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The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University (IAS CEU), previously known as Collegium Budapest, is a research institution in
Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
,
Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
.


History

Established in 1992, it was originally planned for
social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...
, but
biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...
and
physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
were added later. The institute was modeled on the
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...
in Princeton. However, the continuation of the institute's funding was called into question by the Hungarian state. The Collegium Budapest was located in the old town hall of Budapest. The educational institution was dissolved on September 30, 2011. The reason for the dissolution was financing problems. The activities of the Collegium have since been continued on a smaller scale by the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study at
Central European University Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...
(CEU IAS). The CEU IAS is currently based in the Marczibányi Palace in the city center of Pest, October 6 Street. The founding director of the CEU IAS was Eva Fodor. Since September 2015, the CEU IAS has been headed by Nadja al-Baghdadi. At the same time as the founding of the CEU IAS, the Central European University also took over the Raoul Wallenberg Guest House in Buda, which had previously belonged to the Collegium. The guest house was built in 1999 with funds from the Swedish Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swiss Landis & Gyr Foundation. The guest house is named after the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
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{{Authority control Research institutes established in 1992 Central European University