International Relations
The Department of Odontology and the School of Oral Health Sciences collaborate with a number of leading universities in the world to facilitate exchange of students and teachers. You can read more about the opportunities to participate in the exchange programme here.
The School of Oral Health Care collaborates with the Greenland Home Rule (Grønlands Hjemmestyre) concerning the training of Greenlandic dental assistants and Greenlandic dental hygienists (KIG).
The Greenlandic training programmes are specifically adapted to the Greenlandic context. The education consists of blended learning as some part is distance learning, some part is taken place at the Peqqissaanermik Ilinniarfik - The Nuuk Health School (Sundhedsskolen i Nuuk), and the rest is training periods at the dental clinics in Greenland. The School of Oral Health Sciences has staff stationed in Nuuk, Greenland, for a considerable part of the year.
Experts from the Department of Odontology and the School of Oral Health Sciences contribute to relevant training activities nationally as well as internationally.
Finally, the Department of Odontology and the School of Oral Health Care take part in various cooperative projects involving international companies and organisations.
The core of such cooperative projects may, for instance, be how education should evolve to match the trends observed in public health internationally, for instance. Specifically, efforts may focus on dental hygienists' role in the preventive efforts targeting elderly citizens in the Nordic countries, or the celebration of summer schools on dental health in developing countries.