Even before the Bologna Declaration announced by the European Ministers of Education in 1999 and the resulting introduction of today's quality assurance systems, it became necessary to develop a suitable form of quality testing due to the confusing range of MBA programmes that had developed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Hence, the leading organisations of Swiss, Austrian and German industry established the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) in autumn 1994 as an international foundation. Right from Day One, the intention was to develop a strict Assessment Guide for quality assurance in the field of management training. 

FIBAA Foundation Board is the leading board of the Foundation. It defines and represents the common interests of the founders and decides on the economic and strategic baselines of FIBAA's work. FIBAA Foundation Board assures that FIBAA's mission is well-established in society and its institutions and promotes FIBAA's overall values of transparency, quality and internationality in the field of higher education. 

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President

• Prof. Dr. oec. HSG Rudolf Minsch, Chief Economist / Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Zurich

Vice President

• Dr. Oliver Heikaus, Head of Continuing Education, Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (DIHK) (German Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

• Mag.a Melina Schneider, Head of Department for Education Policy, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Members

• Dr. Barbara Dorn, Head of Department Education | Vocational Training, BDA | DIE ARBEITGEBER, Berlin  

• Prof. André Haelg, formerly Zurich University of Applied Sciences

• Kurt Koleznik, Secretary General, Austrian Conference of Universities of Applied Sciences, Vienna

• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Riemer, Former Head of Education, Innovation and Research of the Federation of Austrian Industry (Industriellenvereinigung) and Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Vienna

• Dr. Hans Höller, Siemens AG 

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Knorr, Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer

• Prof. Dr. Irina Kohler, Hochschule Fulda

• Nadja Kolibacz, Studentin an der TU Berlin

FIBAA offers to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and educational providers an appeals process regarding decisions taken by the Accreditation and Certification Committee (F-ACC) or procedural complaints about Accreditation or Certification procedures, as well as procedural complaints about FIBAA Consult evaluation procedures. All three legal facts will be called complaint hereafter.

The first step in the complaints procedure is to file a written complaint to the FIBAA Office within one month of the written notification of the decision. Once the written complaint is submitted, an automatic suspension of deadlines is activated until the final decision of the complaint.

Next, the appeal is sent from the FIBAA Office to the expert team familiar with the case and subsequently to the F-ACC for a decision.

In case the F-ACC still has not reached a decision, the complaint is then submitted to the FIBAA Complaints Committee for review and comment. The FIBAA Complaints Committee clarifies the facts of the complaint and, on this basis, gives the F-ACC a recommendation for a renewed and final decision in the pending complaints procedure.

In the event of a negative decision by the F-ACC all costs incurred will be the responsibility of the client. These costs include but are not limited to: the complaints procedure expenses, travel expenses, and labor costs.

The Rules of Procedure of the Appeals Committee can be found here. (only available in German)