In the National Plan for State University Higher Education (Plans) 2006-2010 it was proposed to promote the development of the State University Higher Education System, an intention that was ratified in the 2011-2015 Plans, approved by the rectors at the end of 2010. In this last document, the system is conceived as the joint work space in which four public state universities, under the coordination of CONARE, seek articulation as a double transit route to establish multiple interrelationships in the areas of teaching, research, extension and social action.

To develop and strengthen this joint work space, the 2011-2015 Plans formulated several system challenges, among which are:

«Articulate a university planning subsystem in which they register and through which the tasks of preparing the short and medium-term plans of the institutions and of the state university higher education as a whole correspond.»

In order to comply with what has been formulated, the CDP proposed the project financed with resources from the System Fund, called “Management for the development of the National Plan for State Higher Education 2011-2015”, which has the general objective of ‘helping to the implementation of the 2011-2015 Plans to strengthen the State Higher Education System ‘and among the specific objectives’ monitoring the Plans’ stands out. For this purpose, the goal was to «Create a monitoring system for the Plans that allows the capture of information, the definition of indicators and the preparation of reports.»