Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS)

Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) is an independent think tank focusing on Europe-Asia relations and developments in the Indo-Pacific region. Originally founded in 2007 in Slovakia, CEIAS is today a transnational think tank with main branches in ‎Bratislava (Slovakia), Prague (Czech Republic), and Vienna (Austria), and further regional presence in Poland, Hungary, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond.

As a sole transnational think tank focused on Asia in Central Europe, CEIAS’s main goal is to spread knowledge about contemporary Asia among experts and the public in Central Europe and beyond, while also informing international audiences about Central European, as well as the EU’s relations with Asia.

To this end, CEIAS conducts and publishes its own research, organizes seminars and conferences, supports education on Asia and Indo-Pacific-related topics, and provides expert commentary for the local, regional, and international media. CEIAS strives to combine its academic and policy advisory role, producing data-driven, methodologically rigorous, reliable, and practically relevant research that is highly valued by experts and policymakers alike.  

CEIAS activities, organized into several workstreams, focus mainly on international relations, politics, security studies, economics, and societies in East, Southeast, South, and Central Asia.