The CASI project

The starting point is that changes in the world around us have made international academic collaboration more complex.

Factors that have contributed to increased complexity are:

• geopolitical changes,
• security policy conflicts,
• decline of democracy, and
• reduced scope for academic freedom.

Institutions of higher education need a solid basis to manage changes and to make strategic decisions regarding international collaborations. Risk assessment needs to be strengthened, exit strategies designed and security awareness increased.

By exchanging knowledge and experience, using each other's competences, and coordinating external monitoring and analysis, the idea is that CASI can streamline and ensure the quality of international work. The idea is also to create a better opportunity for rapid information sharing and analysis in the acute stages of events.

What does CASI do?

Since 2020, the CASI project has developed a framework with a checklist to identify various challenges and risks in connection with international collaborations. Expertise and existing processes have been mapped, benchmarking in relation to other countries and universities has been carried out, and workshops around various case studies have been designed.

The CASI project has also conducted webinars since 2021 open to all higher education institutions in Sweden, one on prerequisites for academic cooperation with Russia and one on cooperation with East Africa.

Webinar

Academic cooperation with the USA

Welcome to a CASI webinar where you will learn more about how research funding works in the USA and the relationship between universities, states and the federal level. The aim is to increase the understanding of how Swedish higher education institutions and academic collaboration with the USA may be affected by current changes in the country.

• Date: 12 May 2025 at 15:00–16:00
• Registration to the webbinar - Zoom
• Participants:
  • Maria Brogren, Innovation and Research Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC
  • Ginna Lindberg, Sveriges Radio's Washington correspondent

In addition to this website, information about upcoming webinars is disseminated through the universities' network for strategic internationalisation (UNSI/HÖNSI).