The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Sofia is an independent non-profit institution set up for the promotion of advanced scholarship and academic cooperation. CAS was established and legally found in the autumn of 2000 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Centre's major function is to provide financial and institutional support for post-doctoral research and for research programmes in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It supports research and academic collaboration in two main areas: history, culture and development of the region; and improvement of higher education and academic research on a regional scale.
 
CAS has been in close collaboration with several major European Advanced Study institutions: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
 
CAS has launched a series of institutional initiatives, such as: the creation of an up-to-date library, the publication of a Newsletter, an on-going initiative at creating a comprehensive and up-dated information data-base about the doctoral students in the fields of the Social Sciences and the Humanities in Bulgaria.
 
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