In addition to its main activities as the European Centre for Higher Education, UNESCO-CEPES also represents UNESCO in Romania.

The Director of UNESCO-CEPES functions as the UNESCO Representative to Romania and, as such, participates regularly in the UN Agency Country Team meetings organized by the UN Resident Co-ordinator in Romania, as well as in other events relevant to the mission and activities of UNESCO in Romania.

During the 1998-2003 period, UNESCO-CEPES actively participated both in the elaboration of the Common Country Assessment (CCA) document (serving as the coordinator of the chapter on Education) and in all the activities undertaken in the framework of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) exercise, being responsible mainly for areas of education and culture, particularly participating  in the UN Thematic Group on "Gender and Education". UNESCO-CEPES also supported the elaboration and publication of the National Report on Education for All Romania, 1999.

Five years later, in 2003, the UN system released the second generation of CCA for Romania. The UNDAF was finalised in December 2003 and along with the CCA, were released in January 2004. UNESCO-CEPES contributed to the processes of producing this common instrument of the UN system in Romania, being particularly involved in the elaboration of the chapter dealing with education and in gender mainstreaming the whole document (as coordinator of the special UN Working Group on Gender).