"We embarked on a major experiment"

Claudia Rapp, Director of Research at the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformation, explains the cluster's structure, scope and aims at the brand-new ÖAW campaign, "Keine Forschung, keine Antwort".

Develop your journalistic skills in science communication at EurAsia!

(Social) Media & Content Creation (m/f/d) 5 hours/week, starting 1 November 2025

Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters

Opening lecture of the EurAsia Lecture Series WS2025/26 „Europas unbekannteste Großmacht: Litauen zwischen historischer Reichsbildung und moderner Staatlichkeit", by Rimvydas Petrauskas, Rector of the University of Vilnius.

Lecture Series: Lithuania WS25-26

Der europäische Koran und die Leerstelle Balkan by Konrad Petrovszky

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Eine kritische Nachbetrachtung der kürzlich in Wien gezeigten Ausstellung "Der europäische Koran" In seinem Gastblog setzt sich der Historiker Konrad Petrovszky vom Institut für die Erforschung der…

Robyn Dora Radway wins the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize

Radway's book, "Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople" was chosen for its originality, analytical depth, and production quality

OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities

This workshop will bring together early-career and more senior scholars, as well as technical specialists, who have worked with or developed OCR (Optical Character Recognition) /HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) tools for under-represented languages…

Wahlen in Moldau: Ja zu Europa, Nein zu Russland

Russland hat mit Cyberattacken, Geldbestechung und politischer Fehlinformation versucht, Einfluss auf das Wahlergebnis in der Republik Moldau zu nehmen. Trotzdem haben die proeuropäischen Kräfte gesiegt. Warum das möglich war, und was der Rest von…

Source Language Courses

The Historical Studies Department at CEU offers two-credit elective courses specifically designed for academic purposes, free of charge for CEU students and the students/faculty from the institutions participating in the Cluster (University of…

Tibetischer Buddhismus erobert die Welt by Zhouyang Ma

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Im 12. Jahrhundert verließen die ersten tibetischen Mönche ihre Heimat und wirkten als Missionare Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Zhouyang Ma, Postdoktorand am Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der…

The four partner institutions collaborate in offering training to students and early career scholars in Austria and internationally. For this purpose, the Austrian Consortium for the Study of EurAsia (ACE) was initiated.

Through courses, summer schools, workshops, and training sessions, both in person and online, we aim to equip new generations with the following skills: 

  • Competence in reading original language sources as a basis for cultural literacy
  • Global methodology and outlook
  • Competence in the use of digital methods
  • A set of transferable skills