At the end of April 2012, encouraged by the call made by the 35th General Congregation to promote international networking, a group of Jesuits and lay partners from all over the world gathered at Boston College, USA to reflect on the matter. The group reviewed the concept and current experience of networking, its relationship to the universal mission of the Society of Jesus, its spiritual foundations and heritage, its organizational and governance mechanisms, and the challenges that it poses to the present structure and way of proceeding.

On December 17, 2012 the final document of the conference was released and sent out to the whole Society of Jesus to share this systematisation and promote reflection on this new organizational challenge posed to our international body by the demands of our universal mission.

A website, www.jesuitnetworking.org, has been developed as a unique reference or platform to promote reflection and dialogue on the subject.   The final conference document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese can be downloaded from the website, along with other papers on Jesuit networking.  This is an initiative of the Jesuit Institute, the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College, and Entreculturas – Fe y Alegría Foundation, in collaboration with the Secretariat of Collaboration of the Society of Jesus.