It also strove to set up an international network on the level of individual, as well as institutional, co-operation. Ever since 1995, there has been ongoing formal co-operation with the Centre Louis Gernet at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Discussions on co-operation with numerous other eminent institutions in Europe and the USA are currently underway. Furthermore, the ISH is drawing up joint projects for the development of new graduate programmes, as well as a scheme to facilitate teachers and students exchange. The ISH was founded with the intention of complementing the existing graduate study programmes and not to compete with them.
Complementarity remains the guideline in future as well.
The rapid development of the School infers a change in the framework of its operation and calls for adjustments in the organisational structure of the whole institution. The basis for the reorganisation will be a credit system and, consequently, lateral transitions between study programmes. Another goal of the network is co-operation in research.