The global trend of quality assurance has found its way into universities and their lifelong learning. Quality projects are carried out at the institutional, national, European and global level. Quality systems are launched at universities and they will be audited or accredited by national or international bodies

However, the issue of indicators and benchmarks in university lifelong learning has not been exhaustively examined. There seems to be a clear need for development both in terms of public accountability but also in terms of pointing the relevant foci of development within and by the institutions themselves.

The topic of indicators of quality in ULLL was not covered in the first Equipe network although there is a clear need to address the issues in academic LLL at institutional and faculty level.

In EQUIPEPlus we have produced discussion papers about the problems and benefits of the use of indicators, drafted sets of indicators for ULLL and a list of Do's and Don’ts in using an indicator approach.

We have also collected EquipePlus case examples of good practice and links to relevant websites and previous papers.

The outcomes of our work are published on this website. We had a good chance to learn during the EQUIPE and EQUIPE Plus projects. We hope that the outcomes of our learning experience will support the quality enhancement in university lifelong learning, although we are most conscious that a lot of learning and development remains to be done in future projects.