All IIAS initiatives are in their nature collaborative. They draw from the institute’s exceptional range of academic and professional networks.

Leiden/Amsterdam and the Netherlands

Leiden Consortium for Asian Studies
The Leiden Consortium, initiated by IIAS, is an intra-university network to further the scientific cooperation in the field of Asian studies. It consists of:

• IIAS (initiator)
• Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
• Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS, Faculty of Humanities)
• Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development (Faculty of Law)
• Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)

Other Intra-university partners
In addition IIAS maintains close working relationships with many other institutes and departments at Leiden University such as the Faculty of Archaeology, the School of Asian Studies, the Institute of History and the Scaliger Institute. It also collaborates with the Museum of Antiquities, the Museum of Ethnology, Brill academic publishers and Leiden and Amsterdam University Press. 

Other partners in the Netherlands

• Amsterdam University Press
• Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (ASSR)
• Brill academic publishers
• Canon Foundation Europe
• Clingendael Institute for International Relations
• Delft University of Technology, Delft School of Design, Delft
• EYE film institute, Amsterdam
• Erasmus University, School of History, Culture and Communication, Rotterdam
• Free University (VU), Amsterdam
• International Institute of Social History (IISG)
• Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, Leiden
• Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
• Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
• Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
• N.W. Posthumus Instituut, Rotterdam
• Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES)
• Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW), Gonda Foundation
• Royal Institute for the Tropics (KIT), Amsterdam
• Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden
• Sieboldhuis Japan Museum, Leiden
• Stichting Erfgoed Nederland
• University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCor)
• Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst (VvVAK), Amsterdam
• Werkgroep Indonesische Vrouwenstudies

Europe

European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance)

The European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance) is a co-operative framework of European institutes specializing in Asian Studies.

• IIAS (initiator and secretariat)
• CEAS, Bucarest
• Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (CEAO, Centre for East Asian Studies), Madrid
• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI Sciences Po), Paris)
• Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen
• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London

Association for Korean Studies in Europe
AKSE is the main scholarly society for Korean studies in greater Europe.

Partners by country

Austria

• Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaft

Belgium

• European Policy Centre (EPC)
• University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

Denmark

• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)
• University of Copenhagen

France

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI Sciences Po), Paris)
• Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), Paris
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville 
• Paris VII
• Universite de Provence, Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique

Germany

• Asia – Africa – Institute (AAI), Hamburg
• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
• Humboldt Universität, Max Plank Institute, Berlin
• Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
• Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster

Netherlands

see above under Leiden / Amsterdam and the Netherlands

Russia

• Russian Academy of Sciences
  - Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS)
  - Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberian Division
  

Spain

• Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (CEAO, Centre for East Asian Studies), Madrid

Sweden

• Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS), Stockholm

United Kingdom

• Leeds University
• School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), London UK
• University College London, Development Planning Unit (DPU)

Beyond Europe

International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)

• IIAS (initiator and secretariat)
• Participants from 60 different countries representing 500 institutions
  

Set up by IIAS in 1997, ICAS acts as the only global platform for representatives of academia and civil society to focus on issues critical to Asia. ICAS has grown into the largest biennial Asia events outside the U.S. ICAS meetings have been held in Hawai'i (2011), Daejeon (2009), Kuala Lumpur (2007), Shanghai (2005), Singapore (2003), Berlin (2001) and Leiden (1998). ICAS also publishes a book series. IIAS serves as the permanent secretariat of ICAS. An international council is being developed.
More information: www.icassecretariat.org

Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA)

• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
• Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Delft (TUD), Delft, The Netherlands
• Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), Paris, France
• Development and Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, London, United Kingdom
• College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
• School of Architecture, Tianjin University (Tianjin), Tianjin, China
• Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences, Shanghai, China
• China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD), Beijing, China
• Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru, India
• Ambedkar University (AUD), New Delhi, India
• Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad, India
• Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University (HKU), Hong Kong
• School of Policy, Planning and Development (SPPD), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

UKNA is a network of 102 researchers from 13 partner institutes in Europe, China, India and the United States. Its key objective is the nurturing of contextualised and policy-relevant knowledge on Asian cities. This will be done via a series of research staff exchanges starting in April 2012 and specifically targeted case-study-based research, all of which relates to the network’s three main themes of Housing, Heritage, and the Environment.

IIAS holds the secretariat of the network and was awarded a substansive grant under the Marie Curie Actions ‘International Research Staff Exchange Scheme’ (IRSES) of the European Union to coordinate the staff exchanges within the network.  

Europe-Asia Policy Platform (EUforAsia)

• Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
• European Institute for Asian Studies (EAIS), Brussels
• IIAS
• Singapore Institute for International Affaires

The Europe-Asia Policy Forum (EUforAsia) has been set up to improve Europe's understanding of Asia and to provide a growing rapport between the two regions.
More information: http://www.euforasia.eu/

Asian Borderlands Research Network

• IIAS (secretariat)
• Leiden University
• University of Amsterdam
• Researchers and Asia Scholars from various institutions worldwide

The Asian Borderlands Research Network has been developed with the intention of focusing particularly on the border regions between South Asia, Central/East and Southeast Asia. A conference is organised in one of these border regions in co-operation with a local partner every two year.
More information: www.asianborderlands.net/about

Partners by region and country

America
Australasia

America

USA

• Association for Asian Studies, INC., (AAS)
• East-West Center, Hawai'i
• Cornell University
• Pacific Rim Council for Urban Development (PRCUD)
• Princeton University
• University of Southern California
• University of Hawai'i

Australasia

Australia

• Austrial National University

Cambodia

• Centre for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap

China

• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
  - Institute of Industrial Economics, CASS
  - Institute of West Asian and African Studies, CASS
  - Research Centre in Minority Languages of the PRC, Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology, CASS
• Chinese Centre for Tibetan Studies
• Fuzhou University, International Sinological Institute
• Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), Shanghai
• University of Kunming
• University of Macau

India

• Indonesian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi
• Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR), New Delhi
• Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim
• Sardar Patel University (SPU), Vallabh Vidhyanagar

Indonesia

• Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Jakarta
• Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities, Jakarta
• Mulawarman University, Faculty of Forestry, Samarinda
• State Ministry of Research and Technology, Indonesia

 Japan

• Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities
• National Institutes for the Humanities, Tokyo
• Tokyo University

Korea

• Academy of Korean Studies
• Korea Foundation, Seoul

 Malaysia

• Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka, Malaysia
• University of Malaysia, Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA) and Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON), National
• Ministry of Education of Malaysia

Mauritius

• University of Mauritius (UOM), Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI)

Mongolia

• Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Nepal

• Research Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS)

Pakistan

• University Grants Commission (UGC)/ Ministry of Education
• University of Karachi
• University of Peshawar
• University of Punjab
• University of Sindh

Philippines

• University of the Philippines

Singapore

• Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore
• Asia-Europe Foundation University Alumni Network (ASEFUAN)
• Centre for Environment, Gender and Development (ENGENDER)
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore (ISEAS)
• Nanyang Technological University
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
  -Asia Research Institute (ARI), NUS
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS
• Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA)

South Korea

• Korea Foundation
• Korea Research Foundation (KRF), Seoul

Sri Lanka

• University of Kelaniya, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (PGIAR), Sri Lanka

Taiwan

• Academia Sinica (AS)
  - Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), AS
  - Institute of Sociology on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Research Program (APARP), AS
• Bureau of International Cultural & Educational Relations (BICER), Ministry of Education of Taiwan, Taipei
• National Science Council (NSC) Taipei

Thailand

• Chulalongkorn University, Economic research center Center for International economics
• Mahidol University for the Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development (Mahidol/ILCRD)
• RamKhamhaeng University
• SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA)
• Southeast Asian Mountain Peoples' Culture and Development: Research, Documentation and Information Programmes (SEAMP-CD-RDI)

 Vietnam

• Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)

Sponsors

IIAS research programmes, fellowships and activities are made possible by various sponsors:

• Academy for Korean Studies
• African Studies Centre
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation
• Asia Cultural Council, New York
• Asia Europe Foundation in Singapore (ASEF)
• Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
• British Academy 
• Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academia Sinica
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China
• Corts Foundation
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore (ISEAS)
• J. Gonda Foundation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
• European Commission, European Union, Brussels
• Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
• Georgia State University
• Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF)
• Leon Levy Foundation
• Ministry of Education, the Netherlands
• Ministery of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands
• Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Belgium
• Museum Volkendekunde, (Museum of Ethnology), Leiden, The Netherlands
• Nanyang University of Technology
• National Science Council (NSC), Government of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Numata Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
• South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS)
• University of New Castle Upon Tyne
• University of Amsterdam
• Vrije Universiteit (VU University Amsterdam), Amsterdam