By Nina Volles This year, I had the privilege of serving on the selection committee for the VLIRUOS Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) call that will launch new twelve-year partnerships in 2026. With the results now public, it feels like an important moment to step back and reflect on what this process reveals about long-term higher education cooperation, and what it tells us about the state of equitable North-South partnerships today. What makes the IUC model stand

By Dr Nina Volles Every so often, a piece of writing lands not just in our inboxes, but in our gut. It disrupts. It clarifies. And it refuses to be shelved as “an interesting read”. Anne Menzel’s paper, Situating liberal rationality: unacknowledged commitments in progressive knowledge production and policymaking, is one of those. Published as SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 23, it challenges the foundational assumptions of how we think, work, and justify what we do in international

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