The aim of the project is to establish educational standards and programs to meet up with internationally accepted accreditation criteria at pilot faculties of major public and private universities in Syria with the help of European Universities and accreditation agencies to gather evidence for accountability, to assure that graduates are adequately prepared to enter and continue a career in their profession and to stimulate adequate processes for continuous quality improvement.To achieve these objectives, the project is to collect, analyse and interprete data of the current status and future needs of Higher education in Syria in terms of quality standards, innovative study programs (curriculum development), teaching systems (learning contexts) and evaluation tools (educational outcomes at graduation) and establish an accreditation procedure according to internationally and nationally accepted criteria.The project components consist of a self-evaluation documentation for selected Bachelor and Master study programs according to breakdowns of international accreditation application documents, benchmarking and peer evaluation, preparation of improved study programs and submission to accreditation in a step-bystep assessment and quality development process.