The online launch event will take place on February 7 OBREAL, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Association of African Universities, and Symbiosis International University will launch a Youth Incubator for Artificial Intelligence on February 7. The program is a five-year initiative to encourage university students to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tackle the world’s most pressing…
OBREAL, together with partners from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, is preparing a series of online seminars for postgraduate students, professionals and higher education institutional leadership from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The online seminars will have a training component and will target the following topics: food security, climate change, teacher training,…
OBREAL has carefully studied the Concept Note released by Brazil for its 2024 G-20 Presidency and welcomes its three priorities: social inclusion and fight against hunger and poverty, sustainable development and energy transitions; and reform of global governance institutions. It also considers enlightening to summarize the current global challenges in a single word: inequality. On…
In the framework of the HAQAA initiative and the European Higher Education Area’s (EHEA) Global Policy Dialogue OBREAL hosted on January 17-19, an African-European dialogue among representatives of governments, organizations and Higher Education Institutions from Africa and the EHEA at the University of Barcelona. Around 70 people attended the various conferences and keynotes, during which…
During 2023, OBREAL played a key role in generating interregional dialogue and cooperation as well as sharing knowledge and building capacities. INTERREGIONAL DIALOGUES In 2023, we organized several interregional dialogues between regions from all over the world. Some of them were physical meetings, like the Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development in Buenos Aires, which…
OBREAL promotes dialogue and research to help the tourism sector cope with Climate Change Tourism has historically played an essential role in the social and economic development of many regions across the world. But the industry of tourism as a means for development is clearly risky due to the consequences of climate change. Tourism is…
The Organisation Committee of the Second Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean sets the roadmap for the coming months OBREAL hosted in Barcelona a meeting of the Organisation Committee of the “Second Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Shared solutions for…
On October 25, 26 and 27, a study visit of the DIGIGRAD Africa project took place in the Flemish region of Limburg. Hosted by Maastricht University and co-organised by the University of Applied Sciences Leuven (UCLL), it involved all African project partners with participants from South Sudan, Kenya, Burundi and Ghana.The ANIE network (the African coordinators…
In the framework of a study visit of the SUCCESS project to Barcelona, between 10 and 14 October 2022, a delegation of the participating universities from the Balkans was received by OBREAL. The universities represented were the following: The meeting served to present the interregional dialogues that OBREAL leads in different regions of the world…
A delegation of members of the Technological Higher Education Network South Africa (THENSA) paid a fruitful visit to OBREAL the week before hosting the final event of the HERESA project From Monday the 25th until Thursday the 28th of October, OBREAL welcomed a delegation from THENSA in Catalonia, Spain. The visit started in Tarragona with…