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MIUR – The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research is in charge of all education, from elementary to university and research at all levels. The responsibility of the education system falls under the scope of action of MIUR that operates at central level, while Regional and Provincial Education Offices (USR and UST) operate at the local level. It is also in charge to establish policies at national level influenced by the Italian participation to the European Higher Educations Area (EHEA): from 2018 to 2020 the Secretariat of the EHEA will be placed in Italy and the 2020 Ministerial Conference of the EHEA will be organized in Italy. In 2005 the Italian Ministry started working on the Italian Qualifications Framework, in compliance with the procedures established at European level (QF-EHEA): a team formed by technical consultants of the Ministry and the Italian Bologna Experts was set up and started working on the first draft of the Italian Qualifications Framework. The final outcome of their work was carefully scrutinized by numerous parties: the competent internal department and the Directorates General of the Ministry; the relevant institutional representative and consultative bodies, such as the National University Council (Consiglio Universitario Nazionale); the National Council of University Students (Consiglio Nazionale degli Studenti Universitari); the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane); the National Council for Higher Schools of Arts and Music (Consiglio Nazionale per l'Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale); the social partners and the professional associations. In 2010 the Italian Qualifications Framework (QTI) for Higher Education was adopted and published by the Ministry with reference to Qualifications Framework for the European Higher Education Area. Starting from 2008, MIUR participated to the Inter-Ministerial Committee to draft the Italian Referencing Report to the EQF, adopted in 2012.

​MIUR website

Since 1984, CIMEA has been engaged in the procedures for the recognition of academic qualifications, higher education and training. CIMEA is the official Italian centre within the NARIC - National Academic Recognition Information Centres – network of the European Union and the ENIC - European National Information Centres – network of the European Council and of UNESCO. In addition, since its establishment CIMEA has been supporting academic mobility in all its forms and promoting the principles of the Lisbon Convention in the field of academic qualification recognition. CIMEA At first, CIMEA was asked to develop the first prototype of the National Framework, which was aimed at portraying the reform process which the Italian Higher Education system has undergone since 1999: CIMEA hosts the Italian QF of the EHEA since 2010 (Quadro dei titoli italiani – QTI); since 2012 CIMEA participates in the work of the Group of National Correspondents for Qualifications Frameworks (QF-EHEA) founded at the Council of Europe and it had contributed significantly to the development of different NQF (i.e. Belgium, Holy See, Latvia). Since 2015 CIMEA is working on the development of the Coast Guard Functions Sectoral Qualifications Framework (CGFSQF) as external body within the project ECGFA N

CIMEA website