ÚSD Partners

The Institute and its researchers maintain contacts with a number of foreign scientific institutions through lectures, working visits, participation at conferences, membership in foreign scientific societies and clubs, and by hosting foreign guest researchers. In Germany, such institutions include Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Forschungsverband SED-Staat, the Free University of Berlin, the Zentrum fűr Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, and the Hannah-Arendt-Institut fűr Totalitarismusforschung in Dresden. In Austria, the Institute collaborates with the Institut fűr Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna, the Ost- und Sűdeuropa Institut, and the Institut fűr die Wissenschaft von Menschen in Vienna. The Institute has contacts with L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent a Centre d’études et des recherches internationales in Paris. In the United States, the Institute works on common projects with the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C, the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews in New York. In Great Britain, the Institute maintains contacts with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. In Russia, the Institute cooperates with the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Contemporary History Archive in Moscow. In Poland, the Institute works with the Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw and the University of Warsaw. Among Israeli institutions associated with the Institute are Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv University. In Hungary, the Institute cooperates with the Institute of the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Center for Security and Defense Studies, and the Cold War History Research Center in Budapest. In Canada, it collaborates with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto.
Also worthy of special attention are contacts with historical institutes in the Slovak Republic such as the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Political Science Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Matej Bela University in Banská Bystrica, and the Institute of Social Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice.