The Value of Peer-Evaluation for the Improvement of Quality of the Aerospace Higher Education Across Europe

The paper presents the results of a pilot project aiming at proposing a sector-specific quality system that can complement the existing national or European accreditation systems, providing added value to the internal and/or external quality assurance processes that are in place in most EU Universities. In particular, the proposed system implies a site visit from a group of peers to crosscheck and validate the data and documents prepared for the degree course under evaluation. The results of the implementation of this procedure on 8 Universities are discussed on the basis of the feedback provided, in order to assess the usefulness of the process as perceived by the provider of the aerospace degree.