Hello ... for seven years my work has consisted of being a Counsellor for a school with children and adolescents between 5 and 18 years old, in addition to forging ties with their parents and a whole educational world internal and external to the establishment. This time has been very valuable to study psychology and deepen the complexity of being, interpersonal relationships and their difficulties.

Already graduated, I was invited by Dr Cristóbal Guerra who works as a lecturer at Universidad Santo Tomas to participate in the research on Global Ethics and the applicability of the Toolkit together with the University of Edinburgh, in which I supported two workshops for 91 researchers from Latin American countries. Additionally, I have been involved in interviewing three researchers learning their reflections on ethical and scientific work both within the university or work environment, as well as the socio-economic and political context of the place where they work, discovering an infinity of nuances and approaches which offers us only one topic of conversation, checking once more that everyone and everything is interconnected.

Global Ethics in its approach to the Research Journey, the Toolkit and the 4Ps encouraged various questions about the way in which research is carried out in South America, from the absence of collective consensus regarding criteria of investigative approaches, even the lack of economic capital and government involvement.

The motivation and openness with which different academics postponed personal responsibilities to share their experiences in this work is surprising, creating warm spaces of friendliness and collaboration of ideas and perspectives. This shows that under appearances or titles, there is the real sphere of the human being, the one who feels, reflects, and is moved by contingency and adversity, convinced that change exists, that we can create a better society.

Likewise, there was a great need to generate academic ties and networks among countries; to contribute knowledge, strategies, collectively elaborating sustainable ideals and projects. In every experience shared, they alluded to the fact that whoever investigates does not do so to feed the trophies in their private library, but to impact the population and the country, especially socioeconomically disadvantaged sectors.

Pondering on ethics in research implied reflecting on current events in each country of origin, rethinking necessities and opportunities, redirecting financial resources, as well as re-signifying beliefs and actions from the same people.  We are in the middle of many changes, such as Covid-19, social and political outbreaks, rumours, alleged lies and truths, transitioning, each professional developing from his or her own trench, doing what they learned and what they think could be done, sometimes without knowing, curiously venturing to look underwater, finding their own truth and revealing it to their environment.

           The interviewees affirmed their intention to continue this investigative task, that opportunities and moments be magnified to establish permanent dialogue among countries, where the State has a leading role in accompanying and learning about the work of universities and teaching researchers as forgers of new intellectual horizons and innovative ways of co-creating reality, impact that is transferred to emerging students through this passion to create and contribute to society.

            Several disputes and conflicts continue to prevail on the continent, some even normalized in the most everyday interpersonal relationships, such as forms of leadership, bureaucracy and their links with individualism: economic and social inequality that defines gaps between doing and not doing, strengthening the lack of opportunity, injustice, discrimination and prejudice; migration and the validation of native peoples, among other issues, were widely discussed indicators as ethical challenges in the research meetings, that is, the patterns of social interaction impact the world of research and vice versa, returning to the ancestral importance of education for all, and how this gestates consciousness as a healing elixir of all the practices of the human being.

Dialogue is the proposal, sharing is the proposal, being loving and close with those who do not see what I see, or who see differently from me. Conversing, but also listening and appreciating the words of another person, regardless of their age, but as a person brimming with stories, other roots, another approach, joys, and dreams. The true ethical power continues to be education, from which values ​​and moral arguments emanate that allow people to coexist collectively and expand their horizons by looking beyond the obvious and certain illusions, making decisions and being truly free.

The Research Journey and the Set of Tools are to remind us of the consensus and how important it is to support people in the ethical universe of actions, how I take care of my research and all those who participated, what I do to reach my objectives sooner, how I act in the face of adversity, frustration, emotions, etc. There is always a line that invites to be crossed, but at what cost, and of course it does not happen only in research, but in all atmospheres of life.

This research in Global Ethics, in addition to its intention to provide answers, has opened a thousand doors and windows of academic and human unknowns, diversity of research purposes, pending issues in each interviewed country related to discomfort, making the work done in a study more flexible, and requiring kind words that embrace us regardless of the language we speak.