Vestas sponsors a global university programme promoting greater cooperation with universities worldwide. Through the coming years, Vestas Technology R&D will sponsor an increasing number of professors, PhDs, and master's thesis students from universities worldwide.

The purpose of the Global University Programme is to expand Vestas' cooperation with universities and thus accelerate its global wind power research. Vestas is currently cooperating with several universities worldwide, including the Technical University of Denmark/RISOE and Aalborg University in Denmark, Cambridge University and Imperial College London in the UK, Delft University of Technology in Holland, Tsinghua University in China and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Following Vestas Technology R&D's international expansion, the company is continuously developing new cooperation agreements with international university partners.