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Collegium Budapest, an Institute for Advanced Study and a Centre of Excellence

Collegium Budapest has been operating for 17 years now. The purpose of Collegium Budapest is to promote culture and the sciences by giving internationally recognized academics and young researchers an opportunity to pursue research of their choice in an international, intellectually stimulating environment. Following the model of the pioneering Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar (NIAS), the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala (SCASSS) and other similar institutions (see list of related institutions on the Networking page), Collegium Budapest is the first IAS-type institute in the post-communist region.

By inviting outstanding Western and Eastern scholars to Budapest and offering them a common temporary workplace in the intimate medieval Castle district, the institute strove to rebuild – after 50-year-long isolation – the international contacts of scholars and academic institutions in the CEE region. In the course of these 17 years, Collegium Budapest has emerged as a major international academic centre and a model for new forms of academic co-operation, where such core research and fundamental scholarship are fostered that enable the institute to significantly contribute to the stemming of brain drain still prevailing in the region. It has given birth to many innovative, individual and institutional joint projects conducted by scholars from the West and CEE.

Eurias Fellowships The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility scheme offering fellowships for the 2011/2012 academic year. The Programme funds 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes (Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar) and builds on the reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study to host excellent scholars who concentrate on their own research in the stimulating environment of an international fellow community. Collegium Budapest is one of the participating institutes. Call for Application for 2011/2012. Deadline: 10 September 2010. More details

News CRASSH Announces Visiting Fellowship Competition for 2011/2012     Application Deadline: 1 November 2010 New Europe College Announces Competition for Fellowships for 2011/2012 (July 2010)     Application Deadline: 15 November 2010 Excursion to Királyrét (July 2010)     Collegium Fellows and Staff Go to Excursion to Börzsöny Mountains Classics and Communism Focus Group holds Conference and Sees Archaeological Excavation Sites. (June 2010)     The CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM - GNÔTHI SEAUTON! Focus Group held a three-day conference late in June followed by an excursion to two principal archaeological excavation sites, one at Dunapentele (now Dunaújváros) and the other at Tác (Gorsium). More photos Permanent Fellow Emeritus János Kornai publishes 'Liberte´, E´galite´, Fraternite´: Reflections on the Changes following the Collapse of Communism' in European Review. (June 2010)     János Kornai homepage CAS announces call for application for 2011/2012. Deadline: 1 November 2010 (June 2010).     Recent News on Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry     Eörs Szathnáry publishes 'Evolution of language as one of the major evolutionary transitions' in: Nolfi & M. Mirolli (eds) Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (May 2010). Eörs Szathmáry and former Fellow István Zachár publish a paper titled 'A New Replicator: A theoretical framework for analysing replication' in BMC Biology (April 2010). Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and Former ColBud Fellow Chrisantha Fernando publish two book chapters. (May 2010).     The Mars Astrobiology (ESA) Group publishes new article in the international journal 'Icarus' on the possibility of salty brine flows on the northern hemisphere of Mars (April 2010).     ESA Homepage Other ESA Publications Summary of Research Activities 2009/2010     Collegium Budapest Year Book 2008/2009     News Archive     Selected Press Reports, Interviews     links to calls for applications in research