Pontes epistemológicas entre Margens do Sul: cooperação internacional entre Unigranrio (Brasil) e Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo (Moçambique)

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on the meanings and scope of university internationalization among countries of the Global South, based on the experience of academic cooperation between Unigranrio Afya University (Brazil) and the Pedagogical University of Maputo (Mozambique). Located, respectively, in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, and in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, in the south of the country, these institutions signed, in 2023, an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with a view to promoting research, academic mobility and the sharing of knowledge produced in territories historically marginalized within the hegemonic logic of Western science. Based on a dialogue between epistemologies of the South and university macro-management practices committed to epistemic plurality, the text analyzes how South-South international agreements can constitute devices for valuing knowledge matrices considered by the global North as subordinate, promoting exchanges that not only meet administrative protocols, but also reconfigure academic practices and curricula. The article also discusses the challenges of building intercontinental alliances marked by common colonial legacies and distinct and complex socioeconomic realities, pointing out possible paths for strengthening epistemic justice and interinstitutional dialogue on a solidarity basis.