Recently, many research efforts are directed towards co- evolutionary algorithms. The present work aims at the as- sessment of Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution (HCCE) being properly formulated to address hierarchical problems where simple components having separate design objec- tives, are parts of other more complex ones. HCCE is able to highlight the specialties of each component and addi- tionally enforce their successful integration in a composite structure. Here we present HCCE describing also the inter- nal dynamics that provide its effectiveness in addressing dif- ficult distributed design problems. Additionally, the results described in the present work attest to its validity and su- perior performance against ordinary Unimodal evolution, and Enforced SubPopulation coevolution.