Alessandro Lenci MAE, Full Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Pisa, was awarded the prestigious ERC ERC Advanced Grant for the project CLIMB, Cognitively-Inspired Language Models for Investigating Human Language Acquisition and Processing.

AE Bergen Hub Academic Director Lise Øvreås is elected as a new Board Member of the Polar Academy.

Professor Farooq Azam, Emeritus Professor from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, was awarded the 2026 Kyoto Prize in Biological Sciences.

The Academia Europaea are pleased to award the 2026 SYDNEY BRENNER Medal for achievements in the Life Sciences, to Professor Meritxell Huch MAE, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG).

The Academia Europaea are delighted to announce the award the 2026 Erasmus Medal to the intellectual historian Professor Quentin Skinner MAE.

Read about the new publication by Professor Cornelia Ilie where she explores the implications and impact of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space by challenging war-peace dichotomies and critically scrutinising underlying inferences of political conceptualisations, historical metanarratives, argumentation strategies, reflective storytelling and visual mediatization.

Professor Donald Dingwell was elected Foreign Member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (RACAB).

Jan Krajíček MAE receives the Shoenfield Prize for his publication "Proof Complexity" published by the Cambridge University Press.

In an event jointly organised by Academia Europaea Budapest Knowledge Hub, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Szent-Györgyi National Academy of Scientist Education (NASE) more than 700 students received their graduation diploma in the presence of several members of Academia Europaea.

The call for nominations for the seventh edition of the Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize which recognises a research career in Science and Technology is open.

Professor Antonino Cattaneo MAE, elected to the Physiology and Neuroscience Section in 2020, passed away at the age of 72 years.
Read an obituary by Professors Michela Matteoli MAE and Maria Concetta Morrone MAE.

The denomination of the "Social and Related Sciences" Class of Academia Europaea was changed to "Social Sciences" Class.

Professor Matthias Tschöp, member of the Physiology and Neuroscience Section of Academia Europaea was named as the recipient of the 2026 Broermann Medical Innovation Award.

Academia Europaea are saddened to announce the death of Professor Frank Grosveld, longstanding member of the Cell and Developmental Biology Section.

Thirteen members of Academia Europaea elected as members of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Four members of Academia Europaea are awarded the Feltrinelli Prizes by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Professor Ioannis Liritzis MAE was appointed Distinguished Professor at Chuzhou University during the 2026 International Science and Technology Activity Week.

2026 Lifetime Achievement Award honours Stefano Bartolini, member of the Governance, Institutions and Policies Section of Academia Europaea since 2022.

Professor Mihály Pósfai MAE, member of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences Section of Academia Europaea was elected President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Nine members of Academia Europaea, among them President of Academia Europaea, Professor Donald Dingwell MAE, have been elected as international members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Read the report of the TEA-NET Symposium 2026 held at CUHK on March 13.

Election and registration of new members elected in 2026.

Read about the activities of the Academia Europaea Knowledge Hubs in Barcelona, Bucharest, Budapest, Tbilisi and Wrocław.

Download the 2025 Directory of Academia Europaea.

European Review, the journal of Academia Europaea, is now a fully open access journal and content published from January 2025 is freely available to read online.