Striving to accomplish the established goals, OSU engages in the following priority concerns:
- Promotion of multicultural understanding and development;
- Promotion of cross-border and regional cooperation as well as exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences;
- Capacity supporting and capacity building of the university staff and higher education institutions in the Region;
- Promote the prevention, as well as amicable settlement of disputes;
- Encouraging regional dialogue;
- Reinforcing regional mobility through integration with international institutions of higher education;
- Encouraging critical thinking;
- Fostering academic and individual freedom;
- Fostering the spirit of mutuality, tolerance, cooperation, and solidarity;
- Strengthening the role and the contribution of NGO's and other organizations and associations in the educational reform;
- Networking for broader European cooperation;
- Halting of the on-going brain-drain process by stimulating the young teaching staff to continue their careers at the Universities in the Region.