the European Union

The European Qualifications Framework (EQF): a new way to understand qualifications across Europe

Press Release, Brussels, 5 September 2006