Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe

Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE) is an organisational unit of the University of Rijeka, specialising in the social sciences and humanities.

Designed as a regional hub for high-level academic research, the Center aims to stimulate public discourses on topics with high societal relevance for the region and Europe. The vision of the Center is to promote freedom of research and to ensure the necessary prerequisites for innovative, intellectual and scientific development. The Center strives to strengthen the transnational and regional scientific cooperation on a range of socially pressing issues with relevance for the humanistic and social sciences.

The main activities of the Center are:

Scientific research in the field of social sciences and humanities
Supporting the research projects of young and senior researchers
Establishing new and strengthening existing regional and international networks and collaboration
Promoting professional cooperation and exchange
Organising and participating in programmes and events to develop, improve and promote research in the social sciences and humanities
Gathering young scientists in the field of Southeastern Europe with the aim of improving the quality of research in the social sciences and humanities in the region
Interdisciplinary collaborations
Coordinating and implementing visits and stays of local and foreign scholars, students and staff in interdisciplinary fields and the field of social sciences and humanities