The "

Open Educational Quality Initiative" is an international network to promote innovation and better quality in education and training through the use of open educational resources. It is partly funded by the European Commis-sion. OPAL is initiated through international organizations like UNESCO, ICDE and EFQUEL and a number of Universi-ties like the Open University UK, the Aalto University in Finland, University Duisburg-Essen and the Catholic Universi-ty in Lisbon, Portugal. It aims at establishing a forum which works to build greater trust in using and promoting open educational resources. The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. The focus of the OPAL Initiative moves beyond access to open educational resources (OER) to focus on innovation and quality through open educational practices (OEP).