Elearning has become mainstream provision in European higher education and is essential in supporting lifelong learning and internationalisation. By becoming integral part of higher education, e-learning should also be integral part of the QA systems, internal and external, with related innovative and appropriate criteria.By developing the E-xcellence instrument under the e-learning programme an opportunity is created by EADTU for the existing channels in QA to adopt new quality guidelines for increased quality, accessibility and attrractiveness. As the E-xcellence instrument supplements existing QA systems with e-learning specific issues and addresses directly the higher education and adult education sector it can be integrated within the existing QA frameworks. Especially now that universities and QA-agencies have put QA in e-learning on their agenda. In the past 2 stages in which E-xcellence was developed and promoted by and within open and blended universities and QA agencies it has proven to be a valuable and valued open source tool. The NVAO being the first QA agency to work with E-xcellence feels confident to engage in contacts with universities and other stakeholders in the realm of accreditation with a view to making the e-learning component of Bachelor's and Master's degree courses an integral part of internal and external quality assurance.We therefore want to take the third step on mainstreaming by integrating the instrument into the regular channels for QA. This means that EADTU wants to serve universities Europe wide with an open and updated "quality assurance in e-learning" instrument and starts a partnership with European and global stakeholders (a.o. ENQA, NVAO, VLIR, VLHORA, UNESCO, COL, ACDE, CALED) to further apply and improve the instrument. The objectives of E-xcellence NEXT therefore are: 1. further European introduction 2. updating and extending the E-xcellence instrument3. broadening the partnership on European and Global level.