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The first annual meeting of the project consortium within the SEQA-ESG 2 project was held online on March 7, 2024. Project partners discussed upcoming activities in the next year of the project. The activities include the organization of four workshops (one each in Belgrade and Novi Sad and two in Brussels) on the topics regarding the fulfillment of certain ESG requirements that were identified during peer counselling meetings held with each of the agencies participating in the project, as well as the staff mobility between agencies to acquire new knowledge and learning based on good practices of full members of ENQA.
As a reminder, the peer counselling meeting with the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska was held on December 5, 2023, and the following activity is the development of an action plan based on the recommendations of ENQA and EQAR experts from the peer counselling meeting.

The 46th 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 February 12, 2024.

The following documents were discussed and adopted at the session: the Agency's Work Report for 2023, the Agency’s Financial Report and the Explanation of the Financial Report for 2023, the Work Plan of the Agency with the Financial Plan for 2024, the Explanation of the Financial Plan of the Agency for 2024 and Public Procurement Plan for 2024.

The Steering Board adopted a regular amendment to the Agency's List of Reviewers and appointed a new member of the Agency's Accreditation Council from among students, since the mandate of the previous student representative in this body has expired.
On the agenda of the session were other issues of importance for the work of the Agency.

The first meeting of participants-partners in the realization of the project "Strengthening Capacities and Mechanisms for Enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems in BiH" (SMEQA-ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE-STRAND-3), was held in Zenica on February 27th and 28th and it was organized by the University of Zenica. During the two-day meeting, upcoming activities and partners in the project were presented, a detailed plan of partner activities, assigned tasks and responsibilities, and technical details necessary for the implementation of this project were agreed upon.
The Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska is one of the partners in this project and in the next 3 years it will work on the implementation of this project together with 18 partner institutions.

The Agency for Higher Education of Republic of Srpska organized on January 12, a meeting with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (Magyar Felsőoktatási Akkreditációs Bizottság - MAB) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of East Sarajevo, where they discussed the preparation for the procedure of international accreditation of medical study programs from two public universities in the Republic of Srpska, which will be carried out by the Agency of Hungary with the consent of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME).
MAB is one of the few European and world agencies that has passed the procedure of external evaluation by the WFME, thereby gaining the right to carry out procedures for the international accreditation of medical faculties in relation to the standards of the WFME.