Some Institutes for Advanced Study

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The Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) consortium organizes nine "institutes for advanced study" founded on the same principles as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which is also one of the members.

There are other, older institutions such as All Souls College, Oxford in the United Kingdom and the Collège de France in Paris, France which may be said to be part of the inspiration for the Princeton Institute, but these do not belong to the SIAS consortium. SIAS members were founded explicitly to follow the Princeton model (with certain variations - not all maintain a permanent faculty, for instance), and place an emphasis on granting one-year fellowships.

In the United States, the next oldest member of the SIAS consortium is the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences, near Stanford University. Like the Princeton-based Institute, the Center is often assumed to be part of its nearby university but is actually an independent private institution. The Center is funded by the Ford Foundation, and was founded after World War II.

The other American member institutions have been founded since 1970. They are the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle in North Carolina; the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard; and the Social Science Research Council and Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.

The European SIAS members (which also have been founded since 1970) are the Collegium Budapest [1] in Budapest, Hungary; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study [2] in Wassenaar, the Netherlands; the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany.