Today, quality assurance and recognition of joint programs still is a major challenge. The conference "Quality Assurance and Recognition of Joint Programmes: The Art and the Passion" provides higher education institutions, recognition authorities, quality assurance and accreditation agencies, and policy makers with the latest update on the solutions developed by the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA) in the framework of the JOQAR project. 

The JOQAR project is co-funded by the European Commission and is the acronym of: Joint programmes - Quality Assurance and Recognition of degrees awarded. The Conference will take place on 20 and 21 June 2013 at Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA), Madrid, Spain.