Background and Purpose

The primary mission of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study  is to strengthen ongoing research collaborations and foster the development of new research collaborations between the University of California, Berkeley and the consortium of eight participating Norwegian academic institutions. The Center’s funding enables UC Berkeley faculty to conduct exploratory and cutting-edge research in tandem with leading researchers from the following eight Norwegian higher education institutions in collaboration with the National Research Council:

• BI Norwegian Business School (BI)
• Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• University of Agder (UiA)
• University of Bergen (UiB)
• University of Oslo (UiO)
• University of Stavanger (UiS)
• University of Tromsø (UiT)

The Center will select projects for support and also serve as an administrative hub for these partnerships. In this capacity, the Center will use its financial resources to support activities such as workshops, mini-conferences, virtual intellectual exchanges, PhD student exchanges, postdoctoral fellow exchanges, as well as the undertaking of exploratory and pilot studies.