”Establishment of National Framework of Key Performance Indicators for good governance and quality towards inclusive, digital and green-oriented higher education in Armenia” (KPI4HE) project aims at improving higher education system governance, university strategic planning and management contributing to quality and inclusive, digital and green-oriented higher education in Armenia through development and implementation of National framework of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for higher education (NF-KPI), operationalization of Institutional Research and Planning Services (IRPS) and revision of State Institutional Accreditation Standards in line with NF-KPI.

The project’s core will be the capacity building of national and institutional administrators, decision policymakers, educators and researchers to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals targeting environmental issues into NF-KPI as a tool for higher education steering and university governance practices, strategic planning, management and quality assurance.

The following project outcomes are expected to be sustainable after the end of the Erasmus+ programme funding:

1. Training Kit on European experience of Institutional Research (IR) for improvement of higher education governance, university strategic planning, management and quality within the context of digitalization and green transition,
2. Trained staff from involved institutions in charge of strategic planning, management of information systems, quality assurance, educational and administrative management,
3. National framework of KPIs for higher education (NF-KPI) and its digital platform based on context and supporting the transition to inclusive, digital and green higher education in Armenia
4. Operations Manuals of IR (OMIR) in the application of NF-KPI fitting the size, mission and objectives of the involved HEIs,
5. Functional Institutional Research and Planning Services (IRPS) with necessary infrastructures and regulatory framework in involved higher education institutions
6. Reports on pilot Institutional Research (IR) and strategic planning activities in involved HEIs,
7. Revised and adopted State Institutional Accreditation Standards in line with NF-KPI.

The project’s expected impact is foreseen on:

Institutional level: Teaching and administrative staff with increased and reinforced competencies on IR for digitalization and green transition, functional IRPS and set of KPIs for collection, analysis and utilization of relevant institutional data in support of daily management and strategic planning, monitoring and control, quality evaluation and decision making for the sake of university efficient and green functioning and development.

National level: Implementation of National framework of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for higher education (NF-KPI), digital platform supporting NF-KPI and revised State Institutional Accreditation Standards in line with NF-KP as tools for effective steering of higher education system towards inclusive, digital and green-oriented higher education in Armenia.

European level: sparked experience sharing, networking and promotion of long-term cooperation between the involved partners leading to convergence in line with EU developments and standards and towards fostering the integration of the HEIs from Armenia into the EHEA.

The coordinator of this national three-year program is Yerevan State University, the participants are the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance (ANQA), the Eurasia International University, the Northern University, the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA, the Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University, Gavar state university and Armenian Center for Education Policy and Management NGO, as well as three European universities (Dresden Technical University, University of Oldenburg (Germany) and University of Genoa (Italy).