ASIIN is a registered association in accordance with the law of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The association is supported by many organizations, which view the quality of university education as a central concern. They are associations of universities and universities of applied sciences, expert societies, profession-related organizations, industrial and business associations and unions.

This alliance was first founded in 1999 as the non-profit association ASII for the accreditation of degree programmes in engineering an informatics, which rapidly expanded to ASIIN in 2002 by including the fields of natural sciences and mathematics.

Since 2000, ASII or ASIIN has the right to award the accreditation seal of the German Accreditation Council, in addition to the ASIIN quality seal.

ASIIN认证，全名是German Accreditation Agency for Study Programs in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics，即德国工程、信息科学、自然科学和数学专业认证机构。ASIIN认证是德国最权威的自然工程学科领域高等教育学位认证机构（www.asiin.de），是权威的国际学位认证机构，是国际工程教育学位认证体系－华盛顿协议的预备会员，欧洲工程教育项目学位认证体系的创立者及成员。