OBREAL, as part of its collaboration with Africa and Latin America, is launching an Interregional course on Food Security. A first course of a series of online short courses to facilitate cross-regional exchanges. The courses will take place in the second quarter of 2024. That is, as part of the lead-up to the next inter-regional…
The heavy rain that fell this Wednesday in Buenos Aires did not dampen the cocktail-debate organized by OBREAL at the headquarters of the Delegation of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the Southern Cone. The event was attended by representatives of various public and private organizations from South American and European countries. The discussion focused on…
OBREAL, in collaboration with SARUA (Southern African Regional Universities Association), launched the ENGAGE SDG project this week. This is a three-year Erasmus+ project that aims to: involve Higher Education Institutions with the development of local communities and with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project involves partner universities in South Africa, Mauritius and Zambia,…
OBREAL has organized, with the collaboration of the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), a training course on international project formulation. A workshop delivered in a hybrid form. At the ITBA headquarters in Buenos Aires, OBREAL’s project manager Angel Manuel Rafael and OBREAL’s Strategy Director, Nicolas Patrici, led the session. Meanwhile, Jaume Fortuny, also OBREAL’s…
OBREAL was present at the Extraordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education (GLOCO), held on March 7 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education (GLOCO) The Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications…
OBREAL and the Delegation of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the Southern Cone organize, on March 20 at 6pm (GMT-3), a cocktail-debate to foster dialogue between Europe and South America. To that end, we will address the relationship between University, Research and Knowledge Transfer in these regions. The event, which will take place at the…
The Director of International Projects at OBREAL, Elizabeth Colucci, met with representatives of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), an inter-governmental foundation that supports Policy Dialogue and people-to-people action between 51 Asian and European countries. A meeting that served both organizations to be able to understand better the nature, mission and action areas of each other and…
Higher education as an instrument for reducing social inequalities and building the institutional foundations of democratic systems: the launch of the Julio Cotler Program OBREAL launches the Julio Cotler Program, an initiative that aims to provide a platform for emerging voices. With this goal in mind, the program targets young university students – those who…
OBREAL has partnered with The Commonwealth, the Association of African Universities and the Symbiosis International University to launch an Interregional Incubator for Youth that combines AI, Innovation, and Multilingualism to produce innovative solutions to common challenges. The main goal of the program is to fund and foster innovative ideas which, through the use of Artificial…
More than 200 people attended the inauguration of our new office in Universidad Nacional de San Martín OBREAL staff, members and partners were exceedingly grateful for the positive feedback regarding the launch of a new office in Latin America. More than 200 people met with us onsite or online over two days, enabling us to…