Swedish language studies
One of the main tasks of the Swedish Institute (SI) is to be a liaison and provide services that facilitate instruction in Swedish language and literature at universities and university colleges abroad.
Swedish instruction is provided at some 220 universities in over 40 countries worldwide, except from Africa. The greatest concentration of university-level Swedish instruction is found in Germany, the United States and Russia. Swedish is often included in degree programs in Germanic languages, Scandinavian studies or the equivalent. Instruction is largely provided by non-Swedes.
The Swedish Institute
- supports Swedish instruction at about 220 universities by supplying educational materials: books, subscriptions to periodicals
- organises conferences for teachers of Swedish abroad
- offers a tutored web course in Swedish for beginners.
The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) is responsible for the instruction received by children and young people at Swedish schools abroad, while adult education at a non-academic level is supported by the Royal Society for Swedish Culture Abroad (Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt).