The Nordic academic partnership centres aim to strengthen collaboration between the Nordic countries and their respective partner regions. They facilitate joint research, educational programmes, and cultural exchange across universities and disciplines.
The centres seek to build long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships that address global challenges through knowledge sharing.
You can find more information about the centres below.
The Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC) is a partnership between the eight Danish universities, the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). The overall aim of SDC is to promote and strengthen collaboration between Danish and Chinese research and learning environments for the benefit of both countries.
SDC is located in the House of the Danish Industry Foundation at UCAS' Yanqihu Campus in Huairou, 60 km north of Beijing. On a daily basis the building is frequented by 200 Master’s degree students, PhD students, teachers and researchers, guests and staff.
Each year more than 200 academics staff members from the Danish universities conduct research and teach in China within the framework of SDC. Almost 200 Danish PhD students have been financed by SDC and more than 1,000 Master’s degree students have been enrolled at SDC.
SDC offers eight master's degree programmes jointly developed by Danish and Chinese research environments:
· Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
· Public Management and Social Development
· Life Science Engineering and Informatics
· Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
· International Food Quality and Health
Aarhus University holds a collaboration agreement with the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai, China. The partnership covers student- and staff exchange and academic collaboration.
Aarhus University is a member of the Nordic Centre at Fudan University in China. The objective of the Nordic Centre is to foster mutual understanding between Nordic countries and China through the support of Nordic and Chinese students and researchers so that they can obtain a deeper mutual understanding and knowledge of language, culture and society. This is achieved through exchange programmes, seminars, summer school and research collaboration.
28 Nordic member universities from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden along with Fudan University constitute the Nordic Center.
How may AU-researchers use Nordic Centre FUDAN?
Nordic Centre FUDAN supplies both planning resources, financial resources and offers a working place to researchers from member universities who wish to set up conferences and seminars at Nordic Centre FUDAN.
Nordic Centre, Fudan University
220 Handan Road
Shanghai 200433
P.R. CHINA
Nordic Centre India is a network of 19 Nordic universities and institutions with research and education interests in India and Southeast Asia. There is an NCI office in one of the Nordic member universities as well as an office and a small Guest House in New Delhi.
Nordic Centre India offers targeted courses to Nordic university students both as short summer programs and semester stays. The courses are taught in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai. NCI assists in obtaining researchers permit both from the Nordic office and from the office in Delhi.
Particularly for AU staff and students:
NCI offers its member universities an opportunity to establish and conduct cooperation in research and higher education between the Nordic countries and India in a cost-effective way without having to hire extra personnel. NCI as provides help in arranging workshops, conferences as well as research and teaching co-operation which promote Indian research in the Nordic countries and Nordic research in India.
NCI supports 6 scholars annually from member universities travelling to India for the purpose of research with an NCI travel grant.
SANORD (the Southern African-Nordic Centre) promotes dynamic multilateral cooperation between research institutions. SANORD is a non-profit, membership organization of institutions of higher education and research, committed to advancing strategic, multilateral academic collaboration between institutions in the Nordic and the Southern African regions, as they seek to address new local and global challenges of innovation and development. Its activities are based on the relationships of trust built up between the regions over many years.
The Southern African-Nordic Centre is a partnership of 23 research-based higher education institutions from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Malawi, Zambia and South Africa.
For more information about Sanord contact: Katrine Solvang, Dean’s Office, Faculty of Arts
