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In Banja Luka, from December 2nd to December 3rd, 2024, within the SMEQA project – Strengthening Capacities and Mechanisms for Enhancement of the Quality Assurance System in Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a conference was held at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka on the key principles and elements of the model for external evaluation in institutional and program accreditation. In addition to representatives from the Higher Education Agency of the Republic of Srpska and other project partners, the conference in Banja Luka was attended by the Director of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) and a member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Quality Assurance (ENQA), Peter Levante Lakatos, who presented ways to apply ESG in different contexts and new trends in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), as well as the Director of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), Aleksandar Susnjar, who spoke about the role of EQAR in the European Higher Education Area.

On Thursday, November 28, 2024, the 17th Scientific and Professional Conference Students Encountering Science, StES 2024, was officially opened in the amphitheater of the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of the University of Banja Luka. This conference is organized by the Student Parliament of the University of Banja Luka with the support of the University of Banja Luka, and under the auspices of the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education of the Republika Srpska. The opening of StES 2024 was attended by representatives of the Student Union of the Republika Srpska, the Student Parliament of the University of Banja Luka, the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education of the Republika Srpska, the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska, the University of Banja Luka, as well as professors and students participating in the scientific conference. This year's scientific conference is attended by more than 150 participants with more than 100 papers submitted.

Representatives of the Higher Education Agency of the Republic of Srpska (AHERS) participated in the third workshop within the SEQA ESG 2 project, organized by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).The workshop, which discussed stakeholder involvement in the work of quality assurance agencies in higher education, was held in Brussels (Belgium) on 27 and 28 October. The workshop participants were representatives of the partner agencies in the project, coming from Azerbaijan (TKTA), Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska (HEA BiH and AHERS), Serbia (NEAQA) and Ukraine (NAQA).

The 50th regular session of the Steering Board of the Agency was held on the premises of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska on November 19 2024.
At the session, the draft Minutes of the 49th regular session of the Steering Board of the Agency, the Statute of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska, the Strategy of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska were discussed and adopted, and the draft of the Regulation on Internal Quality Assurance of the Agency's Work, which also includes the Code of Business Ethics, was also adopted.