High quality education

European Christian Academy develops its quality strategy according to is PLAN FOR STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT following unified standards and guidelines of higher education in EU (ESG). Plan of strategic development uses the foresight methodology which foresees the use of specific tools for the quality assurance:

  1. shared ownership,
  2. effectivity and availability,
  3. student-centered education,
  4. coordinācija with external stakeholders.

For implementation of the quality management policy and quality culture ECA has worked out method which operates systematically. It is available in the protal LOGOS. Quality management assures visible results which are proved by the Accreditation Certificate issued by High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education” (HCERES) (France) for the First and Second level (Bachelor and Master) degree study programs in “Bible art” marked with “Golden Label” (2025).

Even before that ECA has received positive evaluations from the EC executive agency EACEA:

  1. In 2020 Letter of Recognition “Diploma Supplement Quality Label”. The decision was based on quality criteria stated by “ECTS DS Guidelines for Applicants”. “We are satisfied with Latvian Universities which have proved themselves on European scale by being awarded with prestigeous EC quality Certifictates,” said Mrs. Dita Traidās, Director of the State Education Development Agency (Latvia).
  2. Since 2022 European Christian Academy works for being nominated as Jean Monnet Excellence Center”. Dimension of the European Integration is involved in all study programs and in the quality assurance system. In 2021 Academy was awarded with theEC Plaque of honor of EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) for implementation of the prestigeous ERASMUS+ “Jean Monnet Module” .  The content of the module: “European social work and social entrepreneurship with future”.
  3. In 2022 ECA signed agreement “For good practice in attraction of foreign students and provision of studies” between the Ministry of education and science, Ministry of Foreign affairs and Ministry of Internal affairs, and was awarded with respective Quality Ceritificate.
  4. According to the U-Multirank international quality assessment ECA was ranked among seven best universities in Latvia. ECA has received eight highest (A) points in assessment of studies in the following chapters: studies and learning (3A), transfer of knowledge (2A) and international cooperation (3A).

The foundation of the success story of European Christian Academy is cooperation with International Support Council which functions as both academic and socially political unit. The Council gathers specialists from USA, Israel, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and France. Rector of ECA prof. Skaidrīte Gūtmane is menber of several EC think-tank groups.

Copyrigtn holder of study programs at European Christian Academy is © ECA International Support Council and © ECA.