UNESCO-CEPES (the European Centre for Higher Education/Centre Européen pour l'Enseignement Supérieur) was established in September 1972 with a view to promoting co-operation in higher education among Member States of the Europe Region (the countries of Europe, North America, and Israel). The activities of UNESCO-CEPES are focused foremost on higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, the Director of UNESCO-CEPES is the Representative of UNESCO in Romania.

Since September 2003, UNESCO-CEPES has been a consultative member of a Follow-up Group of the Bologna Process.

To fulfil its mission, UNESCO-CEPES:

• o undertakes projects relevant to the development and reform of higher education, specifically in view of the follow-up to the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (1998), and the Bologna Process aiming at the creation of the European Higher Education Area;
• o serve as the secretariat or co-secretariat of specialised networks, especially of those related to the implementation of the Council of Europe/UNESCO Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications Concerning Higher Education  in the Europe Region;
• o provides consultancy services;
• o promotes policy development and research on higher education and serves as a forum for the discussion of  important topics in higher education;
• o gathers and disseminates a wide range of information on higher education;
• o coordinates relations with a designated number of UNESCO Chairs relevant to its activities, within the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme; 
• o participates in the activities of other governmental and non-governmental organizations;
• o serves as a link between UNESCO Headquarters and Romania.

For further information please consult the UNESCO-CEPES web site.

We also provide relevant documents, policy statements and results of the work of UNESCO-CEPES as they become available. These are sorted according to main topics connected with the European Higher Education Area.

UNESCO-CEPES

Recognition issues and “easily readable and comparable degrees”
	The Diploma Supplement
Higher education legislation
	Documents from the seminar New Generations of Policy Documents and Laws for Higher Education: Their Thrust in the Context of the Bologna Process (November 4-6, 2004)
Academic mobility
	Information on the project on Brain Drain and the Academic and Intellectual Labour Market in South East Europe
Quality assurance and accreditation
	Papers on Higher Education: Quality Assurance and the Development of Course Programmes, published in 2002
Student participation and governance in higher education
	Papers on Higher Education: Policy Making, Strategic Planning and Management of Higher Education, published in 2002
Regional developments and European dimension of Higher Education
	Final report from the UNESCO-CEPES/ EUA conference “The External Dimension of the Bologna Process: South-East European Higher Education and the European Higher Education Area in a Global World”, 2003