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CONEAU was created by the higher education No 24.521, and is a decentralised body under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.
CONEAU is a Full member of INQAAHE and has certified its GGP Alignment in past Febraury 2023.
For conducting the Conference 2025, it has the support of the Ministry of Education of Nation through the Secretariat of University Policies and the Ibero-American System of Quality Assurance of Higher Education (SIACES) due to the regional relevance of the event. It should be highlighted that SIACES is also a QA network affiliate to INQAAHE.
• Coordinate and conduct the external evaluation of university institutions.
• Accredit degree programs when corresponding to professions regulated by the State, the exercise of which could endanger the public interest, directly jeopardising the health, safety, rights, property or training of the inhabitants.
• Accredit graduate courses, whatever the field in which they are developed, by the standards established by the Ministry of Culture and Education in consultation with the Council of Universities.
• Decide on the consistency and viability of the institutional project required for the Ministry of Education to authorize the start-up of a new national university institution after its creation or the recognition of a provincial university institution.
• Draw up the reports required to grant provisional authorization and definitive recognition of private university institutions.
• Write the reports based on which the period of provisional operation of private university institutions will be evaluated.
• In 2017, a new function was incorporated, the evaluation of Institutional Distance Education Systems (SIED), which according to Resolution 4256/17, is assigned to CONEAU within the framework of the evaluation processes of university institutions.