Institutes for Advanced StudyInstitutions that enable interdisciplinary interaction and greater openness to new ideas among academics are becoming increasingly important. Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) play a pivotal role in this regard. As a rule, the Swiss-sponsored Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin offers three Swiss university faculty members at postdoctoral level the opportunity to do a ten-month fellowship with around 40 fellows from all over the world. Research excellence is the main criteria for selection. Within this context, the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) seeks to establish and deepen contacts with countries (e.g. in the Black Sea region) whose very promising scientific potential has yet to be fully realised. Here the already existing cooperation between Institutes for Advanced Study in Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine will serve as a basis. Under the aegis of the University of Saint Gallen's Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, a service level agreement will be signed to provide the funding needed for Swiss academics specialised in the field of Eastern European studies to establish and deepen international networking ties in a targeted fashion. Here again, research excellence will be the main criteria.
 Service agreement between the Swiss Confederation represented by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) and the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) University of St. Gallen
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