• To offer innovative analyses on case studies of what forms of quality and accountability are emerging between the institution, its region and the state
• To compare issues of quality assessment, evaluation and control across EU countries
• To use seminar and website discussions to give an analytical overview of lifelong learning models for quality and accountability
• To contribute to end of year policy briefing paper for the influence of future policies on HE and quality across Europe in the lead up to EU enlargement.

• Month 21: PL and CZ will liaise with partners over publicity and plans for steering group meeting, seminar presentations, analytical strategies and follow up website discussion.
• Month 22: PL will host the seminar and a steering group meeting. Partners will produce presentations and papers for analytical discussion.
• Month 23: UK-SRHE will produce a time-limited website discussion to explore further the influences and implications for quality in current HE reform activities.
• Month 24: partners will prepare a conference paper.
• Month 25: a ‘brief guide to policy chapter: ‘Governance, relations with the state and quality in HE’.

• Seminar papers: "HE lifelong learning and changing relations with the region and state across Europe" and "Quality assessment of HE as a global problem"
• Report of website discussion to EC and associated networks
• Conference paper: "Steering Change in HE, management implications and quality assurance"
• Chapter for brief guide to policy - "Relations with the State and quality in HE"

The workpackage will provide:

• policy makers, managers and academics with comparative, analytical findings about underlying issues regarding the formulation of quality in HE across European states, in the context of social, political and economic change.
• a framework for the network participants to consider future research collaborations and policy issues in the area of institutional change and quality management.