Collaboration in Africa

Through research cooperation, student exchanges, international networks, and projects, Lund University collaborates with universities in Africa. On a university-wide level, we are part of the SANORD network and the three-year collaboration project SASUF, among others.

Lund University collaborates with partners in Africa within the following areas:

research
learning and education
innovation
commissioned education
student mobility – exchange semesters, courses and internships.

Cooperation exists in more than 40 African countries and is most extensive in South Africa.

Southern African–Nordic Centre (SANORD)

SANORD is a member organisation consisting of universities in the Nordic region and southern Africa.

The aim of the network is to facilitate, expand and strengthen collaboration and contact between higher education institutions in southern Africa and the Nordic region.

This is achieved through, among other things:

an annual conference
funding of mobility for Master's students from southern Africa
so-called 'seed-funding' for research collaboration and
a three-minute thesis competition for PhD students.

SANORD is coordinated by the secretariat at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

The network was formed in 2007 and has member universities in southern Africa and the Nordic region.

SANORD website

Student exchange agreements

University-wide, bilateral student exchange agreements exist between Lund University and several South African universities. The links below are to these universities' own websites: