EASSH members

The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the leading Slovenian research institution. It has a multidisciplinary character; in addition to the humanities, its spheres of research also cover the natural and social sciences.  It consists of 18 research institutes throughout the country and has more than 350 employees, roughly 300 of whom are researchers.

ZRC SAZU conducts basic research across a range of fields, included natural, earth, and spatial sciences (palaeontology, geology, biology, zoology, botany, karst sciences, geomorphology, natural risks, hydrology, climatology, environmental protection, earth observation, and geographical information systems), and the social sciences and humanities (demography, sociomedicine, anthropology, geography, philosophy, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, musicology, ethnology, linguistics, digital humanities, literary studies, archaeology, history, cultural history, art history, and dialectology.

ZRC SAZU has its own publishing house and bookstore. The ZRC Publishing House publishes more than 50 book series ranging from the strictly scientific to works of general interest and nonfiction, and many scientific journals.

Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, 24-year-old Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965.

Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.

Our guaranteed independence means we're:

Free to do more: Supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioral science make an impact.

Free to work together: Building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning.

Free to think long term: Experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.

The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) was established in 2019 to give a public and collective voice to the arts and humanities in the context of Higher Education.

Scotland has a rich arts and humanities heritage and an impressive history of arts and humanities education. We believe that the arts and humanities are a public good with a central role to play in meeting the challenges of contemporary society.

SAHA is uniquely positioned to give voice to the value and diversity of Arts and Humanities education in Scotland and to foster further collaboration across and beyond institutions in order to provide a coherent perspective on the challenges facing Scottish society.

SAHA works in the context of SHAPE, STEAM and internationally with partners in the Irish, European and North American Humanities alliances. The Alliance aims to enhance public and governmental understanding of the intellectual, creative and social, as well as economic, contribution of the arts and humanities to the well-being and advancement of Scottish society.

The Alliance has the following remit:

• To be a united, public voice on matters relating to the arts and humanities in Scotland.
• To advocate for the arts and humanities, enhancing understanding of their intellectual, creative, and social as well as economic, contribution to the wellbeing and advancement of Scottish society.
• To influence government policy on current higher educational issues relating to the arts and humanities, giving a Scottish perspective, but also speaking to wider debates.
• To create, foster and enhance links and partnerships between scholars and local communities and communities of practice.
• To disseminate its work in the media, in government and within the education sector.

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS) is the umbrella organization of 61 learned societies. Whether in literature or theology, in communication sciences or in political sciences, its member societies represent a whole variety of disciplines. In total, no fewer than 30,000 people are members of a learned society associated with the SAHS, making it the largest network in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland.

Research promotion, international cooperation and the promotion of young academics – these have been the main concerns of the SAHS since its foundation in 1946. As an institution of research funding recognised by the Federal Confederation, the Academy is currently involved in four central thematic areas: 

Networking

The SAHS serves as a platform for the realisation of joint projects and for the dissemination of research results within the scientific community. Its role as a "mediator" between the disciplines is also of great importance.

Promotion of the humanities and social sciences

The SAHS allocates a large part of its budget to the promotion of activities in the humanities and social sciences in our country. As far as possible, it pursues a funding policy that focuses on the promotion of young academics in research.

Outreach

The SAHS regularly organizes public conferences and panel discussions on current topics. It thus emphasizes the contribution of its disciplines to the analysis of important social challenges and promotes dialogue with politics and business.

Infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences

The SAHS is responsible for various long-term projects. These provide an important research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences and make a substantial contribution to the preservation, communication and development of Switzerland's collective memory.

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

The SAHS is a member of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences network the sciences regionally, nationally and internationally. They are particularly active in the fields of foresight, ethics and advocate dialogue between science and society.

Taylor & Francis is a business that is centred on creating, serving and sustaining diverse expert communities of researchers and other knowledge makers to maximise the contribution and impact of their work.

As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks and reference works, our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine, and our brands include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, CRC Press, F1000 and Dovepress.

Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) is one of the leading universities of applied sciences in Finland. It is an innovative and multidisciplinary higher education institution of 11,000 students located in South-west Finland with close access to the unique archipelago environment of the Baltic Sea.

Our strategy is focused on the area of the Baltic Sea and the potential of the human capital. We engage citizens to find solutions for a green economy and a good life at home in the hybrid world.

At Turku University of Applied Sciences, the international perspective is integrated into all the activities, teaching, RDI as well as working life cooperation. This guarantees that our students and staff have the intercultural skills needed in today’s multicultural working life. It also ensures the high international quality of our education and applied research.

Our spearhead focus is on:

• Arts for a good life
• Functional regional Health and Well-being services
• Lively Business area and advanced Engineering solutions.

Find out more about the three faculties on our website.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is a public institution for higher education, whose aim is the transfer of knowledge to society through research, as well as teaching and learning. It is defined by its commitment to innovation and social involvement, in collaboration with other universities and institutions.

UAM aims to consolidate its international recognition as a sustainable and comprehensive public university, both a leader in Latin America and outstanding in Europe, thanks to the quality of its research, its training excellence and innovation.

The University for Foreigners of Siena is a university institute of higher education, research and high-level training with a special status, whose prestige in the research and educational fields is recognised at an international level. The University promotes culture, teaching and research in the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

The mission of the University for Foreigners of Siena is to study and promote the interaction of the Italian language and culture with other languages and cultures in order to foster processes of encounter, dialogue and mediation between people from different cultures, promoting the civilised and peaceful coexistence that stems from mutual recognition and mutual respect.

The university's research and education programme is focused on Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The Statute’s special mission is to study and examine phenomena of cultural and linguistic contact, mediation and inclusion: from philological-literary and historical-artistic sciences to historical, philosophical and pedagogical sciences; from legal sciences to political and social sciences.

With more than 3,900 teaching and research faculty and approximately 62,000 students, including nearly 10,000 foreign students, the Université de Lorraine (UL) is one of France’s largest multidisciplinary universities.

Its location at the heart of Europe, bordering three European member states (Germany, Belgium and
Luxembourg) offers UL a privileged position for strong international partnerships. UL is committed to numerous European and international collaborations and exchanges, including multi-partnership projects and initiatives that, in many cases, go beyond European borders. UL is constantly engaged in European projects covering a large part of the Horizon Europe programme.

The scientific activity of the Université de Lorraine is organised in 60 research laboratories located in 10 scientific centers covering a wide range of disciplinary fields and topics: agriculture, food science, forestry, environment, energy, biology, medicine, health, chemistry, physics, process engineering, product engineering, materials science and engineering, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, computer
science, automation, electronics, mathematics, communication, social sciences, literature, languages​​, law, political science, economics, management, arts, architecture.

More specifically, the Universié de Lorraine currently hosts 10 laboratories in the human and social sciences, with a total of 340 researchers and professors.

From 1850, QCC was part of the Queen's University of Ireland and, from the 1880s, of the Royal University of Ireland. QCC grew during that that time, adding land and buildings, increasing student numbers and developing deep links throughout Munster and into the world beyond. By the beginning the twentieth century however, it was clear that higher education in Ireland required a new arrangement to permit the next stages of development. That change came in 1908 through the National University of Ireland (NUI), of which the former QCC, now University College Cork (UCC) is a founding member.  Since 1908, UCC has grown - from 115 students to over 20,000, from one building to dozens, from less than 20 staff to more than 1,600 today. Since 1997, we have become a university in our own right within the NUI, but we retain the UCC name as part of our heritage of learning since 1845.

We’re an award-winning institution with a history of independent thinking stretching back over 170 years. UCC is proud to be ranked in the top 2% of universities in the world. Our beautiful university opened its gates to just 115 students in 1849. We now have a student population of over 21,000.

The University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) was established in 1993 and is the overarching national organisation which represents the interests of modern languages, linguistics and cultural and area studies in higher education throughout the United Kingdom, and works with corresponding bodies in other countries.

In addition to promoting education and research in languages, linguistics and area studies, our work also includes lobbying policy makers and actively encouraging increased take-up of modern language study through the Routes into Languages network. Our members include UK higher education institutions involved in language teaching and research, and subject associations in the relevant disciplines.

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is ambitious, creative and committed: a leader in international science and a partner in innovation, the UvA has been inspiring generations since 1632.
Innovative and independent

The UvA is an innovative, committed and independent university that is working towards a sustainable and prosperous future. Interdisciplinary research, cooperation and innovation are the key to scientific innovation.

Since its foundation in 1632, the UvA has grown into one of the leading universities across the full spectrum of the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and medical sciences. Its 6,000 staff, 3,000 PhD candidates and 40,000 students work and study together at various locations in Amsterdam.

The University of Bergen (UiB) is an internationally recognised research university. Academic diversity and high quality are fundamental for us. UiB is the most cited university in Norway.

There are seven faculties at UiB and there are a total of 16 900 students at the university. Around 1 880 of these are international students. We employ 3 600 staff. PhD candidates are paid employees of staff, making the doctoral degree at UiB particularly attractive for rising talent. About one in three graduating doctors are from outside Norway.

Building a responsible and sustainable future, the University of Eastern Finland seeks to solve global challenges through multidisciplinary research and through education that meets working life needs.

The university’s strategy, entitled Interdisciplinary Solutions, defines four profile areas in research: Ageing, lifestyles and health; Learning in a digitised society; Cultural encounters, mobilities and borders; and Environmental change and sufficiency of natural resources”.