Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Think Tank Foundation (SASS TTF) is a non-profit corporate body for public welfare.
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Think Tank Foundation (SASS TTF) is a non-profit corporate body for public welfare.
The purpose of SASS TTF is to promote the development of top-level think tanks and to provide high-quality decision-making consultation services. SASS TTF funds key policy-oriented research projects, cultivating talents of social sciences, international academic exchanges and cooperation.
SASS TTF, based in Shanghai, provides service nationwide, adheres to the principle of internationalization, promotes the development of China's think tanks and the cooperation with international think tanks by funding or organizing research projects, international conferences, exchange of visits by domestic and foreign experts of think tanks, publication, translation and communication of research findings.
SASS TTF is dedicated to developing and integrating global research networks on policy studies, with a special focus on maintaining a good relationship with America, Europe and Africa, and on policy studies related to these regions. By establishing multi-level communication channels with distinguished foundations, think tanks, universities, government departments and business institutions overseas, the Foundation aims to introduce advanced overseas experience to high-level think tanks in China, and meanwhile explain Chinese ideologies to the international world. To serve this purpose, the Foundation has built a series of influential platforms for international cooperation and communication, including the World Forum for China Studies, the Shanghai Forum on the Belt and Road Initiative, the Academic Symposium on Sino-American-Russian Relations, Shanghai Think Tank Forum, etc. By sponsoring young researchers to travel to international institutions as visiting scholars and by supporting visiting programs for young sinologists, the Foundation keeps contributing to fostering researchers on domestic and foreign policies and sinologists. The Foundation is also actively making efforts to attract high-level research resources so as to conduct profound and innovative research on issues important to the development of China and a Community with a Shared Future.
The foundation funds projects related to major research, important academic exchanges at home and abroad, excellent personnel
training and other public welfare activities related to the purpose of the foundation
We will sponsor research projects on major theoretical and practical issues of concern to the party and the government and to the general public.We will raise the level of decision-making consultation, enhance the ability to innovate in the social sciences, encourage researchers engaged in basic research to pay more attention to practical problems and guidance, and encourage those engaged in applied research to summarize experiences and refine theories.We will encourage the cross-integration of different disciplines and between the social and natural sciences, so as to form interdisciplinary research results and decision-making consulting results and serve the national strategy.
In line with the new trend of the development of modern think tanks, based on the reality of China, closely focusing on the major issues in the development of think tanks, through international exchanges and domestic cooperation, we will establish contact with important think tanks at home and abroad and build a research platform for think tanks.
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