The Institute of History and Area Studies (IHO) of Aarhus University (AU) has been awarded an EU-grant (EuropeAid) to establish and finance a Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus (CISCA) from 15th of December 2009 to 14th of December 2011 coordinating teaching programmes on India and the Indian subcontinent as well as establishing partnerships with Indian universities aimed at facilitating and improving these programmes. It will advance the study of contemporary Indian society, history and language (Hindi) by jointly developing curricula with our partners and establish resources required for high quality teaching and research. AU also offers a Master's Degree Programme in Asian Studies (India And South Asia Studies).
Copenhagen Business School has begun collaborating with the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India since June 2012. For more information, please click here. Copenhagen Business School also has a vibrant Asia Research Centre that offers high-quality research and teaching in the field of Asian studies.
The University of Copenhagen has a Centre of Global South Asian Studies is a trans-disciplinary research centre facilitating research and teaching on South Asia at the University of Copenhagen. They are currently involved in a research project titled ‘Nation in Motion: Globalisation, Development and Governance in ‘New India'’.
The Asian Dynamics Initiative (ADI) promotes interdisciplinary scholarship in Asian languages, cultures, societies, and politics at the University of Copenhagen. Founded in 2008 as a cross-faculty Humanities-Social Sciences program, ADI has created an exemplary environment for both specialized and interdisciplinary research collaborations
INDIABRIDGE is a project under the Centre for Privacy Studies which aims to produce an understanding of the historical notions of privacy in architecture and urbanism since the 17th century were a bilateral mechanism between West and East. This will be achieved by analysing and recording border-crossing patterns and relationships in the built environment between Denmark and India.
University of Eastern Finland, an erstwhile secretariat of the NCI, UEF is strongly committed to building ties in India. A look at their international strategy is a testament to the same. Also, India's Energy and Resources Institute, TERI, became the first partner to set up a branch office at UEF's International University Hub. Click here for more information.
India related research is being conducted at the University of Helsinki through the departments of World Cultures and South-Asian Studies
University of Jyväskylä is a strategic partner in the Global Innovation Network for Teaching and Learning (GINTL) India network in which Finnish higher education institutions together with partners from India co-create research-based solutions to global educational challenges and collaborate in research and education.
University of Tampere India specific research is being conducted at the India Researchers of Finland and CIRCMI - Research on Information, Customer and Innovation Management.
The University of Iceland is home to ASÍS – Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies that aims to increase understanding and appreciation of the Asian region among Icelandic academics, students and general public. ASÍS plays a pivotal role in expanding contacts with Asian or Asia-related institutes of research and higher education at the University of Iceland.
At the University of Oslo cooperation with India focuses on top-level research and interdisciplinarity within broad areas such as energy, equality, climate change and health as well as language and culture. For more information, click here.
The University of Bergen has a vibrant Department of Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) that produces research on India. It also supports the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development
Oslo Metropolitan University engages actively in international research collaboration at the Nordic, European and global level. We currently have nearly 300 partnership agreements with institutions in over 60 countries, including collaboration within research, education and innovation. Click here for more information the same.
Lund University is the home of Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) which is an inter-disciplinary platform that promotes education, research, and information about the countries of South Asia while also also a national open network resource connecting researchers and academics working on projects related to South Asia at universities throughout Sweden and the Nordic countries.
Stockholm University has a Forum for Asia Studies where one can find out about all the research related to India.
Umeå University’s Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine has linkages with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute in Pondicherry. A Vinnova - funded research project on tuberculosis in collaboration with researchers at the Open Source Drug Discovery Unit in Bangalore is also based at Umea. Medical student education is partnered with St. John's Medical College in Bangalore. For more information on Umeå’s India based collaborations please click here.
Uppsala University has a Forum for South Asia Studies which is an interdisciplinary research forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Spanning across six faculties (Theology, Law, History and Philosophy, Social Sciences, Languages, Educational Sciences) researchers at Uppsala University are working on multiple subjects related to the South Asian region.
The Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University and the Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences were part of a research project titled ”Developing a Multisectoral Approach Model for Sustainable Health and Development through Institutional Collaboration between India and Sweden”. Click here for information on other strategic partnerships and collaborations.
For information on exchanges and collaboration at Karlstad University, click here.