As an organisation that supports inter-regional, South-South-North collaboration in the higher education and research sectors, OBREAL Global is delighted to team up with THENSA and this dynamic consortium to help inspire concrete higher education reforms at multiple levels in South Africa. OBREAL Global is not only supporting the management of the project, but is promoting HERESA as a pilot that could inspire similar networks of higher education reform experts in other regions, which serve as a bridge between practice and policy. Given OBREAL Global’s extensive experience in internationalization and innovation of learning, we hope to build bridges between higher education practitioners in South Africa and those in Europe and other world regions which share similar challenges and goals. We are also constantly learning through internal collaborations like HERESA, and welcome the development of dynamic communities of practice around such globally relevant topics as competence-based learning, entrepreneurship and work-integrated learning.