CONIES  Council on International Higher Education Supervision 

1)                That the parties are interested in developing common goals in academic and cultural fields.

2)                That the education at all levels, especially at the tertiary level, is a basic component in the economic and social development of peoples

3)                 That the institutions of Higher Education are identified with the aspirations of its communities to advance the development of the same.

4)                 That the institutions of learning signers of the Confederation have the determined desire to share the different methods of teaching and research.

5)                 That the globalized world demands every day more integration in all fields, including education at all levels.

6)                 That the Higher Education Institutions represented here, consider it appropriate increase their academic links setting appropriate tools for the exchange of experiences, organization of forums of common interest, develop internships, organization of conferences and research development. 

7)                 It is necessary to expand the quality and excellence of our educational programs, individual or joint, use evaluation and control systems universally established and accepted.

8)                 That the Higher Education Institutions undersigned of the Confederation, host, promote and defend social and individual values which they represent, such as freedom, pluralism, respect for ideas and critical thinking, university autonomy, and the search for truth.

9)                 That the legal framework of the respective countries where the Higher Education institutions are located, underwriters to this Confederation, allow the realization of it, without any legal constraints.

10)            That the undersigning institutions should promote new forms of distance education, based on technology and Internet use.

11)            That the parties concerned have decided to conclude on this date an International Confederation to allow the Exchange and / or collaboration, mutual recognition of studies at all levels, through cooperation and implementing academic, scientific and cultural facility under the this agreement, where each subscriber institutions retain its own legal personality.



The Objectives of the International Confederation of Higher Education, hereinafter for its acronym – CONIES-ICHE - are as follows

1)     To promote scientific and academic exchange in the following areas: Social and Political Sciences, Communication and Information Sciences, Medical Sciences, Veterinary Sciences, Exact Sciences, Economics and Business Sciences, and others as agreed by mutual consent which can strengthen the human resources system in these specialties.

2)     Encourage a discussion space, exchange, training, critical reflection, in a constructive environment, allowing the development of sciences and arts, linked to this Agreement.

3)     To Develop jointly the modalities that be possible for professional and student exchange in order to achieve higher levels of development among member institutions of the Confederation, through: conferences, internships, organization of forums, seminars, etc., Both on-campus, and virtual.

4)     Promote and develop a broad and frank exchange of scientific and technical information in the areas set out in this Agreement. So how also, to promote education of undergraduate and postgraduate university for Virtual mode.

5)     Develop joint studies and research projects on topics of common interest of the parties.

6)     Establish a framework for interagency cooperation in order to enable the nostrification, approval and / or matching and double degree of the professional titles, both undergraduate as graduate, legally extended by the institutions subscribing to this instrument, that is, extending the corresponding diplomas of recognition of titles issued by any of the undersign institution of this document.

7)     Provide all sorts of services in terms of training and dissemination for which the Confederation may carry out the publication of books, pamphlets as well as all kinds of publications in any of its forms.

8)     Develop teaching, research, innovation and dissemination of culture in all fields of knowledge, in accordance with local and foreign legislation applicable in education.

9)     To encourage and develop scientific research and technological development in various fields and aspects of knowledge and of human activity, in order to formulate alternative projects for the resolution of social, economic and cultural problems of society.

All other objectives are not expressly set forth, but which contribute to achieving the objectives of the Confederation. As long as do not fall in contradiction with legal provisions of the members who signed this Instrument.   



Institutions must present, with the application for membership, a translation of an official document from an appropriate government organisation in their country stating authorisation, recognition, accreditation, and/or their right to grant degrees. This documentation and additional justification of quality, such as accreditation by national and international accrediting bodies or quality assurance organizations, should be submitted with candidacy application.

CONIES-ICHE does not offer membership or programme accreditation to institutions without national authorisation, recognition or accreditation or without degree awarding authority.