CINALC is the network of national offices responsible for the recognition of foreign degrees in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Its mission is part of the UNESCO initiative, included in the document “Recommendation on the Recognition of Studies and Qualifications in Higher Education” of 1993, and in the regional convention of second generation updated and ratified in the Buenos Aires Convention in 2019.
On October 23, 2022, the New Regional Agreement for the Recognition of Higher Education Studies, Degrees and Diplomas in Latin America and the Caribbean (Buenos Aires Convention) came into force. Which is in the ratification phase. Since at the beginning of 2023 the World Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications relating to Higher Education, the global United Nations treaty on higher education, under which the other conventions are framed, came into force.