Quality assurance and evaluation are two of the most important elements in education and training. Quality assurance and evaluation methods and practices have been established to some extend in education of all levels and in vocational training. Especially in schools and universities, there exist common acceptable European quality criteria, indicators and evaluation methodologies.

The objectives of the BEQUAL project is to promote quality assurance in VET by developing:

- an electronic benchmarking tool, which allows training providers in VET to online benchmark their quality approach against CQAF core criteria and database collections of good practices.

- a web based “quality sharing network” in VET, which is based on quality profiles gained through benchmarking and enables training providers to ad hoc search for CQAF compliant good practice matching with their internal quality process.
- a thematic portal that is the main reference point for practitioners, researchers and policy makers that are looking for information for quality assurance in VET training institutes.

Through recent Leonardo da Vinci programme periods the European CERN partnership, has developed a set of quality instruments for VET networks. Besides research papers, evaluation handbooks and training programmes the EVAL II project with SPEAK produced a strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation tool for VET networks, which in the course of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project EVAL IV has been tested and validated in collaboration with VET institutes and stakeholders.