South Africa
UiO has bilateral relations with South African partner universities in a wide range of subjects and at all faculties. Today South Africa is seen as a strong research partner on the African continent, and is a popular destination for UiO students.
Research collaboration
UiO and its South African partners have many common research interests within areas ranging from astrophysics, geology, climate change and medicine to education, cultural variations in languages, history and religion.
UiO cooperates with all the prestigious universities as well as a number of disadvantaged institutions in South Africa. UiO has considerable researcher-to-researcher cooperation with its South African partners. South African and UiO partners collaborate within Norwegian funding programs and with international funding.
Through UiO’s membership in , UiO is part of a cooperation between The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and the the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) with joint Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE). The CoRE program is a long term cooperation between European and African universities to address societal and scientific challenges framed by the AU-EU Innovation Agenda. The CoREs have several partners from each region and last for the period 2023-2033. UiO is co-lead institution together with the University of Pretoria for the two CoREs on The Politics of Sustainable Development: Squaring the Circle of Science and Democracy (Prof. Dan Banik) and Health, Gender and Sexualities (Prof. K?re Moen).
Collaboration in education and student exchange
UiO has various forms of educational cooperation with South African universities:
- Each summer, UiO's Centre for Entrepreneurship sends 30 students to the University of Cape Town to learn about social entrepreneurship.
- The Faculty of Medicine at UiO and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University have a long history of cooperation including student exchange.
- The Faculty of Dentistry has extensive experience in cooperating with colleagues at the University of Western Cape (UWC). Joint projects that include staff and student exchange have been awarded funding from UTFORSK and Erasmus International Credit Mobility programme. Each spring, UiO dentistry students aquire clinical training at the University of Western Cape (UWC).
Bilateral agreements
Exchange agreements with universities in South Africa (in Norwegian)