The Institute for Advanced Study of European Culture, an academic institute affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supported by the administration of School of Humanities, aims for  an integrated study on European culture in the domaine of human and social sciences. It will invite and organize famous scholars from home and abroad, focusing on in-depth study of ideological foundation and spiritual core of European culture by examining basic theories and experience of social practice of the European philosophy, history, literature, theology, poetry, anthropology, linguistics, politics, sociology and other humanities and social sciences.