Bilateral research cooperation in Cambodia

The overall objective of the research cooperation in Cambodia is to enhance the university´s capacity to develop and sustain quality research and innovation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) that will contribute to the development needs of Cambodia.

The Swedish bilateral research cooperation with Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) started with a pilot phase in 2019. The programme phase is for five years, from 1 January, 2019 to 31 December, 2024.

The Sida programme builds on previous ISP core support to chemistry, mathematics, and physics at RUPP, but is expanded at Faculty of Science to include the Departments of Biology and Environmental Science.

It also covers Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Department of Bioengineering at Faculty of Engineering, and the university’s general support systems including financial administration.

ISP has the task to coordinate the scientific cooperation, Spider at Stockholm University coordinates the ICT part.

Research areas in the programme:

• ICT (coordinated by Spider)
• Science (Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics)
• Bio-Engineering

The Swedish partners in the bilateral programme:

• Linköping University
• Lund University
• Stockholm University
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Umeå University
• Uppsala University