Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI)

Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

Instituto Barcelona de Estudios Internacionales (IBEI)

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
IQAs Audit, Pompeu Fabra University
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
IQAs Audit
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional accreditation
Decision: positive
DOCENTIA audit, Pompeu Fabra University

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Relations (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Relaciones Internacionales
    • Relacions Internacionals
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Relations (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Relaciones Internacionales
    • Relacions Internacionals
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Security (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Seguretat Internacional
    • Seguridad Internacional
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Security (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Seguretat Internacional
    • Seguridad Internacional
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Security (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Seguretat Internacional
    • Seguridad Internacional
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Security (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Seguretat Internacional
    • Seguridad Internacional
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
International Security (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Seguretat Internacional
    • Seguridad Internacional
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Law (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Dret
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Law (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Dret
  • Qualification/award
    • Doctorate
    • Doctorat
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF level 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive Joint programme
Law and Economics (second cycle degree)
Decision: positive Joint programme
Law and Economics (second cycle degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M Cartography (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 120 ECTS)
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M European Master in Law and Economics (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 60 ECTS)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M European Master in Law and Economics (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 60 ECTS)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M European Master in Law and Economics (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 60 ECTS)
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M European Politics and Society: Vaclav Havel Joint Master Programme (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 120 ECTS)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive Joint programme
M European Politics and Society: Vaclav Havel Joint Master Programme (joint degree) (second cycle degree, 120 ECTS)
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Investigación Multidisciplinar en Ciencias Experimentales
    • Recerca Multidisciplinar en Ciències Experimentals / Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Investigación Multidisciplinar en Ciencias Experimentales
    • Recerca Multidisciplinar en Ciències Experimentals
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Nursing (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Enfermería
    • Infermeria
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grado
    • Grau
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.