This chapter was written by six Brazilian students who experienced a different form of academic mobility: the Research Tandem Program. This program was created and coordinated by Professor Luca Tateo (University of Oslo, Norway) with the collaboration of professors from the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil) and the East China Normal University (Shanghai, China). The conventional experience of international academic mobility is questioned in the project. The unidirectional flow, the experiences that approach a kind of “academic tourism” and the cultural capital at stake are points from which criticisms of this model arise. Proposing an experience based on cooperation between peers and having the internationalization of scientific production as a pillar, mainly through the development of new ideas, the Research Tandem presents an innovative and promising proposal to rethink academic mobility and collaborative research, as a sign of contemporary science. In addition to the challenges present in the construction of research and data collection, the authors share fragments of field visits and experiences that are grouped into categories involved in knowledge construction: the host experience, approximation with the field, cultural differences, and language issues.