Online ◆ BA, MA, PhD ◆ Debt-Free ◆ Annual In-Person Seminars
GCAS is a constituent college of Woolf offering accredited BA, MA, and PhD degrees, awarded by Woolf and supervised by leading scholars of our generation across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Our researchers graduate debt-free and become co-owners of the institution they helped build.
Trasformativo
“GCAS is a safe space to piece through your beliefs with brilliant professors and peers, and emerge with a deep philosophical understanding of the world.”
Senza confini
“GCAS is the future of thought, without borders — academic rigour without rigid barriers, and a global ecosystem of peers who view research as a living movement for real-world impact.”
Since 2013
GCAS is the first college in the world to offer academic programmes on a debt-free, cooperative model — owned in common by the researchers and faculty who built it.
Thirteen years on, GCAS remains the only college of its kind: committed to academic freedom, co-owned by its faculty and graduates, and accountable to its own community rather than to investors or profit-driven growth. GCAS is a constituent college of Woolf.
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GCAS is a constituent college of Woolf, which awards the degrees.
Un viaggio di tre anni attraverso il pensiero critico, l'apprendimento creativo e la ricerca leader a livello mondiale.
Sfidare i paradigmi tradizionali e sviluppare soluzioni per le nostre sfide più difficili.
Learn More →Affrontate le grandi questioni dell'esistenza, della conoscenza e dell'etica con filosofi di fama mondiale.
Studiate con filosofi di spicco in un programma online rigoroso e orientato alla ricerca.
Learn More →Esplorare le profondità della psiche umana con approcci classici e contemporanei.
Combinare teoria e comprensione clinica con analisti e pensatori di fama mondiale.
Learn More →Ripensare la teologia oltre i confini confessionali attraverso la teologia politica, la filosofia e l'etica radicale.
Studio con Chris Hedges, John D. Caputo, Catherine Keller e Barry Taylor.
Learn More →The world’s first MA with a concentration in Anarchist Studies. Radical critique meets rigorous research.
Studiare con Silvia Federici, Chris Hedges e Franco Berardi in un programma globale unico.
Learn More →The first 100% online LL.M. for top legal strategists, awarded by Woolf.
Advance your legal career with an innovative, fully online law degree.
Learn More →Condurre ricerche originali che affrontino le questioni più urgenti per l'umanità.
Entrate a far parte di una comunità di ricerca globale con supervisori di livello mondiale e un supporto accademico completo.
Learn More →Contribuire alla conoscenza che fa progredire la sopravvivenza e la prosperità del pianeta.
Perseguire un'indagine scientifica rigorosa all'interno della nostra struttura cooperativa e priva di debiti.
Learn More →Facoltà
Researchers at GCAS work directly with some of the most original thinkers in contemporary philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, and political theory.
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In their own words
Umano
At a time when education is becoming more automated and less critical, it’s a pleasure to be at an institution that hasn’t lost its human element.
Rivoluzionario
GCAS is revolutionary. It creates a collective context in which learning becomes synonymous with rewriting paradigms and imagining new realities.
Where we meet
Once a year, GCAS researchers and faculty gather in person — to study, to argue, to walk, and to mark the work of those who have completed their degrees.
The annual seminars are GCAS’s embodied counterweight to its online life. Over the course of a week or two, researchers from across the world meet their supervisors face to face, sit through working sessions with the scholars whose books they have been reading all year, and join a tradition that goes back to the earliest universities. The location changes — Florence in 2026, Paris, Prague, and elsewhere in years past — but the practice does not.
Florence, 2026 — researchers completing their degrees gathered at the Duomo.
Researcher Voices
Gioioso
“It is an incredible joy to be part of such a curious, playful, brilliant, and deeply caring community of international citizen-scholars.”
Accessibile
“GCAS is a place where philosophy transcends borders and intellectual freedom genuinely has a home.”
Personalizzabile
“GCAS gave me self-confidence and helped me find my life path. The courses were inspiring, demanding, and challenging.”
Global
“Living in Nigeria, GCAS allowed me to pursue an EU-accredited degree while remaining close to my family and community.”
Visionario
“GCAS treats research as a mode of movement and thinking. It’s an effort to introduce a counter model.”
Privileged
“To experience philosophy from Luce Irigaray, who’s dedicated her life to developing an alternative approach, was a privilege.”
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An orientation call is the way most researchers begin. It is a real conversation, not a sales pitch.
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