Dans l'enseignement supérieur, les établissements ne disposent généralement pas des moyens nécessaires à l'acquisition de systèmes de communication par l'image et au paiement de taxes de raccordement. À cet égard, les communications multimédias par RNIS ont permis d'augmenter considérablement l'efficacité de la coopération universitaire favorisée par l'Union européenne.
Within higher education, too, establishments normally do not have the resources to acquire video communications systems or pay networking charges, whereas the very effectiveness of EU-assisted collaboration between higher-education establishments would be considerably enhanced through multimedia ISDN communications, in particular as regards supervision of exchange students doing dissertations and jointly held final examinations, for which time-consuming and costly travel arrangements now have to be made.