In recent years, Obreal has built an active and growing working relationship with UNESCO, one that takes shape through shared projects, joint participation in high-level spaces, and a common agenda. Obreal’s recent participation in the launch event for the new UNESCO report Trends in Higher Education is the latest example. Obreal’s Senior Advisor, Wail Benjalloun,…
Obreal convened the IMPACT HE Leadership & Stakeholder Forum in Nairobi, bringing together university leaders, policymakers and funding agencies from across Africa and Europe around a shared conviction: universities are more than academic institutions. They are agents of change. More than 100 participants representing 61 institutions from 13 countries participated in a forum that was…
Obreal carried out an intensive agenda of institutional meetings in Bavaria with the aim of strengthening and expanding strategic cooperation between Catalonia, Bavaria, Africa, and Latin America. Over the course of six days, the organization visited entities across various sectors, consolidating existing partnerships and opening new lines of work in key areas such as higher…
The Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has lost more than 90% of its volume over the past decades due to the overexploitation of the rivers that fed it. The desiccation has left behind an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe: contaminated soils, toxic dust storms, the collapse of the fishing industry, and…
Obreal welcomed the African Union Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Gaspard Banyankimbona, to Barcelona for a visit aimed at advancing this year’s Interregional Dialogue activities and strengthening ties with Catalonia’s public, academic, and business ecosystems. Following his participation in the 2025 Interregional Dialogue Annual Conference in Bogotá, Commissioner Banyankimbona traveled to Barcelona to…
Representatives from the public, private, and academic sectors from different regions of the world gathered in Sitges, Spain, to discuss the challenges facing the tourism sector as climate change advances. Taking advantage of the final conference of the CLIMAR project, Obreal and Node Garraf organized an open event with the participation of representatives from the…
Obreal co-organised a high-level international conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 19–20 March 2026, in the lead-up to the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14), to be held from 26 to 29 March 2026 also in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The event was jointly organised with the WTO Chair at the Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun (IRIC), University…
In a context of increasing fragmentation of the international order and questioning of traditional multilateral architectures, the CELAC-Africa High-Level Forum (Bogotá, March 18–21, 2026), promoted by the Vice-Presidency of Colombia, is positioned as a strategic space for the articulation of new interregional dynamics. Invited by the Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, Obreal will actively…
Obreal’s Director for Education Policy and Programs, Elizabeth Colucci, has just concluded three days of intensive meetings with Chinese universities and associations in Beijing, an important step towards opening and consolidating partnerships with the Chinese higher education sector, in pursuit of common development goals. The visits have been facilitated by UNESCO-INRULED, a UNESCO institute based…
Obreal has officially launched the 2026 edition of the Julio Cotler Program at an event held at the Office of the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia in the Southern Cone, in Buenos Aires. The debate and networking event featured the participation of Josep Vives, Delegate of the Government of Catalonia to the Southern Cone;…