About us

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.

CEEasia Forum

CEIAS hosts and organizes an annual gathering of stakeholders in Europe-Asia relations with the specific focus on Central and Eastern Europe’s role.

China-Europe Academic Engagement Tracker

A database of interactions between European academic institutions and Chinese entities, created by CEIAS and partners from investigated countries.

Geoeconomics program

CEIAS has conducted extensive research on global supply chains and FDI patterns, the issue of corrosive capital and risks of exposure to China and trade weaponization.

Global views on China

CEIAS has been a partner of the Sinophone Borderlands project, run at Palacky University Olomouc, while conducting a unique public opinion survey studying attitudes towards China in 56 countries worldwide.

CEIAS Center for CEE-Taiwan Relations

An initiative and a specialized unit tasked with producing and disseminating expert knowledge necessary for ensuring sustainable development of relations between Taiwan and the EU, with a special focus on the CEE countries.

EU-Taiwan Tracker

A comprehensive tracker of key developments in relations between Taiwan and the 27 EU member states from January 2019 onwards. This tool is for anyone from the scholarly, policymaking, and journalistic community working on EU-Taiwan relations.

Europe in the Volatile Indo-Pacific (EUVIP)

CEIAS is a dissemination partner of the EU-funded EUVIP project, which studies current developments in the Indo-Pacific region. As this region is becoming strategically, politically, and economically increasingly important, EUVIP aims to raise awareness of its significance for Europe by connecting academia and policymakers.

Participation in the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC)

CEIAS is a partner of ETNC, a think tank network devoted to the policy-oriented study of relations between China and European countries as well as China and the EU. 

Chinese Media Watch

An overview of Chinese media discourse on various policy-related issues with connection to Europe.

Myanmar coup tracker

A tracker developed in cooperation with Transparency International CZ, dedicated to mapping key events following Myanmar’s military attempt to seize power from the civilian government on 1 February 2021.

Chinese propaganda and disinformation

CEIAS has focused on mapping China’s disinformation and propaganda activities in Central Europe publishing a series of reports covering the issue.

2023

2022