Dialogue Spaces are the different forms the Interregional Dialogue Process takes throughout the year: webinars, thematic discussions, pilot initiatives, mapping exercises, international conference participations, and the annual conference.
Each of these spaces brings together governments, universities, multilateral organisations and knowledge networks to shape shared priorities, exchange knowledge and build common ground across regions.
2026 DIALOGUE SPACES
MAZUNGUMZO YA NNE YA KIKANDA
ELIMU NA MAENDELEO
Amerika ya Kusini, Karibiani, Afrika, Ulaya na Ulimwengu wa Kiarabu
A political dialogue where governments, universities and knowledge networks co-create a shared interregional agenda on education and development.
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Perspectives from Different Souths on Higher Education and Research International Partnerships
Organized by Obreal and the Finnish National Agency for Education
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Climate change and tourism: The Role of Universities from Latin America, Europe and Africa
Organized by Obreal
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Practices in Shaping Human-Centered AI Integration in Education
Organized by Obreal, UNESCO INRULED and GSE Net
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Staying Human in the Age of AI: Youth Voices on the Future of Learning
Organized by Obreal, UNESCO INRULED and GSE Net
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Digitalization of Quality Management
Trade and Multilateralism
CONFERFENCE
Revisiting the multilateral Trading system from a South-South-North(s) perspective
Education and Development
WEBINAR
Can Tourism Adapt to Climate Change?
Education and Development
PRESENTATION OF THE DIALOGUE AT
CELAC-Africa High-Level Forum
Trade and Multilateralism
CONFERFENCE
International Trade after the Trump 2.0 Shock
Education and Development
PRESENTATION OF THE DIALOGUE AT
Brazil–Africa Rectors’ Forum
THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
The Interregional Dialogue Process broadened in scope in 2025. While the Third Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development, held in Colombia, was the main event of the year, the process was already bigger than a single gathering. Webinars building on earlier work on women in science, and expanding into peacebuilding, AI and employability, alongside a conference on AfCFTA and higher education integration, reflected a process increasingly attentive to regional specificities and emerging global tensions.
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HOST
KWA MSAADA WA
The Interregional Dialogue Process deepened its African dimension with the celebration of the Second Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development in Ethiopia. The process also expanded its format beyond the Dialogue itself: running a webinar series on women, innovation and science and an online course on biotechnology and food production. The groundwork for the next edition was already being laid, with a pre-launch at CILAC and an official launch convened by the Colombian Government, the African Union, the AAU and ASCUN. A year in which the process consolidated its rhythm, simultaneously closing one edition and opening the next.
co-organized by
KWA MSAADA WA
The process deepened its interregional reach and consolidated the Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development, hosted by the Argentinian government in Buenos Aires, as the central moment of collective reflection. Participation in external spaces such as COREVIP signalled an early commitment to connecting the process with broader global debates.
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The Interregional Dialogue Process took its first steps as a structured space for exchange, bringing together stakeholders from across regions in Barcelona. Alongside the Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development, early webinars on open science and higher education’s role in the SDGs began mapping the thematic ground the process would continue to build on.
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KWA MSAADA WA
