Nordic Institutes for Advanced Study, NordIAS
NORDIAS is a network of all the Institutes for Advanced Studies (IASs) in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It was established following the successful completion of a series of workshops entitled Beyond Advanced Studies, initiated by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS). These workshops were funded by a grant from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) and were held between November 2021 and May 2022.
The founding members of NordIAS are:
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark
Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies
Tampere Institute for Advanced Study
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
NORDIAS is at an early stage of development, but offers the potential for a range of cooperation opportunities. These include (but are not limited to): Fellow exchanges; staff exchanges; joint funding applications; joint conferences, symposiums and other public-facing events; sharing best practice in appointing and developing Fellows; offering collective expertise and undertaking joing lobbying. It is anticipated that such work will develop in future years.
University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study, UBIAS
The UBIAS network was initiated in 2010, when representatives from 32 research institutes worldwide met at the conference entitled “University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study in a Global Perspective: Promises, Challenges, New Frontiers,” hosted by the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany. The founding of the first UBIAS dates back more than 50 years. However, the last two decades have seen an upsurge in the establishment of such institutes across the globe – a trend that continues unabated. Unlike traditional Institutes for Advanced Study, UBIAS institutes are associated with or embedded within a university, and actively contribute to the international academic culture and to the major scientific achievements of their home university.