NIIS cooperates with universities and research organisations worldwide, creating opportunities for research, learning, and practical collaboration. We work with academic faculties and research institutes across fields such as computer science, information systems, digital governance, technology, and public policy.

We are open to cooperation in areas related to our work and welcome the academic community to collaborate with our partner organisations and us on real-life cases. NIIS has provided research agenda topics and graduate thesis topics, and students in technology and digital governance have joined our development teams as trainees.

Previous NIIS research project publications are available on the Publications page. Research papers related to X-Road can be found in the X-Road® Document Library.

Internship and open applications are accepted year-round. More information is available on our careers page.

Please contact us to discuss potential cooperation.

NIIS has cooperated with research and academic partners, including:

  • Aalto University

  • CSC - IT Center for Science

  • Demos Helsinki

  • ESADE Business and Law School

  • European Commission, Joint Research Centre

  • Harvard Kennedy School

  • King’s College London

  • Nordic Open Science Cloud

  • Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Sitra (IHAN)

  • SMIT

  • Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

  • Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

  • Tecnalia

  • TOOP

  • University of Buenos Aires

  • University of Helsinki

  • University of Konstanz

  • University of Skövde

  • University of Tartu

  • VTT Technical Research Centre