The ASEAN University Network is tasked to promote higher education, increase linkages between universities and encourage credit transfers in ASEAN+3 countries. In realization of this vital mission, the “ASEAN +3 Higher Education Policy Dialogue” was successfully convened in Phuket, Thailand in March 2009 with full support by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, the Office of Higher Education Commission, Thailand and the AUN Secretariat. 

In terms of policies, laws, and bilateral agreements that facilitate global skills partnership, the leading higher educational institutions of the Philippines, such as the University of the Philippines, Ateneo Manila University and the De La Salle University are members of the network in which students of these universities may enroll in other ASEAN members universities through the ASEAN+3 university network credit transfer system.