header

Welcome!

The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It was established in 2001 with the objective to facilitate cooperation in research and higher education between the Nordic countries and India. Through academic exchange NCI seeks to strengthen Indo-Nordic ties and understanding.

TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Short Term Programmes (7.5/10 ECTS)

Contemporary India
An Interdisciplinary Introduction Course
University of Hyderabad
July 1st to 28th, 2012

Demography, Gender and Reproductive Health
An Introduction to Population Studies in India
International Institute of Populations Sciences, Mumbai
July 8th to August 4th, 2012

Approaching the Environment in India
Issues and Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
June 24th to July 21st, 2012

For more details contact Christabel Royan

SEMESTER PROGRAMS

Fall and Spring Program

Study in India Program
University of Hyderabad
Deadlines for sending in your application
Spring Semester: November 9th
Fall Semester: March 15th

 

RECENT NEWS

NCI is pleased to announce that Dr. Kristina Myrvold will be taking over as director of the NCI from the 1st of March 2012.

NCI has placed a call for applications for the post of Director. The formal announcement can be found here.

NCI held its General Assembly Meeting at University of Eastern Finland on 6th October 2011.

A Hindi Study Programme in Varanasi, jointly organised by the Nordic Centre in India and Gandhian Institute of Studies, was held between the 29th of August to the 2nd of December 2011. This first full semester course had participants from Aarhus University, University of Oslo and Stockholm University. The course was developed by NCI Director Mirja Juntunen, who was also the Academic Coordinator of the course. The course will be given next time in Fall 2012 and will be open for applicants from the NCI Nordic member universities.

NCI has held a workshop on 'Conducting Fieldwork in Asia' in cooperation with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata and the Department of Oriental Languages at Stockholm University from the 5th to 16th of September, 2011 at the former's premises.

NCI has successfully conducted its summer training programmes at Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad for the year 2011.

NCI has officially moved to its new host university - the University of Eastern Finland. We are now located at the Kuopio campus's Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the Unit of Public Health.

UEF Kuopio campus
University of Eastern Finland's Kuopio campus