We must continue to supplement the European initiatives with other international partnerships, paying particular attention to partnerships with the Global South. The declining VLIR-UOS grants and the withdrawal of the United States from the international stage are challenging all European universities to take even more responsibility than before and to commit to sustainably maintaining equal partnerships. KU Leuven must have the ambition to play a leading role, in equal partnership with local universities. In new partnerships, we should focus on existing strategic or innovative research and education themes. We will regularly and critically evaluate ongoing partnerships on their merits. We must dare to question or simply discontinue structural collaborations that do not live up to expectations. We will continue to support the more policy-oriented networks (LERU, CESAER, Coimbra, Universitas 21). We will encourage our colleagues to participate more widely in peer intervision activities and in webinars within these partnerships and to make the outputs of the networks more visible to everyone within the university.