Collaboration in Singapore
Karolinska Institutet collaborates widely in Singapore, with partnerships in research, education, oral health, and emerging fields such as quantum technology.
Karolinska Institutet (KI) has formal collaborations with the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the National Quantum Office. Activities include, for example, research collaboration, student exchange programs, and collaboration within doctoral education.
There is also active collaboration in oral health, coordinated at the departmental level, involving partners such as the National Dental Centre Singapore.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Karolinska Institutet’s first collaborative partner in Singapore was National University of Singapore. The first agreements were signed in 2000, initially with the dental school and later also with the medical faculty.
Today, NUS is the organization in Singapore with which KI researchers most frequently co-publish. In addition, there are student mobility programs in several study programs, including biomedicine and medicine. KI and NUS also have a longstanding partnership in doctoral education, now in the form of a short-term exchange program for PhD students.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Following an increase in research collaborations with NTU, collaboration agreements were signed in 2008. Today, in addition to active research collaboration, there are student exchange programmes in Biomedicine.
Collaboration in Quantum Technology between Sweden and Singapore
Since autumn 2025, KI, together with ten other Swedish universities and organisations, has been participating in a collaboration with the National Quantum Office in Singapore. The partnership focuses on cooperation in the field of quantum technology. The aim is to promote long-term collaborations in research, innovation, and industrial applications of quantum technologies.
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
KI has a short-term exchange programme for PhD students with National University of Singapore.
Collaboration - researcher to researcher
KI researchers had more than 800 publications in total together with researchers in Singapore 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: