Developing countries research cooperation

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UiB’s partnerships

Examples of cooperation in Africa include the University of Makarere in Uganda, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and several South-African universities. In Asia, UIB cooperates namely with the Tribhuvan University in Nepal, the Dhaka University in Bangladesh and the Tibet University, and in Latin America with Universidad de Costa Rica, to name a few. More information can be found in the list of UiB's bilateral agreements.

Programmes for cooperation with developing countries
Research cooperation between UiB and the South has mainly been supported by the following initiatives:

•  NUFU: Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Higher Education, financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and administered by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU)
• Programmes administered by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), such as the South African - Norwegian programme for research co-operation (see the section Internasjonalt on the RCN’s web site)
• Programmes run by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
• Initiatives of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see Aid schemes and stipends)

Projects at UiB

The main collaboration areas involve international health, medicine, natural sciences, poverty and resource management. Among others, the following projects coordinated by UiB should be mentioned:

• Nile Basin Research Programme, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the University of Bergen
• Global Moments in the Levant, supported by the Research Council of Norway
• In the wake of colonialism, supported by the Research Council of Norway

UiB centres

Additional information is also available on the websites of UiB centres that have strong partnerships with institutions in developing countries, namely the Centre for International Health (CIH) - the largest of its kind in Scandinavia – the Centre for Development Studies and the HEMIL-Centre.