ACQA Quality Plan

ACQA Quality Plan – Project Monitoring and Evaluation

The Quality Plan aims to ensure that all project activities are carried out with the highest possible standards and that the project objectives are reached efficiently. This involves the evaluation of project progress, which requires the precise definition of indicators, monitoring procedures and adapted tools by the APLE Committee for Quality Assurance (ACQA) according to the coordinators of each HEIs the beginning of the project.

Therefore, throughout the project lifetime, the members will be aware of defined standards that should be met for each task they carry out and the achievement methods of those standards within the allocated time.

The quality of activities is dependent on the contribution of all partners; they will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the project. It is necessary to respect the project indicators and the quality measures that follow to the logical framework matrix and to the project timeline. This plan involves necessary indicators, procedures and tools for each Work Package (WP), such as questionnaires, reports, assessments and evaluation criteria.

Each WP Leader will be responsible for implementing activities accordingly and will be evaluated by the ACQA. The Quality Plan is elaborated by UNIROMA1 and confirmed the supervision of ACQA. Evaluation methods are based on internal self-evaluation by APLE Committee with external feedback and input that will keep the project on its track. Quantitative and qualitative means of verifying outreach of activities are presented through LFM table in a detailed manner. Specific objectives, outcomes/deliverables and activities are listed and the means of verification is defined through objectively verifiable indicators, described by item from objectives to activities, and assigned numerical or descriptive value as a means of verification.

A detailed monitoring system is defined for supporting the project management team in the decision-making, allowing eventual readdressing of activities and resources. The quality plan is elaborated to guarantee quality on different levels of the project. It is composed of a general framework introduction, structure, guidelines, tools and processes that work on different scales from the single activity to the task, work package (WP) and the whole project.

Quality assurance guidelines for Plan elaboration

• Simple, light, and user-friendly Quality Assurance monitoring
• Integrated it in the project workplan and timeline.
• Assignment a quality coordinator or team to oversee.
• Indicators that all partners can understand.
• Use of means that are simple.
• External evaluation / evaluator can be useful.
• Reference the quality assurance unit in project institutions for inspiration.
• Paying attention to using feedback, not just collecting it.
• It is largely about self-reflection.
• Quality is not just about delivering the deliverables.
• Participants should be serious about it – it can support them.
• It is necessary not to leave it behind.

Lead organization: UNIROMA 1 – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Prepared by: UNIROMA1 – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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