History
The Center for Intercultural Studies and Partnership (CISP) was established in 2003 by a team of Bulgarian academics from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and other representatives of the expert community in a close cooperation with the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, as well as with the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES)
Vision
We seek to mobilize academic expertise and intellectual recourses in order to contribute to the positive social change in southeastern Europe by facilitating the communication and interaction between different academic, cultural, religious and ethnic communities in the region and internationally.
Mission

CISP is an academy-based, independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization. It promotes and conducts interdisciplinary research concerning intercultural relations at the national, regional and international level, establishing partnerships between different cultural, religious and ethnic communities, working through media, political, educational and cultural centers and institutions.The particular mission of CISP is to encourage the partnership between Islam and Muslim societies and communities (in the Middle East and Europe) on the one hand and mainstream (non-Islamic) society in the Balkans, Europe and the West on the other. In this sense the Center focuses on interactions and relations between the followers of Christianity and Islam, where these are understood to include not only the narrow sphere of religious practice, but also social and cultural identityWe facilitate lasting change by:

• Interdisciplinary research;
• Building regional and international networks;
• Contributing to the better flow of information;
• Enhancing the intercultural dialogue;
• Contributing to the policy formation in Bulgaria by functioning as a think tank in the area of intercultural relations.