The Project GOMES has been designed to support the structural reform of higher education in Serbia and the strategic framework development adopted at the national level by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE), Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Conference of Serbian Universities (CSU). In the last years, the higher education reform in Serbia has been conducted entirely in the spirit of the Bologna Process and has encompassed the principal aspects of this Process, including ECTS, curriculum development, external and internal quality assurance, accreditation, qualifications frameworks. The reports presented at the Ministerial Conferences related to the Bologna Process stocktaking have demonstrated undeniable successes in this process. However, at this moment, the Serbian higher education system is faced with the need to critically reconsider the obtained results and continue the reform processes, enhancing the quality and relevance of higher education institutions, as well as theconvergence with the current EU developments. Accordingly, this project is oriented towards several selected lines, in accordance with both the priorities of Tempus and the decisions adopted at the level of NCHE. Having in mind the national importance of the project, the guidance will be assigned to a Steering Committee, composed of the highest representatives of NCHE, MoE, SCU and the Student Association of Serbia, as well of the Universities of Belgrade and Novi Sad (Novi Sad being the Grant-holder of the project) .On the basis of a proposal formulated by NCHE, the Government of the Republic of Serbia initiated recently the important work on the reformulation of the Strategy of the Development of Higher Education in Serbia. Within many aspects of this complex activity, this project will focus on the problem of functional integration of the Serbian universities. Integration of Serbian universities represents, according to the recent conclusions of NCHE and CSU, one of the main obstacles in the improvement of quality of both education and research at Serbian universities, divided into faculties which possess a high degree of autonomy. Adequate measures will be proposed, so that the partner universities will be in the position to implement them and provide an adequate feedback. All Serbian universities will be reorganized according to the adopted model. Within this part of the project, attention will also be paid to the adaptation of the LHE to the needs of the continuation of the reform of the higher education system.National standards for quality assurance have been adopted by the NCHE in 2006, and applied in the process of accreditation of all higher education institutions in Serbia, which started in 2007 and which will be terminated by the end of 2009. The accreditation process has been led by the Committee for Accreditation and Quality Assurance (CAQA), nominated by the NCHE according to the Law on Higher Education (LHE). During the process, a lot of experience has been acquired. According to this experience and the desire to maximally harmonize the actual standards with the EU standards, the project will be focused on the formulation of new standards for external quality assurance. Within this general orientation, the emphasis will be laid on the introduction of learning outcomes in the formulation of study programmes, reconsideration of the list of degrees and titles obtainable at the higher education institutions, reorganization of external quality assessment bodies at both the national level and the university level, enhancement of the student participation at all stages of quality assessment and tuning of the study programmes between the Serbian universities and the selected EU universities.