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…
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…
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…