What is accreditation?

Accreditation in the Europass context is the quality assurance or licensing of an organisation or a qualification. An accreditation instance within the Europass context can be used to specify information about two types of Accreditation.

• Institutional licensing: quality assurance and/or licensing at the level of an organisation. It implies permission for the institution to operate (e.g., issuing a qualification) and is awarded by Public Authorities or delegates thereof.
• Programme/qualification accreditation: permission to provide a specific programme or qualification. Describes a licensing procedure applied at the level of one or several programmes/qualifications. It implies permission for an institution to provide specific Programmes/Qualifications and is awarded by Public Authorities or delegates thereof.