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“One of the great achievements of JWL has been to refuse false choices. It has refused the choice between quality and access, between global standards and local relevance, between technology and human relationship, between individual advancement and community transformation,” said Dr Richard Brosse, Head of Vital Catholic Thought, Porticus, speaking at Jesuit Worldwide Learning’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (28 September).

The 2026 Summit of the International Association of Jesuit Engineering and Science Schools (IAJES) took place in Manila, Philippines, from July 8 to 10 under the theme “Beyond the Hill: Forging a Shared Future.” The gathering brought together leaders, educators, researchers, and representatives from Jesuit engineering and science institutions across the globe to strengthen collaboration and advance the association’s common mission.

On 30-31 March 2026, the Board of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) met at the General Curia in Rome to review the ongoing implementation of the Strategic Agenda (2024-2028) and the priorities defined at the Assembly in Bogotá in July 2025. At that Assembly, leaders from around the world identified six major challenges at the global level: democracy and global citizenship, student mental and spiritual health, secularization, Artificial Intelligence, migration and refugees, and environmental justice, along with a call to concretely increase collaboration among institutions.

Scholars, researchers, and academic leaders from Jesuit universities around the world gathered from 9 to 12 March 2026 at the Ateneo de Manila University for the Inaugural Symposium of the Global Research Alliance of Jesuit Universities (GRAJU), marking a major milestone in global collaboration among Jesuit institutions of higher education.

The conveners of ten working groups of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) met for the first time in Rome from December 15 to 16 with the aim of fostering collaboration and aligning efforts towards a common vision: Jesuit universities as agents of social transformation in a world that desperately needs it.

This past August, the Jesuit commitment to the Universal Apostolic Preferences came to life through an inspiring global initiative connecting two continents. The Xavier Institute of Engineering (XIE) in Mumbai, India, and the Xavier Jesuit Institute (XJI) in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, joined forces once again to deliver Joy of Python—a program designed to expand educational opportunity and help close the digital divide in the Nigerian cities of Benin City and Lagos.