Centre for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS), focuses on research activities that cover current political and social developments in non-European regions. The centre supports independent research primarily aimed at understanding the context of current political and social crises in countries outside Europe.
“The newly established centre will enable better coordination of research activities among the individual disciplines at CU FA and will significantly enhance the synergy of both social scientific and humanities approaches to the study of non-European regions,”
says the coordinator of the project, doc. Karel Kouba of the Centre for Ibero-American Studies at CU FA.
CenMAS will also transform the existing Institute for the Study of the Strategic Regions (ISSR). Dr Radek Buben, chairman of the ISSR board, who participated in the preparation of the project, adds:
“CenMAS is the future of the existing ISSR – it will enable its further development and, thus, strengthen the role of CU FA in Central and Eastern Europe in the field of international research on key global regions.”
