By foregrounding successful transnational research projects conducted across Latin America and Europe, this edited collection contests epistemological hegemony and heterogeneity in the academy and highlights feasible models for research cooperation across diverse languages, cultures, and epistemologies.

Manuela Guilherme is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Introduction: Meta-reflections on critical and decolonial 'glocademia' 1. European governance and doctoral education: What is 'higher' in higher education? 2. European and Latin American researchers between mirrors: The internationalization of higher education for social cohesion and equity 3. The impacts of institutional flexibility, incompleteness, and rigidity on the quality of democracy: The building up of historical-oriented concepts 4. The 'glocal' elements in the linguistic atlas of Brazil 5. The complexity and difficulties for crossing barriers to development of software used in international studies 6. Spaces of encounter and misencounter between researchers and local people in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies in fishing villages 7. The EC-MSC Glocademics project at the Universidade Federal da Bahia: Interview with Manuela Guilherme 8. Glocademia: Intercultural responsibility across North/South epistemologies Conclusions: The future of glocal and interculturally responsible academia