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New Nordic Master programme launched

19.05.15 | Fréttir
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The best working example of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ objective to boost the internationalisation of higher education in the Nordic region, Nordic Master, took another step forwards on 19 May with the launch of its latest programme, Cold Climate Engineering, at DTU in Copenhagen. The launch was marked by a speech by the Danish Minister for Nordic Co-operation, Carsten Hansen.

The programme has been designed specifically to focus on the growing interest in the Arctic. Its objective is to train engineers with specialist expertise in industries operating in extremely cold conditions.

The Cold Climate Engineering programme will be the seventh within the framework of the strategic Nordic Five Tech university network, which consists of five leading technical universities in the Nordic region. The institutions working together in this Nordic Master programme are DTU in Copenhagen, Aalto University in Helsinki, and NTNU in Trondheim. With this, DTU is participating in its seventh Nordic Master programme. The other universities in the Nordic Five Tech are Chalmers in Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Nordic Master was born out of an initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and the programme seeks to develop and facilitate co-operation between universities and colleges in the Region. One of the ways of achieving this is to systematically identify and overcome barriers and challenges in the organisation of joint degree programmes. Since the programme was started in 2007, Nordic Master has played an important role in increasing mobility for both students and academic staff in the Region.

40% of those who have participated in the Nordic Master programmes have been from the Nordic region. 20% of students have come from other parts of Europe, and 40% from the rest of the world.

“Our internationalisation objective of attracting students from other parts of the world to the Nordic region has been achieved,” says Anders Geertsen, the Head of the Department for Education and Welfare in the Nordic Council of Ministers. 40% of those who have participated in the Nordic Master programmes have been from the Nordic region. 20% of students have come from other parts of Europe, and 40% from the rest of the world.

The programme enables universities and colleges to work together to develop specialist expertise which they otherwise would not be able to achieve on their own. All academic disciplines can apply for funding. So far, 23 programmes have received funding over a wide range of subject areas. 

Since the programme began in 2007, Nordic Master has played an important role in improving mobility for both students and academic staff in the Region.

The mobility of Nordic students in relation to other European students is presented in detail in the research report “Higher Education in the Nordic Countries”, which was published in early May.

The report “Joint Degrees in the Nordic Countries”, which is due to be published in the next few days, offers an analysis and solutions to the challenges that universities have faced in organising Nordic Master programmes.