Research priority areas are e-health and healthcare technology, integrated emergency management, mechatronics, multimodality and cultural change, coastal research. UiA also has a Centre of Excellence in Education – MatRIC Centre for Research, Innovation and Coordination of Mathematics Teaching. UiA also hosts a Centre for Research-Based Innovation: SFI Offshore Mechatronics in close cooperation with the Offshore Industry. UiA also offers one of the largest Teacher Education Programs in Norway.
The University of Akureyri (Háskólinn á Akureyri) is located in the capital of north Iceland and has served Akureyri and its rural surrounding for almost 35 years. While building a reputation for academic excellence and good industrial relations, the university has been instrumental in the area’s economic growth and is central in the area’s future planning as a knowledge-based society.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is a Land, Sea, and Space Grant university and an international center for research, education, and the arts, emphasizing the circumpolar North and its diverse peoples. UAF integrates teaching, research, and public service as it educates students for active citizenship and prepares them for lifelong learning and careers.
As one of the world's most northern research universities, the UofA has historic and ongoing links to Arctic and boreal regions. Northern research and teaching is relevant to all 18 faculties of the University, and actively involves more than 250 faculty and students, whose work addresses a broad spectrum of social and environmental issues as climate change and its human impacts, natural resource development and governance, cultural identity, indigenous self-determination, design, and public health.
The University of Bergen (UiB) is an internationally recognised research university. Academic diversity and high quality are fundamental for us. UiB is the most cited university in Norway.
There are seven faculties at UiB and there are close to 20 000 students at the university. We employ more than 4 200 faculty and staff. PhD candidates are paid employees, making the doctoral degree at UiB particularly attractive for rising talent. About half of graduating doctors are from outside Norway.
Driven by intellectual creativity and critical thinking since 1479, researchers and students at the University of Copenhagen have expanded horizons and contributed to moving the world forward. With its 5,000 researchers and 37,500 students, the University boasts an international research and study environment and is highly ranked on the leading ranking lists of the world's best universities.
UEF is one of the leading multidisciplinary universities in Finland, as well as a university that is internationally recognized for its state-of-the-art research. Its study programmes are of a high standard and they are built on high-level research seeking to find interdisciplinary solutions to global challenges.
UEF offers a great variety of Master’s and Bachelor's degree programmes taught in English, as well as non-degree programmes that cater, in particular, to the needs of exchange students.
University of Greenland is situated in the small but bustling capital city of Nuuk.
University of Greenland has about 650 students spread across four institutes: Institute of Learning, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Institute of Society, Economics and Journalism, Institute of Culture, Language and History
The University of Helsinki is Finland’s largest and oldest academic institution and an innovative centre of science and thinking. Since 1640, It has contributed to the establishment of a fair and equal society that is considered one of the best in the world. Today, its multidisciplinary academic community solves problems that affect us all – with the power of knowledge, for the world.
The University of Iceland, founded in 1911, is a progressive educational and scientific institution, renowned in the global scientific community for its research. It is a state university, situated in the heart of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The University of Iceland is organised into five schools: Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Education, Natural Sciences and Engineering, offering over four hundred different courses of study.
The University of Iceland is the only university in Iceland offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in all major academic fields. The University of Iceland has a great deal to offer both exchange and regular international students, on all academic levels, and most faculties offer courses in English.
JYU is one of the largest and most popular multidisciplinary research universities in Finland. Its campus is home to a dynamic and collaborative community of almost 2,600 experts and 15,000 students. Of all universities in the world, JYU is among the top three percent and represents the best of the world in several of its disciplines.
The University of Lapland combines science and art at the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. Its academic fields are education, law, art and design, social sciences, and northern and Arctic issues. It creates new knowledge, skills, and expertise for the North and for the world.
The University of Northern British Columbia is one of Canada's best small universities. With a core campus in Prince George and regional campuses throughout northern BC, UNBC recognizes the importance of quality teaching, personal attention, ground-breaking research, and being relevant to the North.
The University of Oslo (UiO) was founded in 1811 as the first in Norway. Today it is the country’s largest public institution of research and higher learning with nearly 28,000 students and almost 7,000 employees.
The University of Oulu, founded in 1958, is today one of the largest and leading universities in Finland. The university operates in eight major fields: Humanities, Education, Economics, Natural Sciences, Technology (incl. Architecture), Medicine, Dentistry and Health Care, distributed in six faculties.
A public liberal arts and science institution committed to fostering critical, creative and independent thinking.
The University of Reading has been at the forefront of UK higher education for nearly a century. Over the decades it has become innovators and pioneers, pushing academic boundaries and leading social change.
It strives to create a stronger, better University, building on its past to create an exceptional future. Its four guiding principles form the foundation of its strategies: a genuine love of learning, creating new knowledge, embracing and celebrating diversity of people and ideas, and caring for our environment.
USask is one of the top research-intensive, medical doctoral universities in Canada, and is home to world-leading research in areas of global importance, such as water and food security and infectious diseases.
The University of Southern Denmark welcomed the first students onto the campus in Odense in September 1966, and things have been developing by leaps and bounds ever since. It now have five faculties with more than 27,000 students, almost 20% of whom are from abroad, and more than 3,800 employees distributed across its main campus in Odense and regional campuses in Slagelse, Kolding, Esbjerg and Sønderborg. Several international studies document that it conducts world-class research and are one of the top fifty young universities in the world.
The University of Stavanger is an innovative and international university. It constitutes as a driving force in the development of knowledge and change processes in society. Its societal mission is to challenge the well-known and explore the unknown.
