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{{Short description|Consortium of institutes for advanced study}}
{{about|the consortium|other institutions with the same or similar names|Institute for Advanced Study (disambiguation)}}

The '''Some Institutes for Advanced Study''' ('''SIAS''') [[consortium]] organizes ten  "institutes for advanced study" founded on the same principles as the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]]. The members are:<ref>[http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/International_Links/SIAS.html Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study: SIAS]</ref><ref>[http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/sias/index.htm SIAS Summer Institutes: 2015–2016]</ref>
* [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]], [[United States]]
* [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]] in [[Stanford, California]], U.S.
* [[National Humanities Center]] in [[Durham County, North Carolina|Durham County]], [[North Carolina]], U.S.
* [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S.
* [[Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Amsterdam]], the [[Netherlands]]
* [[Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study]] in [[Uppsala, Sweden]]
* [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Berlin, Germany]]
* [[Israel Institute for Advanced Studies]] in [[Jerusalem]]
* [[Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation]] in [[Nantes, France]]
* [[Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Stellenbosch, South Africa]]

== Overview ==
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. According to Bjorn Wittrock (2003), the Princeton institute model was "like a traditional university…devoted to the promotion of learning, but its scale was smaller and it did not offer formal instruction. Nor did it have large laboratories. It was to be a place for the most highly specialised research, yet provide an atmosphere open to intellectual exchange across all disciplinary boundaries".<ref name=Wittrock>[https://cas.oslo.no/getfile.php/137422/CAS_publications_events/CAS_publications/Jubilee%20booklets/PDF/History_of_institutes.pdf A brief history of institutes for advanced study] by Björn Wittrock, Principal of SCASSS</ref>

The SIAS consortium has stated several conditions any candidate institution should fulfill in order to be accepted as a new member:<ref name=Wittrock/>
# "It should be a true place for advanced study in terms of a commitment to the highest standards of scholarship",
# "It must offer a genuine and competitive fellowship programme - and, one may add, a programme where each individual candidate is subjected to a thorough assessment, not just accepted as part of a thematic group of scholars or selected by the convener of such a group",
# "Its funding should be stable enough to ensure that it will continue to operate into the foreseeable future", and
# "The institution should be part of the academic system but be independent and not be narrowly directed by any single university, or by any commercial enterprise or government department".

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