The UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education/Centre européen pour l'enseignement supérieur (CEPES) promotes co-operation and provides technical support in the field of higher education among UNESCO’s Member States in Central, Eastern and South-East Europe.

Specifically UNESCO-CEPES:

• undertakes projects relevant to the development and reform of higher education, specifically in view of the follow-up to the 2009 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, and the Bologna Process aiming at the creation of the European Higher Education Area;

• promotes policy development and research on higher education and serves as a forum for the discussion of important topics in higher education; - gathers and disseminates a wide range of information on higher education;

• coordinates, within the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, relations with a designated number of UNESCO Chairs relevant to its activities;

• provides consultancy services;

• participates in the activities of other governmental and non-governmental organizations;

• serves as a link between UNESCO Headquarters and Romania.