Collaboration in Singapore
KI has formal collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National Dental Centre of Singapore. Activities span from research collaboration to student exchange programmes and collaboration in doctoral education.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Karolinska Institutet’s first collaborative partner in Singapore was National University of Singapore. The first collaboration agreements were signed in 2000, first with the Faculty of Dentistry and then also with the Faculty of Medicine. In the early years, the collaboration focused on Genetic Epidemiology.
Today, NUS is the organisation with which KI researchers co-publish the most. In addition, there are student mobility programmes in several programmes, including Biomedicine and Medicine (see more info below). KI and NUS also have a long-standing collaboration in doctoral education, now in the form of a short-term exchange programme for doctoral students (see more info below).
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Following increasing research collaborations with faculty at NTU, collaborative agreements were signed with NTU in 2008. Today, in addition to active research collaboration, there is a joint PhD programme (double degree programme) and student exchange programmes in Biomedicine.
National Dental Centre of Singapore
About 20 years ago the Department of Dental Medicine at KI initiated a collaboration with National University of Singapore. Since then the collaboration has expanded to include a collaboration with National Dental Centre Singapore, a clinical speciality centre that also conducts research and training. Collaborative links within oral health have also been established with Nanyang Technological University.
More about the collaboration with National Dental Centre of Singapore
Bachelor's and master's education
Several KI study programmes have bilateral exchange agreements with Singaporean universities. For current agreements on student exchange and more information search the map where all agreements can be found.
Doctoral education
Doctoral education collaboration has been a key component of the collaboration between KI and Singapore.
KI has a joint doctoral programme (double degree programme) with Nanyang Technological University and a short-term exchange programme for PhD students with National University of Singapore.
Collaboration - researcher to researcher
KI has agreements at different levels with different institutions in Singapore, but the majority of the activities with Singaporean collaborators takes place between researchers and are not regulated by central managing initiated university agreements and projects.
KI researchers had more than 830 publications in total together with researchers during the last five years. The three organisations that KI co-publishes the most with are: National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
Funding and scholarships
Funding and scholarship opportunities in Singapore for students, doctoral students and post docs:
- The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
- NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
- The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) – scholarship programme for PhD studies
- The Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) supports top international students for short-term research attachments at A*STAR's national research institutes and consortia. SIPGA is open for students in Biomedical, Science and Engineering related disciplines.