HEROES European University Alliance, Europe. Piet Van Hove has been appointed as the program manager for the HEROES Alliance, at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Belgium. HEROES is part of the latest group of Alliances selected for funding by the European Commission under its flagship ‘European Universities’ scheme and brings together nine professional higher education institutions from across Europe, focusing on ‘smart regional resilience’. Piet has been active in the field of international higher education for almost three decades, working for the University of Antwerp but also taking up leadership roles in various international organisations. He served as vice president and later president of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) from 2020 to 2024. Piet is a board member of Taith (Wales) and the NGO