General collaborations

Lund University and the Faculty of Medicine are engaged in numerous international networks and collaboration agreements in both education and research. As an employee, you can start from existing agreements in undergraduate and postgraduate education. It is also possible to put individual agreements in place in conjunction with an exchange.

Lund University’s international collaborations (Lund University Staff Pages)

International networks relevant to the Faculty of Medicine

U21 Health Science Group

The Faculty of Medicine is a member of a global network called the U21 Health Science Group consisting of 19 universities with faculties of medicine. The network is divided up into subject groups that meet regularly for virtual meetings and the planning of various activities. The network holds an annual student conference around the global Sustainable Development Goals, as well as an annual summer school and an annual meeting in the network.

About the U21 Health Science Group on the network's website

EUGLOH

The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) is a European network consisting of 9 universities.

About the EUGLOH, its focus and what it means for Lund University (Lund University Staff Pages)

LERU

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a network of 23 European universities with the aim of strengthening European research, education and innovation and of developing best practice by exchanging experience.

About LERU (Lund University’s central website)

Collaborations in undergraduate education

Read here about Faculty-wide programme-specific bilateral collaborations and University-wide collaborations for student exchanges at undergraduate level.

Collaborations in postgraduate education

The Faculty of Medicine has a number of collaboration agreements with foreign universities with joint programmes and double degrees. This gives doctoral students an opportunity to access leading edge skills at two or more universities and to get their training in different academic cultures.

Joint and double degrees for PhD students

Initiating educational collaboration

The International Office at the Faculty of Medicine draws up, examines and negotiates international cooperation agreements and project applications concerning undergraduate, postgraduate and teacher mobility. These agreements or projects must be consistent with the interests of the Faculty and of Lund University. 

Contact the International Office at an early stage if you want to influence the content of agreements or project applications. Together we can draft an agreement or project application that is in line with everyone’s interests.

• Before an agreement is written, you should find out what agreements already exist between Lund University and the university you are interested in. 
  Lund University’s collaboration agreements with foreign universities (Lund University Staff Pages)
   
• To quality assure the agreement-drafting process you have access to guidance, advice and templates:
  Contract law (Lund University Staff Pages) 
   
• For information about who has the right to be an authorised signatory of educational agreements at the Faculty of Medicine, see the link below.
  Regulations about the allocation of decision-making powers and the right to sign agreements at Lund University (in Swedish, PDF 352 kB, new tab)