KTH's strategic partner universities in Asia
KTH has long worked globally with a number of strategic partner universities and regions. In Asia, KTH has established strategic partnerships with universities Japan, China, India, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
KTH has been involved in strategic partnerships with universities globally for several years. Besides collaborations within various networks, KTH has a long-standing partnership with several universities in Asia, affecting research collaborations, joint programmes, seed funding, joint supervision, and student exchanges.
KTH:s strategic partner universities in Asia:
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- University of Tokyo, Japan
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HKUST is one of the region's most outstanding universities. KTH and HKUST embrace the concept of strategic partnership with a selected number of key international players, where both KTH and HKUST are strategic partners of their choice. The partnership aims to boost joint publications, enhance collaborations among researchers, facilitate student exchange, and collaborate with society at large.
The partnership stretches back to 2014, and there have since been different research collaborations between both universities in mathematics, materials science, IT, and electronics. These collaborations have led to an increased number of co-publications of scientific articles. The partnership has also provided funding for joint research projects. KTH and HKUST have a large student exchange. Each year, KTH receives 18 students from HKUST who study a semester in Stockholm, and just as many KTH students can study a semester in Hong Kong.
KTH has a good network of contacts with Swedish companies active in Hong Kong, which also participate in developing city projects. Hong Kong's Smart City Program is an area in which KTH collaborates with the City of Hong Kong, Swedish companies and HKUST. Another collaboration exists with Hong Kong Science Park, which offers Swedish startups an attractive landing platform, where collaboration with HKUST provides access to its network of contacts.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Based in Chennai, IIT Madras has established itself as India's premier teaching, research and industrial consultancy centre. The collaboration between IIT Madras and KTH has a long history, with both Universities involved in Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window projects and research collaboration between individual faculties. Student mobility started in 2014, and the strategic partnership became active in 2019. Both institutes are also in the Heritage Network between prominent Indian and European Universities.
Like KTH, IIT Madras has advanced research facilities and researchers in most technology-related topics; hence, several research collaborations exist between the faculty. There is joint PhD supervision between research groups, which we expect to grow in the coming years. For example, the International Immersion Experience Scholarship invites three KTH doctoral students annually to jointly supervised research stays at IIT Madras.
The Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme with IIT Madras contributes to raising the quality of higher education and getting greater transparency between education programmes in different countries. The aim of the programme is also to increase competence and quality through internationalisation with selected partners. Staff mobility is available for both teaching and non-teaching staff. There are also student exchanges at the master's and doctoral levels.
Learn more on opportunities for KTH faculty and staff at IIT Madras
Nanyang Technologal University
NTU is one of the world's most prominent universities and an important partner for KTH. The partnership between the universities aims to create opportunities for undergraduate and doctoral students to move between the universities and to stimulate research collaborations in various subject areas.
KTH and NTU have a long history of student exchanges, which started in 2009. Annually, 40 students study for one or two semesters at each partner university.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ranked as one of China's top universities, SJTU is an internationally renowned university in Shanghai that focuses on research. Initially, KTH and SJTU primarily established collaborations within biomedicine, medical technology, and healthcare technology, and these collaborations still have a strong presence in the strategic partnership that has been running since 2016.
The partnership has included several educational and research activities, such as student exchanges, joint programmes, joint research centres, and summer schools. KTH and SJTU have also collaborated with student recruitment, facilitating Chinese students' transition to studies at master's level at KTH.
KTH is a member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China, which has extensive operations in Shanghai. Of all the overseas Swedish chambers of commerce, Shanghai has the highest number of registered companies.
The University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo is Japan's oldest and highest-ranking university, and KTH has a long-standing partnership with the university in general and their Graduate School of Engineering in particular. Japan is a major power in the world of research, accounting for approximately 15 per cent of the world’s research activities. As the largest recipient of Japan’s Ministry of Education’s funding for research within science and technology, the University of Tokyo holds a very central position within Japan’s university sector.
In conjunction with Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University - the university alliance Stockholm Trio - KTH is a joint partner with the University of Tokyo.
Learn more on Stockholm Trio's partnership with University of Tokyo (stockholmtrio.org)
The combined partnership with KTH, KI and SU constitutes one of the University of Tokyo's strategic partnerships, focusing on research collaborations, student and research exchanges, and faculty development. KTH invests in research visits in Tokyo to increase contacts for researchers and teachers at KTH with different research groups at the University of Tokyo. Each year, 10-14 students can study for one exchange semester at each university, making the University of Tokyo KTH's most significant partner for student exchanges in Japan.
KTH and the University of Tokyo also work together within the Deans' Forum university network, which includes institutions such as ETH Zürich, Imperial College London, UC Berkeley and MIT. The primary purpose of this network is to develop the engineering curriculum and industry collaboration.
