Recognition Tools and Projects

Automatic Recognition

• AdReN - Automatic Recognition in the Adriatic Region
  (EU-funded project with Croatia, Greece, Italy (coordinator) and Slovenia)
• AR-Net - Automatic Recognition in the Networks
  The third version of the EAR-HEI manual and its chapter on Automatic Recognition. (EU-funded project with Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands (coordinator), Norway, Portugal and the United Kingdom)
• DigiRec - Digital Student Data & Recognition
  (EU-funded project with Canada, Estonia, France, Italy, Netherlands (coordinator), Norway, Poland, and Sweden)
• EAR Manual: European Area of Recognition
• EAR HEI Manual: European Recognition Manual for Higher Education Institutions
• I-AR - Implementation of Automatic Recognition in the Networks
  (EU-funded project with Austria, Belgium Flemish Community, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands (coordinator), Norway and Poland)
• PARADIGMS - New Paradigms in Recognition
  (EU-funded project with Belgium Flemish Community, Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands (coordinator), Norway, Portugal and Slovenia)
• Q-Entry - International Database on Higher Education Entry Qualifications
  (EU-funded project with France, Ireland, Italy (coordinator), Latvia and Norway), followed by qENTRY+ (EU-funded project with Belgium Flemish Community, Bulgaria, Italy (coordinator), The Netherlands and Poland)

• AR25 - Automatic Recognition in the EEA, 2025 
  (EU-funded project with Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands (coordinator), Norway, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ukraine, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, European Consortium for Accreditation in Higher Education and European University Association)

• Araqua - Road to Automatic Recognition of Higher Education Access Qualifications
  (EU-funded project with Armenia, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia (coordinator), Malta, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, National Centre for Education of the Republic of Latvia (associated partner)

• DIGI-AR - Digital Tools for Implementation of Automatic Recognition
  (EU-funded project with Lithuania (coordinator), Latvia, the Netherlands, Belgium Flemish Community, Belgium German-speaking Community)

• DigiLink - Advancing digital solutions in recognition data sharing
  (EU-funded project with Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, The Netherlands (coordinator), Poland, Sweden, Groningen Declaration Network, Unit – ​the Norwegian Directorate​ for ICT and Joint Services ​in Higher Education & Research and The Corporation of the Council of Ministers of Education Canada
• MAReN - Mediterranean Automatic Recognition Network
  (EU-funded project with Croatia, France, Italy (coordinator) Portugal and Spain)

Academic Recognition

Canada

• CICIC - Academic Credential Assessment Community Tool Box (EN, FR)

Council of Europe

• European Qualifications Passport for Refugees

Italy

• BRIDGE Handbook: Joint Programmes and Recognition of Joint Degrees
  (EU-funded project with Estonia, Italy (coordinator), Malta, Portugal and Spain)
• FRAUDOC - Guidelines on Diploma Mills and Document Fraud for Credential Evaluators
  (EU-funded project with Belgium-Flanders, Denmark, Estonia, Italy (coordinator), Portugal and Sweden)

Netherlands

• FAIR - Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition
  (EU-funded project with Belgium - Flemish Community, Croatia, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands (coordinator) and Spain)
• STREAM - Streamlining Institutional Recognition: A training platform for admissions officers
  (EU-funded project with Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands (coordinator) and the United Kingdom)

Norway

• Refugees and Recognition - Toolkit for recognition of higher education for refugees, displaced persons and persons in a refugee-like situation 
  

  (EU-funded project with France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway (coordinator) and the United Kingdom) followed by REACT - Refugees and Recognition (EU-funded project with Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Norway (coordinator)), ARENA - Refugees and Recognition Toolkit 3 (EU-funded project with Belgium Flemish Community, Greece, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway (coordinator) and EQUAL - European Qualifications - Refugees and Recognition 4 (EU-funded project with Norway (coordinator), Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Lithuania)

Projects on Quality Assurance

Italy

• DEQAR - Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR)
  (EU-funded project coordinated by EQAR involving stakeholders and e.g. the Italian ENIC-NARIC) 

Lithuania

• LIREQA: Linking Academic Recognition and Quality Assurance [Recommendations]
  (EU-funded project with Belgium, France, Latvia, Lithuania (coordinator), The Netherlands, Norway, and Spain)

Netherlands

• IMPACT - Quality and Impact of the Recognitions Networks
  (EU-funded project with Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands (coordinator) and the United Kingdom)
• “Standards & Guidelines” for the networks were developed over many years by a large group of ENIC-NARICs and quality assurance experts, with co-funding from the European Commission (EARN, SQUARE and IMPACT projects). The Standards & Guidelines were adopted by the centres of the ENIC-NARIC networks during their annual meeting 2019 in Cologne.

United Kingdom

• Charona II - The Changing Role of NARICs
  (EU-funded project with Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom (coordiator))

Databases on Higher Education Systems and Qualifications

Australia

• Country Education Profiles – CEP (EN)

Bulgaria

• Information System on Pre-Bologna Academic Qualifications
  (EU-funded project with Bulgaria (coordinator), Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Polands, Romania and Armenia)

Canada

• CICIC Terminology Guide for Academic Credential Assessment in Canada (EN, FR)
• Alberta International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) - Education Overview Guides (EN)

Denmark

• Facts about qualifications and assessments (EN, DK)

Germany

• ANABIN Database (DE)

Ireland

• International Qualifications Database (EN)

Italy

• University systems database (IT)
• CIMEA - MAGNA CUM LAUDE: A worldwide database of University Grading Systems (EN)
• FraudSCAN - False Records, Altered University Diploma Samples Collection and Alert for NARICs
  (EU-funded project with Belgium Flemish Community, Denmark, Estonia, Italy (coordinator), The Netherlands and Sweden), followed by FraudS+ - False Records, Altered Diploma and Diploma Mills Qualifications Collection (EU-funded project with France, Germany, Ireland, Italy (coordinator), The Netherlands and Sweden)
• SCAN-D & SCAN-D2 - Samples & Copies of Academic National Diplomas
  (EU-funded project with Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium Flemish Community, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy (coordinator), Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine)

Netherlands

• Country Modules (EN, NL)

Norway

• Higher Education Entrance Qualification for Persons with Foreign Education - The GSU-list (EN, NO)

Poland

• NAWA Kwalifikator (EN, PL)

Sweden

• Qualifications Assessment Tool (EN, SE)

Other projects

Italy

• MARTe - A technological approach to micro-credentials
  (EU-funded project with Ireland, Italy (coordinator), the Netherlands)

Latvia

• OCTRA - Online course catalogues and databases for transparency and recognition (EU-funded project with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia (coordinator), Poland, BA School of Business and Finance (Latvia) and Council of Rectors of Latvia), followed by OCTRA 2 “Online course catalogues and databases for transparency and recognition 2” (EU-funded project with Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Ireland, Latvia (coordinator), Poland, Romania, BA School of Business and Finance (Latvia) and Council of Rectors of Latvia)

Netherlands

• ONREQ22-24 - NARIC Online training course 2022-24
  (EU-funded project with the Netherlands (coordinator), Latvia and Poland)

Norway

• Bravo - Bridging a European Network for Recognition of Vocational Qualifications (EQF 4 and 5) 
  (EU-funded project with Norway (coordinator), Lithuania, Sweden)

Other recognition instruments

• ETINED – Council of Europe Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education
• Countering Education Fraud – Council of Europe's New Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)18 and explanatory memorandum