The INIHE shall be a non-proprietary autonomous consortium providing voluntary service to the higher education sector with a nonprofit motive. The INIHE shall function from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) as its Headquarters and Secretariat, and shall reach out to all member universities/institutions of AIU having experience and expertise in internationalisation to become members of this new network. The INIHE will seek to enrol universities, international educators, other international and national networks, individual faculty, administrators, research scholars, and heads of apex agencies such as FICCI, as its members (and associate members) who will support the objectives of the network. The functions of the INIHE inter alia will be to act as an advisory body to the GOI and higher education institutions on matters relating to internationalization of higher education as highlighted below: