The Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) consortium organizes ten “institutes for advanced study”. The members are:
- Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California
- National Humanities Center in North Carolina
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden
- Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Germany
- Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, Israel
- Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation in Nantes, France
- Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa
SIAS members were founded explicitly to follow the Princeton model (with certain variations – not all maintain a permanent faculty, for instance), and place an emphasis on granting one-year fellowships. The SIAS consortium has stated several conditions any candidate institution should fulfill in order to be accepted as a new member:
- “It should be a true place for advanced study in terms of a commitment to the highest standards of scholarship”,
- “It must offer a genuine and competitive fellowship programme – and, one may add, a programme where each individual candidate is subjected to a thorough assessment, not just accepted as part of a thematic group of scholars or selected by the convener of such a group”,
- “Its funding should be stable enough to ensure that it will continue to operate into the foreseeable future”, and
- “The institution should be part of the academic system but be independent and not be narrowly directed by any single university, or by any commercial enterprise or government department”.
