Some Institutes for Advanced Study
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. The members are:
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California
National Humanities Center in North Carolina
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, 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, Israel
Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation in Nantes, France
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".