Nationally, the members of ViPU and the Academic group have a central position in the national network for mentoring newly qualified teachers. ViPU-members also lead  the network Nordic Teacher Induction: a cross-sectoral network, which consists of teachers' organisations and researchers in the field of mentoring newly qualified teachers in the Nordic countries.

Internationally, the mentoring environment at IPED has developed collaboration on research and professional development with similar academic environments at universities and university colleges in the Nordic countries and Europe in general. This collaboration is channelled through the Nordic Education Research Association (NERA), the European Educational Research Association – EERA/ECER and the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – (ISSOTL). ViPU members are active with paper presentations, participate in symposia and in international publishing groups in collaboration with researchers from these Nordic and European research networks.