" Form a university community with strong ethical principles that create and apply the tools necessary for scientific, technological and cultural development of Bolivian society." University Simon I. Patino was founded on July 23, 2006 and began operations in 2007, after obtaining the relevant Ministerial Resolution. He was born thanks to the initiative of a group of Bolivian scholars, many of them alumni Simon I. Patino Foundation and a team of academic, intellectual, cultural and business personalities, the same as those proposed generate real and significant changes in Bolivian higher education.