The International Affairs Office manages all the partnership and cooperation agreements established between USEK and other local and foreign Higher Education institutions: 8 cooperation agreements with national institutions, and 131 cooperation agreements with foreign higher education institutions, as well as 4 agreements with embassies in Lebanon.

The Office is responsible, furthermore, for establishing relationships with potential partners in order to implement new collaborations within a perspective of developing educational offers, cultural exchanges, knowledge, know-how and this for the benefit of lecturers-researchers as well as students.

The establishment of cooperation agreements aims at launching multiple actions placed under the supervision and management of the Office, mainly: joint scientific research projects; joint organization of seminars, colloquiums, conferences, etc.; joint publications; exchange of lecturers-researchers and students; scholarships for USEK students applying for one of the partner institutions in order to pursue their university studies; as well as co-direction and co-supervision of dissertations and theses.