Academica Sinica
| 中央研究院 | |
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| Formed | 1928 (in Republic of China) 1949 (in Taiwan) |
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Taipei, Taiwan 25°2.58678′N 121°36.98658′E / 25.04311300°N 121.61644300°E |
| Employees | ~5800 (incl. 976 Principal Investigators, 111 research specialists, 775 Post-Docs, 2150 Students) |
| Annual budget | 17 billion NTD ($0.55 billion) (2016) |
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| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 中央研究院 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Central Research Academy | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngyāng Yánjiùyuàn |
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| Hokkien POJ | Tiong-iong-gián-kiù-īⁿ |
Academia Sinica (Han characters: 中央研究院, literally "central research academy"; abbreviated AS), headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. It supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences. As an educational institute, it provides PhD training and scholarship through its English-language Taiwan International Graduate Program in biology, agriculture, chemistry, physics, informatics, and earth and environmental sciences. Academia Sinica is ranked 144th in Nature Publishing Index - 2014 Global Top 200 and 22nd in Reuters World's Most Innovative Research Institutions.
The Academia Sinica was founded by the Republic of China Nationalist government in 1928. Its first meeting was held in Shanghai. After the Chinese Civil War, it was relocated to Taiwan. The academy was envisioned as an organization that would oversee and coordinate scientific, social science, and humanistic research in all of the Republic of China's state-sponsored research institutes and universities. Unlike other government-sponsored research institutes which are responsible to relevant Executive Yuan ministries, Academia Sinica, as the nation's premier research institution, is directly responsible to the President of the Republic of China. Thus Academia Sinica enjoys autonomy in formulating its own research objectives. In addition to academic research on various subjects in the sciences and humanities, Academia Sinica's major tasks also include providing guidelines, channels of coordination, and incentives with a view to raising academic standards in the country.
At the time of Academia Sinica's founding there were already a number of other, smaller institutes in several cities in Republic of China. Academia Sinica incorporated a number of these into its organization, and rapidly built nine institutes: meteorology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, psychology, history and philology, and sociology, most of which were located in the city of Nanking.
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