The COPERNICUS Alliance is a European network of universities and colleges committed to transformational learning and change for sustainable development. It aims to enable European higher education institutions and their partners to jointly identify challenges in higher education for sustainable development and spearhead development of processes, tools, and knowledge to address these challenges from a whole-institution perspective. IAU and COPERNICUS Alliance signed a partnership agreement in 2016 and have collaborated ever since on various projects for HESD, including the virtual Higher Education Summit 2020 (HES2020).