Leading partner institution: Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University, UK, in cooperation with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Chair: John Butler in cooperation with Kieran Corcoran

• further develops and disseminates the results of the inter}artes network in the field of the Bologna objectives.
• continues to chart and test a European EQF for the arts, accompanied by updated subject-specific information in European ‘tuning’ documents, discussed and validated by representatives from the professional world. Lifelong learning pathways within the arts will be integrated in an EQF.
• undertakes a further peer visit on quality enhancement (in addition to the four visits undertaken in the previous period), accompanied by a learning workshop on quality enhancement and learning outcomes, in collaboration with the Turkish partner institutions. The panel of Higher Arts Education experts in quality enhancement, established in the previous period, will be extended and professionalised and a webpage will promote the expertise and services offered in the field of quality enhancement, external examining, institutional review and learning outcomes.
• identifies new pedagogic approaches to learning and teaching in the arts and develops the concept for a ‘teachers’ academy’ in 2009, focusing on teaching staff from Higher Arts Education institutes and educators from other fields (education, museums, projects), based on peer reviewed contributions, in collaboration with strand 1 and 3.