Centre for Advanced Study - CAS

06/10/2026

22/09/2026

Join us at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Thursday!

21/09/2026

We’re excited to announce this year’s Young Researchers’ Night! 🎉

Together with SiN - Stipendiatorganisasjonene i Norge, the Centre for Advanced Study - CAS and our local partners, we’re hosting five events across Norway as a part of Forskningsdagene:

📍 Bergen | 24. September
Havforskningsinstituttet , in collaboration with UiBdoc

📍 Oslo | 24. September
Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi

📍 Stavanger | 24 September
Litteraturhuset i Stavanger, in collaboration with Uisdc

📍 Kristiansand | 26 September
Thon Hotel Partner, in collaboration with UiAdoc and UiA - Universitetet i Agder

📍 Bodø | 2 October
Spir, Nord University, in collaboration with Nord universitet, Arctic Research Group and ArcSolution

Come meet fellow young researchers, enjoy engaging talks and discover new perspectives!

Several events will also showcase Konkurransen Unge Forskere—a great opportunity for upper secondary school students to learn more about the competition and explore their interest in research.

Thanks to Bergesenstiftelsen, Centre for Advanced Study - CAS and Norges forskningsråd for sponsoring the events

Find an event near you and join us!
🔗 More information: https://akademietforyngreforskere.no/yrn2026/

28/05/2026

We are pleased to announce the three research groups joining CAS in 2027/2028. 🎓

From terraformation to hidden symmetries, this cohort reflect the breadth and ambition that mark research at CAS.

📌 'The Politics of Tone' – Professor Kim Wilkins & Professor Timotheus Vermeulen (UiO)

📌 'Shifting Grounds: The Anthropology of Terraformation' – Professor Marianne Lien (UiO)

📌 'Geometric Analysis of Nonholonomic Systems' – Professor Boris Serafimovich Kruglikov (UiT) & Professor Irina Markina (UiB)

Each project brings together leading scholars for a full academic year of focused, collaborative research.

Read more about each project here:

Each year, CAS hosts three interdisciplinary research groups spanning the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. These groups bring together leading academics from around the world, led by scholars from CAS' partner institutions in Norway. The Principal Investigators and their selected t...

10/04/2026

I dag går finalen i Konkurransen Unge Forskere av stabelen! 🔬✨

Vi gleder oss til å høre finalistene fortelle om forskningen sin, som spenner alt fra anvendt matematikk, fluidmekanikk, nevrovitenskap og kjemi til spørsmål om ondskap, nasjonalisme og Odd Nordstoga.

Direktør ved CAS, Camilla Serck-Hanssen, deler i tillegg ut vår egen Grunnforskningspris.

Dette blir både inspirerende og lærerikt!

04/03/2026

📣 Exciting news 📣

CAS and seven Institutes for Advanced Study in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will launch a new trans-Nordic fellowship programme on health and sustainability. This initiative is a structured, interdisciplinary training and retention programme for early-career researchers

The programme, which the Novo Nordisk Foundation has supported with DKK 48.3 million over the next six years, will offer 20 two-year fellowships focused on innovative solutions to challenges within health and sustainability.

The programme brings together eight Nordic partner institutions:
Four main partners:
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) - Aarhus University, Denmark
- Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Norway
- Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Sweden

Four associated partners:
- Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), Denmark
- Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies - Lund University, Sweden
- Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Finland
- Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland

We very much look forward to launching this ambitious new programme in close collaboration with our Nordic partners.

🔗 Read more about the programme here: https://cas-nor.no/news/new-trans-nordic-fellowship-programme-health-and-sustainability-cement-nordic-region-leading

03/03/2026

Call for applications for the Young CAS Grant 2027-2028 📣

The Young CAS Grant offers you the opportunity to assemble your ideal international team, lead your own research project, and advance both your research field and career.

As a Young CAs PI you'll receive funding, office space, and administrative support to pursue excellent basic, curiosity-driven research in any field.

🗓️ Application deadline 13 May 2026

Apply through the UNIFOR application portalApplication deadline 13 May 2026

26/02/2026

We are pleased to announce that Paul Acker (NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) and Nils Hallvard Korsvoll (UiA - Universitetet i Agder) have been selected as the new Young CAS Principal Investigators for the 2026-2028 period!

🔬 Paul Acker's project — Towards a Theory of Evolutionary Potential under Extreme Events (TEPEE) — aims to develop a framework and theory to determine whether, and under what conditions, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and storms reshape evolutionary potential.

📖 Nils Hallvard Korsvoll's project — The Modern Life of Manuscripts: Modelling a New Best Practice in Philology (MLM) — seek to establish a next methodological step and a new best practice by introducing the modern location(s) and movement(s) of manuscripts in philology and historical study.

We extend our warmest congratulations to Paul and Nils, and look forward to welcoming them to CAS!

Read the full announcement here:

This cohort's themes span from the study of how biodiversity responds to environmental change to how ancient manuscripts figure in modern systems of knowledge production. You can read more about the projects below.We received several exceptionally strong applications this round and are pleased to se...

18/02/2026

Svenn-Erik Mamelund, who led the CAS project 'Social Science Meets Biology' in 2022/2023, shares his reflections in Forskerforum on how diversity alone doesn’t automatically advance the research frontier. He highlights CAS as an example of a research environment that sought to combine expertise with diverse perspectives.

His insights open up an important discussion: How can research teams best balance diversity and academic excellence to thrive?

I nysgjerrighetsdrevet forskning gir ikke nødvendigvis mangfold i forskergruppen økt kvalitet, selv om mangfold kan være politisk ønsket, skriver Svenn-Erik Mamelund. (Lenke i kommentarfeltet)

02/02/2026

Rosie Bishop has returned to CAS on a short-term fellowship to continue her research on climate, crops, and crisis, examining how prehistoric communities managed agricultural risk. 🌾

How did prehistoric farmers cope when the climate changed? Rosie Bishop’s project Climate, Crops, and Crisis? set out to answer that question, exploring how ancient communities adapted their farming strategies - and how these adaptations can still be recognised today. She has now returned to the C...