This is the official account of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. UCL SSEES is one of the world's leading specialist institutions, and the largest national centre in the UK, for the study of Central, Eastern and South-East Europe and Russia.

This year, in 2015, SSEES is celebrating its centenary. One hundred years after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who later became the first President of Czechoslovakia, delivered the lecture that inaugurated the School, we now stand as a world-leading institution specialising in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.

A host of events will commemorate the occasion, aimed to reflect the diversity of the School’s activities and the countries of the SSEES region.