ATHEA is a non-profit organisation to promote the following activities: To provide educational, accrediting, quality assurance and other services to its member institutions, degree/diploma granting post-secondary educational institutions offering higher education and located inside or outside the European area, including, but not limited to, the countries who are signatories of the Bologna Protocols. To conduct voluntary, non-governmental peer review and make decisions concerning the accreditation or pre-accreditation status of member institutions. To promote quality assurance and improvement through voluntary accreditation via peer evaluation and instil public confidence in its institutional members’ missions, goals, performance, and resources through its rigorous accreditation standards and their enforcement. To initiate and sustain such training and research activities as may be consistent with the general purposes of ATHEA. To seek registration on the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR) for Higher Education.