South East European University

South East European University (SEEU) is an internationally recognized private-public nonprofit higher education institution based in Tetovo, North Macedonia, with a branch campus in Skopje. It was founded in 2001 on the initiative of former top-level Dutch diplomat and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities HE Max van der Stoel. Since its inception, the university has been successful in combining the best of European and American experience, and it has benefited from numerous academic collaborations sponsored by the European Commission and USAID, among other donors.

Former Swedish diplomat HE Rolf Ekéus stated during the opening ceremony: "Today is a good day for Europe. At a time when good news is in short supply, it is heartening to see that progress can be made towards building peace among people. […] In the future, people will think of Tetovo as the site of a multi-lingual university". The university is a member of the European University Association as well as the Balkan Universities Network.

Former Dutch diplomat HE Max van der Stoel, who initiated the venture of launching a globally recognized university and higher education excellence center with a European orientation in the region in the late 1990s, has been lauded for the establishment of the South East European University (SEEU).

Max van der Stoel, the University's first Chairman of the International Advisory Board, emphasized the University's European orientation, saying, "We know the wish of the population of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to have increasingly close relations with countries of the European Union and to have education at a standard recognized by European academic institutions".

The international community was approached for funding for the project, while the local government provided the land on which the university is built. Since its inception, the project has been overseen by both an international and a national advisory board.

Website: www.seeu.edu.mk