The School of Advanced Studies (SAS; ) is a greenfield experimental higher institution at the University of Tyumen in Siberia, Russia, focusing on both teaching and multidisciplinary research. Academics SAS curricula contains core and elective courses. Electives are courses that both permanent and visiting faculty offer for all the SAS students based on the faculty's research interests. Out of 4 weekly sessions, one is reserved for student teamwork. In the academic year 2019–20, SAS offered 31 different electives. During the first two years, students follow the core curriculum and also take elective courses. Afterwards, students declare one of the seven majors: Information Technology and Digital Society, Cultural Studies, Life Sciences, Economics, Film and Media Studies, Historical Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology. Additionally, students complete one of the minors. In addition to the BA program, SAS offers a Master program: Master of Arts in Experimental Higher Education. The Experimental Higher Education (MA X-HE) program was launched in 2020. It is a 2-year long program which aims to train its students to become professionals in higher education, focusing on educational innovations. Innovative and experimental teaching methods are also implemented in undergraduate study programs, such as the use of Wikipedia as a tool for academic service learning to foster students' development of 21st century skills (see: Wikipedia:School and university projects). Research SAS research is carried out in multidisciplinary research teams. In 2020, there were four research teams operating within SAS: Citizenship Reframed: Reimagining Political Belonging through the Environment, Psychology, and Visuality; Education in the Tragic Key: Learning in an age of Crisis and Anxiety; Free Will, Consciousness, Determinism: An Interdisciplinary Investigation; Unnaturally Human: Enhancement and Manipulation of Human Capacity to Perceive and Perform. Faculty SAS faculty are a combination of full-time professors and visiting professors. Faculty are selected via the Project Design Session cluster hiring process, based on how they perform in multidisciplinary teamwork exercises. Academic writing center The Academic writing center helps SAS students with their writing by offering them feedback in the form of one-on-one consultations. The AWC also organises workshops for the students. Outreach During the academic year, SAS offers open courses twice a week, which are free for the public to attend, are recorded and published on the School's YouTube channel. Every summer, SAS runs a summer school for high-school students. Each year, SAS organizes a conference. The past conferences include: Disciplinary Landscape — 2020, "Dare to Experiment: Higher