DTU cuts collaborations with Chinese and Iranian universities over security concerns

“It is not our task to help strengthen the Chinese and Iranian military,” says DTU’s Vice Chancellor.

In February this year, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) launched a badly-received awareness campaign in several of Denmark’s technical and scientific institutions, in which posters and coffee-cup slogans warned of Russian, Chinese and Iranian espionage. Photo: Thibault Capelle, Niels Bohr Institute.

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has announced that it will cut cooperation with eight Chinese and three Iranian universities for fear of indirectly contributing to Chinese and Iranian military research, according to Radio4. Vice Chancellor Rasmus Larsen told DR that the purpose of the boycott is to “limit inappropriate transfer of knowledge”.  A large […]


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