Obreal was honoured to participate in the Joint Meeting of Ministers of Education, Training, Science, Technology and Innovation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 17 to 20 June 2025. This high-level gathering marked a key milestone for the 16 Member States of the Southern African Development Community, who jointly…
As the European Commission prepares its proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028–2034, Obreal, together with its partners from the Forum on Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Group (S-DHG), has co-developed a joint position paper. The document highlights the strategic importance of higher education and research within the EU’s global development…
OBREAL expresses its support to the Argentine university system after the Argentine universities, through the National Interuniversity Council, have expressed deep concern about the situation of scientific research. Therefore, they call on all those involved in the production of scientific knowledge in this country to mobilize in defense of the public university on April 23….
Among the attendees at the inauguration of our new office for South America will be Argentinean government authorities and the Spanish and EU ambassadors to Argentina OBREAL inaugurates its new office for South America on February 19-20 in a hybrid and open event. OBREAL’s office for South America is essential for our organization to continue…
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…
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…
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…
The Association of African Universities, with the support of OBREAL, is set to organise the 2023 edition of the Conference of Rectors, Vice-Chancellors, and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) from July 4 to 8. The event will take place in Windhoek, Namibia. And is expected to bring together over 800 participants from various regions around…