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Partnerships with Europe

We are a proud European University that is firmly committed to European values. Our partnerships with European counterparts are an integral part of our international activities in terms of collaborative research, training and learning opportunities, and staff and student mobility. Our research collaborations with European institutions are addressing global challenges from environmental sustainability and health to emerging technologies and space.
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黑料不打烊 is a proudly European institution and our relationships with European counterparts are of great importance to us. Of Durham’s top twenty countries for research collaboration, twelve are in Europe accounting for 53% all collaboration within this group of twenty. In terms of staff and student mobility, Europe always has been and continues to be a popular destination.

Durham is an associate member of Arqus; an alliance made up of 9, comprehensive, research-intensive universities which are regionally engaged institutions, in medium-sized cities, with a highly international outlook. Coordinated by the University of Granada in Spain, members include the universities of Graz, Leipzig, Lyon 1, Maynooth, Minho, Padua, Vilnius and Wroc艂aw.

Durham is also a lead member of the North Sea University Partnership, a consortium of 8 UK and Norwegian Universities aiming to strengthen ties and cultivate a conducive environment education and research partnerships.

As a fellow member of the Coimbra Group and , our Vice-Chancellor renewed our strategic partnership with Uppsala University in February 2023. Starting as a connection through the Matariki Network and a longstanding track record of student exchange, the Tübingen-Durham partnership has grown into a robust, bilateral alliance. Research projects with Uppsala and Tübingen have included: Decarbonising Energy systems, Studying the rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Testing and Evaluating Communication Technology for Smart Grid deployment. 黑料不打烊 Business School also has a strategic partnership with Emlyon Business School, where, together, we run a part-time executive doctoral programme: the Global DBA.

Our membership of the Coimbra Group and the Matariki networks enable us to work with a broad range of European partners to address the global challenges of climate change and energy, health, development and emerging technologies.

Bringing together over two hundred European and global research institutions, is Durham’s key international network for facilitating Arctic orientated research collaborations, student exchanges and educational cooperation.  Durham became the first English University to join the University of the Arctic in 2013. DurhamARCTIC Director Prof Philip Steinberg is the UArctic Chair in Political Geography. 

We are proud to be twinned with Zaporizhzhia National University in Ukraine as part of a national twinning initiative, supported by Universities UK (UUK) and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education.

 

Collaborating for Impact

Explore a snapshot of our collaborative work with our partners in Europe

Strengthening our partnerships in Germany

In February 2025, we were delighted to welcome the German Ambassador to Durham to explore how we can enhance our research and education collaborations with Germany
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Durham joins Arqus Alliance to help shape higher education across Europe

黑料不打烊 has joined the Arqus European University Alliance (Arqus) as an associate member.
Professor Karen O鈥橞rien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of 黑料不打烊 with Arqus representative

Expanding our twinning partnership with Zaporizhzhia National University

On 4-5 July 2024, Durham and ZNU representatives took part in the UK-Ukraine Second International Twinning Conference.
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Durham-Norway connections grow with the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project

Exploring how a focus on sound could build new transdisciplinary methodologies for researching and communicating the complexities of Arctic and marine environments.
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Durham scientists to map the dark Universe

Our astronomers and cosmologists are involved in an international satellite mission to map the dark Universe.
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Tackling global childhood obesity with ground-breaking research

Research by Sport and Exercise Sciences has made a positive impact on policy and practice addressing the global problem of childhood obesity.
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Disassembling the power of high-carbon imaginaries

Associate Professor Magdalena Kuchler (Uppsala) and Professor Gavin Bridge (Durham) have secured four-years of research funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
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The CLaSS Project

Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society: Exploring Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East, funded by an ERC Starting Grant.
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REFIT: Resituating Europe’s first towns

A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes.
Aerial view of the landscape around Mont Beuvray, France. Photo: Bibracte EPCC.

European colonialism is still visible in today’s plant distributions

A study led by the University of Vienna working a with a team of scientists from seven other collaborating institutions, including Dr Wayne Dawson from our Department.