The Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano (CSUCA) is a regional association of public universities in the Central American countries of Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. CSUCA's aim is to contribute to the integration and strengthening of higher education in the region and to promote internationalisation, innovation and institutional development in Central America's public universities.
 

SEAMEO RIHED is the centre of the Southeast Asian Ministries of Education specialising in the development of higher education. It is operated by the Thai government and is based in Bangkok, Thailand. The aim of SEAMEO RIHED is to promote the efficiency, effectiveness and harmonisation of higher education in Southeast Asia through cooperation and the facilitation of exchanges in the higher education sector.

The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) is a regional institution dedicated to promoting higher education and research in East Africa. Since its establishment in 1980, IUCEA has become a platform that strengthens collaboration and integration among higher education institutions in the member states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan. The goal of IUCEA is to improve the quality of higher education, expand research capacities, and promote student and faculty mobility within the region. Inter-University Council for East Africa – Quality Education for Development

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has been collaborating closely with IUCEA for over 20 years through the DIES programme. This partnership has resulted in numerous initiatives that support and further develop universities in East Africa.

Examples of cooperation between IUCEA and DAAD through the DIES programme include:

• Capacity Building for University Management: Workshops and training programmes have been conducted to strengthen the management skills of university managers in the region. Regional standards and guidelines are supported by European expertise.
• Quality Assurance and Accreditation: Initiatives to enhance quality assurance and accreditation processes have been implemented to ensure that academic programmes meet internationally recognized standards, and the exchange of experiences and expertise between Europe and Africa is promoted.

This long-standing cooperation has made a significant contribution to strengthening higher education in East Africa and consistently promotes the exchange between European and African higher education managers. 

The Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l’Enseignement Supérieur (CAMES) is a regional higher education council for higher education and scientific research in 19 countries in West Africa, Central Africa, the Great Lakes region, and the Indian Ocean: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, and Togo.

Founded in January 1968 in Niamey, Niger, by the Heads of State of the Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache (OCAM), it contributes to the promotion of harmonised higher education and research policies and systems through the actions of its political and academic bodies and through the statutory programmes and projects it implements. www.lecames.org/

The cooperation with CAMES in the frame of the DIES programme is based on joint activities, particularly in the area of quality assurance in higher education (see also the EWAQAS project). Currently, CAMES also serves as a strategic partner in the DIES training course "TrainIQA" for (internal) quality assurance in higher education institutions.

Additionally, topics of common interest are occasionally addressed, such as a webinar on "Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Management: Potentials and Risks for Quality Assurance, Internationalization, and Administration" on 23 October 2024. 
The recording of the event in English and French can be found under ‘Events held’

The Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) is a network of higher education institutions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Established in 2005, SARUA aims to promote regional cooperation and collaboration in higher education and research to address common challenges and foster sustainable development. The organization connects higher education institutions across 16 SADC member countries, including Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. https://sarua.africa/

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has been working with SARUA as regional partner in the DIES-programme and more specifically in the TrainIQA training course to promote quality assurance in the higher education sector in the SADC region. 

From 2013 to 2019, the DAAD carried out a DIES project on quality assurance in West and Central Africa in cooperation with African partner organizations (Association of African Universities, African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education and Economic Community of West African States) and UNESCO.

Training and dialogue measures were offered for different target groups in Anglophone and Francophone countries in West and Central Africa. The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP UNESCO) ran a distance education course on external quality assurance on behalf of the DAAD.

The University of Duisburg-Essen and Saarland University coordinated a multi-part training course on internal quality assurance for quality assurance coordinators at higher education institutions.

In Southeast Asia, the DAAD and HRK worked together from 2011 to 2019 with the Southeast Asian University Network (AUN), the regional network of quality assurance agencies (AQAN) and the Southeast Asian Ministries of Education Office for Regional Higher Education Development (SEAMEO RIHED).

The aim of ASEAN-QA was to develop competencies and structures in the field of quality assurance in the Southeast Asia region.

The project was coordinated by the University of Potsdam. Another partner at European level was the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).

The intensification of cooperation between SAQAN and the DAAD on the topic of regional quality assurance goes back to a joint DIES seminar that took place in Pretoria, South Africa, from October 9-10, 2017.

Based on the results of a DIES study, the current status of quality assurance in higher education in the SADC region was discussed and needs for capacity building at national and institutional level were identified.

As part of a memorandum of understanding with SAQAN, two blended learning courses on external quality assurance have been developed, which were held in 2019 and 2020 in partnership with IIEP-UNESCO.