Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) is an institute for advanced study in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the ca ...

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. It is one of the ten member institutions of the

Some Institutes for Advanced Study 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. The members are: * Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, ...

consortium, which brings together the world's most distinguished institutes for advanced study. SCAS is also a member of the European network of institutes for advanced study NetIAS. The Collegium was founded in 1985, chartered by the Swedish government and offers one-semester and one-year fellowships to visiting scholars, ranging from postdoctoral to professorial positions. Since January 2007, it is located in the Linneanum in the

Uppsala University Botanical Garden The University of Uppsala Botanical Garden (in Swedish ''Botaniska trädgården''), near Uppsala Castle, is the principal botanical garden belonging to Uppsala University. It was created on land donated to the university in 1787 by Sweden's Kin ...

. It was earlier located in a villa in the Kåbo district of Uppsala.

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Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
official website
NetIAS
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