The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) and the Norwegian Research Council is furthering the cooperation between Norwegian and Indian institutions through a new programme, dubbed "INTPART". 70 million NOK has been designated for the programme.
Norway wants to build strong relationships between research institutions in Norway and abroad and further contribute to making world leading academic research groups. The programme will make it possible for even more Norwegian and Indian institutions and researchers to start a partnership, with India among the focus countries.
Arvid Hallen, Director of the Norwegian Research Council, considers this to be an important programme for making sound institutional cooperations and to further stimulate several research areas.
He said, "In order to develop world class research groups, Norwegian researchers have to go abroad - and researchers from abroad have to come to Norway."
He added that the new programme may cover several different academic activities such as seminars, summer courses and exchange programmes, as well as joint degrees and long term institutional collaborations.
The focus countries are India, China, Japan, Brasil, Canada, Russia, South Africa and USA. Only Norwegian universities, university colleges and research institutes can apply.
