India
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.
Research collaboration
UiO has research collaborationÌýwith Indian partnersÌýwithin the natural sciences, social sciencesÌýand the humanities,Ìýaddressing a wide range of areas. Several of UiO's Centres of Excellence (CoE), both national and Nordic, include collaboration with Indian partners. Below are some specific thematic focus areas for UiO's research collaboration with Indian partners:
Energy, Climate and the Environment
Information Systems and Global HealthÌý
UiO's Department of Informatics, has extensive collaboration with India through the Ìý and Ìýwhich aims to strengthen the development and use of integrated health information systems within a public health inspired framework in India and the South Asian region.Ìý is a dynamicÌý ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ comprising of various entities, including universities, Ministries of Health, international agenciesÌýsuch asÌýWHO and NORAD, and in-country implementing agencies.Ìý
Economic growth, global governance and sustainable development
The Department of Economics atÌýtheÌýFaculty of Social SciencesÌýhosts the , , collaborates with several leading research and higher edcuation institutions in India, such as Delhi School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University as well as with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and the Environment (CECFEE) to address various with a focus on economic growth and sustainable development in India.Ìý
UiO's Ìýconducts research with Indian partnersÌýon Global Governance. An overview of current events and activities relating to India as well as other Asian countries my be found through the managed by SUM.Ìý
Collaboration in educationÌý
Ìýhas extensive cooperation with Indian partners in research and education onÌýSouth Asian politics, society, cultureÌýand languages. The Department isÌýaÌýfounder member of the which offers students both short programs- and semesterÌýlongÌýstudy options in cooperation with indian partners.
UiO has several bilateral agreements with Indian partners, some of which also include student exchange.Ìý
Bilateral agreements
Exchange agreements with universities in India (in Norwegian)