International Exchange Agreements
NIPR concludes research agreements and memorandums of understanding with foreign universities and research institutes for the sake of promoting collaboration projects, academic exchange and graduate university education.

A signing ceremony was held with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Peru to sign a memorandum of cooperation on the field of Antarctica, in September 2023

The 24th Annual General Meeting of Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (A-FoPS) was held in NIPR in October, 2019.
International exchange agreements

As of April 2025
1 |
Argentine |
The National Directorate for Antarctica of the Argentine Republic |
2 |
Australia |
Australian Antarctic Division |
3 |
Australia |
Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
4 |
Australia |
Geoscience Australia |
5 |
Australia |
Macquarie University |
6 |
Australia |
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University |
7 |
Belgium |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
8 |
Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles |
9 |
Belgium |
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences |
10 |
Canada |
Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) |
11 |
Canada |
Centre for Northern Studies (CEN), Laval University |
12 |
Chile |
Chilean Antarctic Institute |
13 |
China |
Polar Research Institute of China |
14 |
Czech |
University of South Bohemia |
15 |
Denmark |
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) |
16 |
Finland |
Finnish Meteorological Institute |
17 |
Finland |
University of Helsinki |
18 |
France |
Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) |
19 |
France |
Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN) |
20 |
France |
Institut Paul-Emile Victor |
21 |
Germany |
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research |
22 |
Iceland |
Science Institute, University of Iceland |
23 |
India |
National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences |
24 |
India |
The Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Department of Science and Technology of India |
25 |
Italy |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Recherche |
26 |
Korea |
Korea Polar Research Institute |
27 |
Korea |
Korea Institute of Construction Technology |
28 |
Malaysia |
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
29 |
New Zealand |
Victoria University of Wellington |
30 |
Norway |
Norwegian Polar Institute |
31 |
Norway |
University Centre in Svalbard |
32 |
Norway |
Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
33 |
Norway |
UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
34 |
Norway |
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research |
35 |
Norway |
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) |
36 |
Poland |
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
37 |
Peru |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Peru |
38 |
Russia |
The Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (MPI) |
39 |
Russia |
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) |
40 |
Spain |
Basque Centre for Climate Change-Klima Aldaketa Ikergai (BC3) |
41 |
Spain |
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Kingdom of Spain |
42 |
Sweden |
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) |
43 |
Sweden |
Stockholm University |
44 |
Swiss |
Swiss Polar Institute |
45 |
Turkey |
TÜBİTAK MRC Polar Research Institute |
46 |
UK |
British Antarctic Survey |
47 |
USA |
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks (IARC) |
48 |
USA |
SETI Institute |
49 |
USA |
University of California, Santa Cruz |