March 16, 2001

Bridging the Gap

By COLIN WOODARD

Danish and Swedish universities join forces to create an integrated learning region

With the completion of a massive bridge-and-tunnel project, Denmark and Sweden are now linked for the first time since the last ice age. And universities on both sides of the newly bridged strait, known as Øresund, are leading the effort to forge a single economically competitive metropolitan region across a vanishing national border.

Eleven higher-education institutions in the area have