12.7 How does the German Accreditation Council process data from peer reviewers who are employed by system-accredited higher education institutions in internal accreditation procedures?

The following data is collected: Name, title, function and institution of peer reviewers appointed by system-accredited higher education institutions.

This data is entered by the higher education institutions in the data field provided for this purpose in ELIAS; as a result, the peer review report data is visible in the public database of accredited study programmes. In addition, this data is included in the Quality Reports (i.e. in the reports that serve as the basis for internal accreditations) written by the higher education institutions and also entered by them in the public database. When submitting an application, higher education institutions must check a box to obtain the consent of the peer reviewers to the processing and publication of the aforementioned data and then publish the corresponding data. The legal basis for data collection is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR.

The accreditation data records, accreditation reports regarding program and system accreditations as well as Quality Reports on internal accreditations are stored and published for 24 years from the expiry of the validity period of the respective accreditation or 30 years from the announcement of a negative decision. The reason for this is that the public (in particular graduates and employers) may also require information about accreditations dating back longer.

The processor is ProUnix Gesellschaft für Softwareentwicklung mbH, Heinemannstr. 34, 53175 Bonn. ELIAS is operated by ProUnix on the servers of Claranet GmbH, which is used by ProUnix as a subcontractor. You can find more information on order data processing at https://antrag.akkreditierungsrat.de/datenschutz/.