About CAS
The Centre hosts three parallel research groups each year in the following fields: Theoretical Natural sciences, Social sciences/Law, and the Humanities. Each group consists of recognised researchers from Norway and abroad who have been invited to spend up to a year studying at the Centre. Altogether, some 40 to 45 researchers of different nationalities and from every corner of the world spend time at the Centre each year.
Group leaders are selected by the Board of the Centre in response to proposals. The Centre's activities are generally based on the guests' own projects, but also include lectures and seminars that are open to broader participation by Norwegian and foreign scholars.
The Centre is mainly funded by the Norwegian government, but also (indirectly) through the agreements between the Centre and participating Norwegian institutions which ensure that Norwegian scholars qualify for an extra sabbatical while doing research at the Centre. The Centre's participating institutions are: The University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, the University of Tromsø, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in Bergen, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås, the University of Stavanger, MF Norwegian School of Theology, BI Norwegian Business School, and the University of Agder. |
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The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a basic research institution devoted to ensuring that outstanding, innovative researchers get the resources they need to make further scientific advances. In other words, CAS is intended to serve as a catalyst to enhance the quality of the Norwegian research system, to raise the standards of Norwegian basic and interdisciplinary research to the highest international level. 
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