The Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) is an organizational unit of the University of Rijeka specializing in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. The vision of the Center is to promote freedom of research and ensure the necessary prerequisites for innovative, intellectual, and scientific development. It strives to strengthen transnational and regional scientific cooperation on various socially pressing issues relevant to the Humanistic, Social Sciences, and Arts.
In short, CAS aims at the following:
1. Establishing opportunities for scholars worldwide to gather, discuss and produce high-end and streamlined research on southeast Europe and broader,
2. Contributing to a fuller acknowledgment of such scientific products by international academia and scholarly journals,
3. Rebuilding and promoting professional collaboration and exchange between internationally renowned research centers and the region’s scientific community,
4. Improving the quality of regional research by helping local young scholars to (re)connect to global scholarly trends by providing them with support and infrastructure to conduct research projects (“brain gain” strategy).
