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In 2008, the 35th General Congregation identified the challenges of globalization to the mission of the Society of Jesus and, at the same time, highlighted the potentialities of being and acting as a universal body. International and interprovincial collaboration have been strengthened to improve the apostolic work and networking has been marked as one of the ways to do it. “We encourage the Society’s government, at all levels, to explore means by which more effective networking might take place between Ignatian and Jesuit apostolic works.”1 In 2016 the 36th General Congregation continued this reflection highlighting even more the importance of Networking as one of the key perspectives in our contemporary way of proceeding, encouraging the different governing bodies of the Society of Jesus to “actively facilitate, foster, accompany and evaluate international and intersectoral networks.”2 As GC36 posed it, there is a clear need of research, systematization, and formulation of challenges and potentials of the Jesuit international network of institutions in
order to ease and maximize its impact as a transnational body with a clear universal mission.