The ASEA-UNINET consortium focuses on research as a media to bridge cooperation and collaboration between universities in ASEAN and Europe. This consortium aims to help step up sustainable globalization and internationalization of education and research. ASEA-UNINET builds its success based on equality through collaboration as well as scientific and cross-cultural exchange. ASEA-UNINET was founded in 1994 by universities from Austria, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam as Austrian-South-East Asian University Network and consists of more than 80 universities from 18 different countries.