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- Supporting both postdoctoral researchers and PhD students at the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) to undertake fieldwork in different world regions as well as to establish and strengthen contacts with universities and research institutes worldwide.
- Promoting international discussions about findings of CAS projects and programmes as well as developing new research questions through workshops and conferences.
- Addressing an audience both inside and outside academia in hopes of stimulating public debate through lectures on how to manage regionally the global challenges being researched and investigated upon at CAS.
- Publishing and distributing research results of CAS for an international readership, foremost through peer-reviewed journals. At the same time, supporting a higher quality of instruction by publishing textbooks and providing overviews of topics only recently investigated.
- Encouraging offshoot interdisciplinary research leading to closer cooperation between CAS and participating institutions in teaching at the BA, MA and PhD levels.
- Assisting in the translation and distribution of research findings and designs into new interdisciplinary study courses and related publications.
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