The first Norwegian development programme within the field of higher education and research was the NORAD Fellowship Programme which started in 1962. Since then, higher education and research have been an important aspect of Norwegian development cooperation. Today, more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe are involved in programmes covering most academic disciplines. The programmes involve individual scholarships, bi- and multilateral research projects, and South-South cooperation programmes.

• Fighting Poverty Together. Report No. 35 to the Storting (2003 - 2004)
• Strategy for strengthening research and higher education in the context of Norway's relations with developing countries. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair
• NORAD invests in the future. NORAD's strategy for 2000 - 2005 (pdf-document)
• Fighting Poverty. The Norwegian Government's Action Plan for Combating Poverty in the South towards 2015
• Education - job number 1. Norwegian Strategy for Delivering Education for All by 2015 (pdf-document)
• Internationalisation of Norwegian higher education (in Norwegian)
• Felles kamp mot fattigdom (in Norwegian)
  

• Studying in Norway
• Studying in a Nordic country
• Norwegian institutions of higher education
• Norwegian Council of Higher Education
• NORAD
• UNESCO education
• World Bank Education
• United Nations Millenium Development Goals