The 6th ENQA Members’ Forum took place on April 28-29, 2016 in Budapest, Hungary. The Forum was organised in cooperation with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC). Over 90 representatives from 58 accreditation agencies from 32 countries took part in the Forum.

A wide range of issues was discussed during the work of 3 sessions. For example, assessment of educational programmes oriented towards training of academic specialists (at Master's degree and postgraduate programmes), assessment of innovative and scientific activities in a higher educational institution. The issue on the influence of the quality assurance system and accreditation on the procedures of diploma recogniition was raised for the first time by Claudia Gelleni, President of the ENIC-NARIC Network. The problem of fraud in education is closely connected with this issue: production and distribution of forged diplomas, dissertations, academic degrees and a new trend - foundation of unfair accreditation agencies (accreditation mills).

General Assembly meeting of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and ENQA working group on Staff development, requirements to their knowledge, experience and competences were held in the frameworks of the Forum.

Russia was represented by 3 leading accreditation agencies - ENQA full members: National Centre for Public Accreditation (director V.G. Navodnov, deputy director G.N. Motova), Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Career Development (director E.Y. Soboleva), National Accreditation Agency (director L.S. Izmailova, specialist of the branch in Yoshkar-Ola F.Z. Garifullina).