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Beyond the transaction: commodity trade and sustainable development
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Towards Strong Swiss–African Science Diplomacy
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Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships
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Key Features of Sustainable North-South Funding Instruments
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Practical Turn From Decoloniality to Decolonization: Bridging Scholarship and Practice
This article explores how decolonial principles can be translated into concrete practices for more equitable North-South research collaborations. Drawing on a participatory process, the authors introduce two practical tools that help research partners address institutional power asymmetries and reflect on positionality, knowledge systems, and interpersonal dynamics.
What makes South–North research collaborations transformative? A qualitative study of WASH research partnerships
This paper investigates the barriers to achieving equitable WASH research partnerships from the perspective of six guiding principles for fair and transformative research. Research institutions and funding agencies must align their organisational policies, guidelines, and funding streams to enable transformative collaborative research that benefits all partners.
Mein Kaffee und der Schweizer Rohstoffhandel: Wie werden beide nachhaltiger?
9.7.2026 – Andrea Rauber Saxer vom SECO und Fritz Brugger von der ETH Zürich sprechen über nachhaltigen Kaffee und nachhaltiges Gold und über die Verantwortung der Schweiz als internationaler Rohstoffhandelsplatz.
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Institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations in decolonizing North–South research collaborations: a scoping review
This article seeks to inform the quest to decolonize research collaborations between the North (N) and South (S) that started as early as the 1970s, given the prevailing power asymmetries that continue to hinder equitable collaboration. The article is based on a scoping literature review study that sought to interrogate the institutional settings, power dynamics and motivations employed in past and ongoing N–S research collaborations. The search strategy for the relevant literature was iterative and was implemented between May and November 2023.
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“You can’t solve global problems at a purely national level”
In an interview, Isabel Günther, Professor of Development Economics at ETH Zurich, explains why higher education is a catalyst for Africa’s social and economic transformation – and why a global perspective strengthens the impact of research.
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