SINS is based on a partnership of universities, all of whom are hosting centers of excellent narrative study. The following are members of the SINS partnership:
- University of Groeningen (Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar)
- University of Aachen (Jan Alber)
- University of Tartu (Marina Grishakova)
- Tampere University (Maria Mäkelä)
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Aalborg (Lisa Gjedde)
- University of Oslo (Jakob Lothe)
- Giessen University, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
- University of Southern Denmark (Per Krogh Hansen)
- University of Leuven (Jan Baetens)
- University of York (Richard Walsh)
- Kings College London (Alexandra Georgakopoulou)
- University at Buffalo, New York (Colleen Culleton)
- University of Bucharest (Cosima Rughinis)
- Technische Universität Braunschweig (Rüdiger Heinze)
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Pia Masiero)
- Vienna University (Eva Zettelmann)
- Bilkent University (Katarzyna Bartoszynska)
- Université de Strasbourg (Anne Bandry-Scubbi)
- University of Salzburg (Ralph Poole)
- University of Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3) (Isabelle Poulin)
- University of the Arts Helsinki (Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski)
- Universität Trier (Hilary Dannenberg)
- University of Helsinki (Lars Lundsten)
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Ovidiu Gavrilovici)
- Linnaeus University (Liviu Lutas)
- Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro" (Stefania Sini)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Ilya Kiriya)
- Newcastle University (Stacy Gillis)
Becoming a member of the SINS partnership is open to all interested universities and requires only a partnership coordinator (a senior staff member) who is interested in the field and interested in having the possibility of alerting postdoctoral students and fellow staff members of the existence of the institute. Feel free to contact Stefan Iversen (norsi@cc.au.dk) regarding partnership status.