EASSH members

The Faculty of Arts was established in 2011 when the former Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology and the Danish School of Education were merged. Arts is now the largest faculty for research and teaching on cultural and social practices in Northern Europe.

Arts is home to a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinarities. On this basis, we seek to address the most urgent challenges facing society today. A commitment to interact with society and seek solutions to pressing social questions is balanced with an emphasis on contributing to basic research.

The Faculty of Arts employs around 750 full-time members of academic staff and has around 15,000 students. Arts has around 300 enrolled PhD students.

The Academia Europaea is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members. Membership is by invitation. 

Invitations are made only after peer group nomination, scrutiny and confirmation as to the scholarship and eminence of the individual in their chosen field. Election is confirmed by the Council of the Academia. 

Members are drawn from across the whole European continent, not only western Europe. Members also include European scholars who are resident in other regions of the world. Current membership stands at around 4,000. Amongst them are seventy-two Nobel Laureates, several of whom were elected to the Academia before they received the prize. 

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna is the oldest university in the Western world. Based in five campuses (Bologna, Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna, Rimini), with a branch in Buenos Aires. The university is in the top 200 most prestigious international University rankings and considered the leading university in Europe for student mobility (Erasmus+).

As a comprehensive research university Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna invests in the multidisciplinary cross-cultural approach and in the inseparable connection between research and teaching. The University of Bologna is an active member of the most relevant networks in the fields of Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries at European, national and regional level.

The university is also member of other major thematic networks in the field of SSH: European School of Innovation “ESSI”, "Forum Euroméditerranéen des Instituts de Sciences Economiques" (FEMISE) and the European Regions for Competitive and Sustainable Tourism (NECSTOUR). It is also member of the Guild of European Research-intensive Universities, the European University Association, the Una Europa alliance and EARMA.

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna ranks first among Italian HEIs and 3rd among European HEIs for competitive research funded in Horizon 2020, Societal Challenge 6; Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies. As a comprehensive university, it has made the most of all its disciplinary fields by mobilizing researchers across disciplinary areas.

The University of Antwerp is a young and dynamic university, which through its free and innovative research, student-centred academic teaching and targeted service to society, aims to make a valuable impact on the development, dissemination and use of scientific knowledge.

By doing so, UAntwerp continues to strengthen its commitment to the further development of a sustainable world and a democratic and inclusive society founded on human rights. ‘Let’s shape the future' is therefore the university's – logical – slogan.

Students not only become experts in their fields, but also critical and independent global citizens who are empowered to find their own way. For the university, they are co-creating partners.

Researchers are given time and space to engage in creative and groundbreaking research which aims for international scientific and societal impact. The university focusses on its strengths, with continued attention to global research and embeddedness within teaching.

The University of Antwerp promotes public debate and visibly embodies its values through unifying science communication and targeted networking, both regionally and internationally. Via YUFE, the university is helping to build the foundations of a European university.

The development of knowledge and expertise comes about in partnership with government entities, private partners and citizens, with a focus on applications, either with or without a profit motive. In doing so, the university actively seeks opportunities for valorising knowledge in a sustainable and socially valuable way.

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences consists of 10 Academic Schools with 1,100 staff and 13,000 students.

From Business to Law, Music to Journalism, we have an internationally recognised intellectual capacity considering the key theoretical and practical questions in the study of the economy, politics and society.

We offer a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduateprogrammes and students benefit from direct access to world-leading academics. Our professional courses help equip employees with the latest skills, and bespoke training can be tailored to meet the specific needs of organisations.

Our graduates have gone on to secure prominent positions with leading organisations around the world. Our alumni include Spencer Dale, Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Danny Blanchflower, academic and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England, journalists Huw Edwards, Bill Turnbull and Alex Thomson, founder of moneysaving expert Martin Lewis, and composer Karl Jenkins.

Established in 1348, Charles University holds the distinction of being among the world's most ancient institutions of higher education. Despite its age, it stands out as a contemporary, vibrant, and esteemed academic institution.

As the Czech Republic's largest and most prestigious university, it also consistently tops local institutions in international academic rankings. The university comprises 17 faculties, alongside 3 institutes and 6 additional centres dedicated to teaching, research and development.

Maintaining and enhancing its respected reputation as a research-focused institution remains at the forefront of Charles University's mission. It channels substantial effort towards cultivating international collaborations and research pursuits.

The university is proud of its many exemplary research teams that actively engage with global research establishments. It maintains robust partnerships with a diverse array of world-class universities and is a key player in the 4EU+ university alliance. With an objective to foster an international milieu within its campuses, the university extends numerous opportunities to researchers worldwide.

Social sciences and humanities provide critical understanding of the complex, interconnected social and cultural aspects of our world, enabling us to address global challenges more effectively. By studying social sciences and humanities, students gain a deeper comprehension of human behaviour, societies, and cultures, promoting empathy, critical thinking, and effective communication skills. At Charles University, these fields are strongly represented and are key to shaping insightful, responsible, and adaptable graduates ready to contribute positively to the global community.

Charles University employs over 8,600 personnel, with close to 5,000 engaged in academia and research. More than 50,000 students — approximately one-sixth of all students in the Czech Republic — are enrolled in the institution's more than 300 accredited degree programmes, which encompass over 870 unique courses.

The Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA) is a non-profit cultural institution founded in 1880 in the heart of Madrid. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Spain, a multidisciplinary centre with activities ranging from the visual arts to literature, science, philosophy, cinema and the performing arts. 

The CBA develops an important work of international scope in the field of creation and culture. It has been labelled as "Casa Europa" for its recognized role as a forum for reflection and debate by and for European civil society.  The CBA is not only sponsoring an intense debate on key issues of European construction, but is succeeding in taking these issues beyond the academic or political sphere and into civil society. In cooperation with a wide range of prestigious Spanish and foreign Universities, our institution leads many lines of research and reflection on the cultural, political and historical links that could shape a common European identity.

The CBA is also working to become a great pole of attraction for innovation, knowledge transfer projects and creative practice in the fields of Arts and Humanities. For an institution with a long tradition of commitment to culture, arts and education, it is crucial to develop strong bonds with higher education institutions through solid bidirectional relationships that enrich the artistic and cultural panorama.

CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, which aims to provide easy and sustainable access for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digital language data (in written, spoken, video or multimodal form), and advanced tools to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine them, wherever they are located.

CLARIN is shaped as a networked federation of language data repositories, service centres and centres of expertise, with single sign-on access for all members of the academic community in all participating countries. Interoperability of tools and data from different data and service centres allows for data collections to be combined and for tools from different sources to be chained to perform complex operations to support researchers in their work.

Collegio Carlo Alberto (CCA) is a foundation created in 2004 as a joint initiative of the Compagnia di San Paolo Bank Foundation and the University of Torino.

CCA’s mission is to foster academic research and education in the social sciences, through a threefold action plan:
(i) the production of first-rate research in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences and Law;
(ii) the provision of top-level undergraduate and graduate education in the above disciplines; and
(iii) the contribution to the public policy debate through a wide programme of outreach activities.

CCA Faculty Fellows contribute to a dynamic research environment involving the residential faculty of the University of Torino, the faculty hired on the international academic job market, senior research fellows and visiting scholars.

Together they build the CCA scientific community consisting of a total of more than 60 researchers.

Since its founding in 1956, the Croatian Society of Art Historians has brought art historians together to promote the importance of our profession through a variety of events and publishing projects. Over the past eight years, they have undertaken a project entitled Croatian Art Historians, which they believe will have an important impact on domestic and international dialogue.

This international conference encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum that will stimulate respectful dialogue by bringing together European and international university scholars to share ideas and research on the dualistic centre-periphery paradigm in terms of art history based on work by Ljubo Karaman. Ljubo Karaman (1886–1971) was a Croatian art historian.

Karaman’s theoretical and practical work strongly marked the formative period of art history and conservation in Croatia between the two world wars and in the immediate postwar period. His most important contribution to the general history of art lies in his theoretical considerations of the notion of the periphery, the true historical basis of which is the artistic heritage of the Croatian regions.

The Cultural Studies of Science and Technology Group (CSTS) is part of the Transdisciplinarity Lab, at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich (Switzerland). We are an interdisciplinary group investigating, designing and implementing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research processes with a transformative potential for societal impact.

The group is part of a dynamic community working in the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and combines a diverse range of methods and theories from anthropology, sociology, political science, cognitive science, and philosophy of science, together with inter- and transdisciplinary methods and tools. We take a cultural approach to investigate collaborative research practices and their context.

We aim to understand the underlying systems of meaning that are created by and guide research practices, science policies and funding schemes. The study of collaborative practices provides important opportunities to redefine and to reinvent methods and conceptual frameworks in evaluating research. It can thus inform policy and funding. We consider the perspectives of a variety of actors that are affected by and in turn affect research practices and policies, by studying the complex relationships between research and society, and between different cultures of research.

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries.   

It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital arts and humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.

DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 19 Members and several cooperating partners in eight non-member countries.

The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) is an international organisation representing China scholars from all over Europe. Currently it has more than 700 members. It was founded in 1975 and is registered in Paris. It is a non-profit organisation not engaging in any political activity. 

The purpose of the Association is to promote and foster, by every possible means, scholarly activities related to Chinese Studies in Europe. The EACS serves not only as the scholarly representative of Chinese Studies in Europe but also as contact organisation for academic matters in this field. 

One of the Association’s major activities are the bi-annual conferences hosted by various centres of Chinese Studies in different European countries. The papers presented at these conferences comprise all fields from traditional Sinology to studies of modern China. In addition, summer schools and workshops are organised under the auspices of the EACS. The Association carries out scholarly projects on an irregular basis.

The EADH brings together and represents the Digital Humanities in Europe across the entire spectrum of disciplines that research, develop, and apply digital humanities methods and technology. The EADH also supports the formation of DH interest groups in Europe that are defined by region, language, methodological focus or other criteria.

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) was founded in 1973 under the name Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) with the original purpose of supporting the application of computing in the study of language and literature.

As the range of available and relevant computing techniques in the humanities increased, the interests of the association's members have broadened substantially and encompass not only text analysis and language corpora, but also history, art history, music, manuscript studies, image processing and electronic editions. The association's new name, which was adopted in 2012, reflects this significant widening of scope. Today the EADH's mission is to represent European Digital Humanities across all disciplines.

EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, is the leading European network in the field of Development Studies: With more than 100 institutional members in more than 25 countries it.organises activities and provides platforms for international networking and exchange with a strong interdisciplinary focus. EADI’s flagship events are the General Conferences every three years which bring together the wider Development Research community around a specific topic. The official languages of EADI are English and French.

EADI’s Mission
EADI is the prime professional association for development studies. As such it promotes:

• Quality in research and education in development studies,
• The exchange of relevant information among members and with others,
• The strengthening of relevant knowledge networks at the regional and global level,
• Influencing both national and European decision-makers in the development cooperation field.

EADI’s Objectives

• To generate and stimulate and exchange of information among European academics and researchers concerned with development issues
• To promote interdisciplinary studies on specific themes
• To develop contacts with researchers from other regions of the world