The project contributes to current joint efforts of the Polish government and stakeholders aiming at reducing bureaucratic burdens related to implementation of the Polish qualifications framework for higher education and external quality assurance process. The new rules and criteria of external quality assurance are to be focused to much larger extent on quality enhancement (rather than on control activities) and on supporting higher education institutions in developing quality culture. They will closely follow revised Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in EHEA. The project will contribute to this agenda by supporting Polish Accreditation Committee (PAC) in organisation of workshops for PAC members and experts on application of new criteria. The project also corresponds to the EHEA Ministers’ conclusion made during the Ministerial Conference in Yerevan that “implementation of the structural reforms is uneven and the tools are sometimes used incorrectly or in bureaucratic and superficial ways”. It is clear that the problem of bureaucratic burdens, which concerns first of all the academic staff, is relevant for the whole EHEA. Therefore the project consortium will organise in 2017 an international peer learning conference devoted to the problem of bureaucratic ways of implementation of structural reforms, i.a. qualifications framework and quality assurance systems and the ways it can be overcome. The conference will be addressed to governmental representatives, including policy-makers, and stakeholders from the EHEA countries.