This article deals with Chilean foreign policy in the League of Nations and specifically analyses the roles assumed by various diplomatic agents in the International Commis-sion for Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute for Intellectual Coopera-tion, institutions whose purpose was to harmonise the troubled inter-war period through education. In view of the scarce historiographical production on this subject, we have resorted, in order to carry out this research, to various unpublished documentary sources from the General Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, the doc-umentation issued by the United Nations and that kept in the National Library of Chile, in addition to the bibliographical consultation of specialists. In this sense, we maintain that the Chilean state's perception of intellectual cooperation is divided into two stages. The first corresponds to an indifferent collaboration in its objectives, while in the sec-ond, it opted for a contribution against the backdrop of Geneva idealism with the aim of becoming a reference in the international community.