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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 16 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.

News Marie Curie Fellow Chrisantha Fernando has been invited to the 60th Anniversary of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Germany. (March 2010)     Dr. Fernando has been a Fellow at Collegium Budapest for two years since March 2008. He is a theoretical biologist with a main research focus targeted at the possibility of natural selection in the brain. Updated Summary of Research Activities 2009/2010. (March 2010)     Call for Proposals for CEU Summer University 2011 in Budapest (March 2010)     Leontief Medal to Socialism's Gravedigger - János Kornai's Russian Scholarly Award (February 2010)     Hungarian Academy of Sciences reports on event in Hungarian Collegium Budapest Announcement on the Award to Professor Kornai Interview in English Social impacts of extraterrestrial forms of existence, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (mta.hu) Interview with Former Fellow Iván Almár (February 2010)     Interview in English Hungarian-langauge interview with Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry. Published on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences homepage. (February 2010)     Interview in English Collegium Budapest Year Book 2008/2009 comes out. (January 2010)     Abstract of a PNAS paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry, and former ColBud Fellows Vera Vasas and Mauro Santos. See entire paper below. (January 2010)     Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks: A constraint on the metabolism-first path to the origin of life 'FACULTY OF 1000 BIOLOGY' Feedback CEU Summer University 2010 (November 2009).     News Archive     Selected Press Reports, Interviews     links to calls for applications in research