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The first day of the event was open for the wider audience and all interested stakeholders from Europe and South Africa. The wide range of topics addressed on the first day included opportunities and challenges of higher education internationalisation in South Africa and Europe, ways of becoming a globally engaged university, building networks and strategic partnerships, internationalisation and decolonisation, and many other pertinent questions in the South African higher education landscape. The second day of the IMPALA conference was a closed event, only for IMPALA partner institutions. During this day, all staff members that were involved in project activities and who developed materials came together to discuss further in depth the results achieved during the project. Five training sessions were held, one for each working group. The one on Internationalisation Strategies, of which ACA was part, was coordinated by Anders Ahlstrand of ACA’s member organisation Swedish Council for Higher Education, and by Cornelius Hagenmeier of the University of the Free State. It brought together the leadership of the four South African partner institutions to discuss the progress made through IMPALA and further improvements needed in the development of institutional internationalisation strategies.