For further information, see the following documents:

2006 Information
2006 Work Programme (pdf)

2006 Interim Report pt1 (pdf)

2006 Interim Report pt2 (pdf)

2005 Information
2005 Work Programme (pdf)

2005 Annual Report (pdf)

2004 Information:
2004 Work Programme (pdf)

2004 Preliminary Calendar of Events (pdf)

EIAS is supported by the European Commission DG External Relations

The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) is a Brussels-based policy and research think-tank supported by the European Union (EU) which aims to promote understanding and cooperation between the EU and Asia.

It does so through working closely together with the European Union institutions in Brussels, as well as with research centers across Asia and within the Europe Union.

EIAS seeks to provide information and expertise to the European Union institutions, the academic world and business by disseminating concise, thoroughly researched and up-to-date material on EU-Asia relations and important developments in Asia.

EIAS activities include undertaking research studies, organising briefings, seminars and conferences, and in-house publishing of research through EIAS Briefing Papers and the EurAsia Bulletin.

EIAS draws on an active network of several hundred regular collaborators across the EU and Asia, at leading Universities, from within Think Tanks as well as from specialised research centres. The EIAS network comprises a rich cross-section of disciplines and sectors, officials and civil society players, policy makers and policy shapers, scholars and diplomats, Asians and Europeans as well as others, e.g. from the US. EIAS publications invite and receive contributions from key-players within this network – contributors to the EurAsia Bulletin during 2005 included, amongst others, two European Commissioners, an EU Member State Minister, several Ambassadors, Members of the European Parliament, policy analysts and policy advocates.

The ‘social capital’ of EIAS consists of the goodwill of numerous persons to contribute to the work of EIAS, their keenness to improve understanding of developments in Asia and their appreciation of the importance of the EU’s relations with Asia.. For specific research projects as well as conferences and round-tables this constitutes a unique intellectual resource. This has been built-up during 19 years and is intimately linked to the standing and reputation of its Senior Staff and Board.

Most pertinently, EIAS participates in Europe-Asia networks of research and analysis, for example as a Member of the European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance). This is a co-operative framework of European institutes specializing in Asian Studies. The aim of the Asia Alliance, established in 1997, is to contribute to bringing together the fragmented forces in Europe on Asian Studies in order to establish scholarly excellence in central areas of research and expertise on Asia, to the benefit of the institutes' national research environments and the European community at large. EIAS hosts an annual conference with the Alliance as well as its Annual meeting.

Present Member Institutes are the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden/Amsterdam; the Institute of Asian Affairs (IFA), Hamburg; the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen; the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), Brussels; Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris; the Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (CEAO, Centre for East Asian Studies), Madrid; the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and the Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies (SSAAPS). Please consult www.asia-alliance.org.

On the request of the European Commission, EIAS has initiated several expertise networks, most notably on China and India, with the aim to promote policy relevant knowledge on EU-India and EU-China. The networks bring together the business and academic research communities with the policy making circles at the EU level.