A popularization project of 3D animation movie about the place of humanity in the universe and the environment.

Academia Euroapea thanks its members, patrons, institutional sponsors and partners and all visitors of its web site for a fruitful 2018.
Holiday closure of AE headquarters, Knowledge Hubs and the Graz Information Centre.

André Mischke (1972-2018)

BREXIT, NATIONALITY AND UNION CITIZENSHIP: BOTTOM UP
An article by Prof. Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira.
Presented at the History & Archaeology Section first bi-annual workshop
in the Wrocław Knowledge Hub, 3-4 September 2018.

On Monday 24th September, more than 80 members of Academia Europaea (MAEs) gathered at the Royal Society in London to mark the Academia Europaea’s 30th anniversary.

Call for Nominations for the first edition of the Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize.
Deadline for nominations: October 31, 2018 at 5 pm.

Gold Medal awarded to Robert-Jan Smits MAE (h.c).
Monday 24th September 2018, at the Royal Society, London.

Academia Europaea is pleased to report the award of the 2018 Balzan Prize to Professor Eva Kondorosi (member of the AE Board), Professor Juergen Osterhammel and Professor Marilyn Strathern.

Half-year report available now.

Advance notice: The 30th Annual Business meeting of members of the Academia Europaea will take place on 28 November 2018 at the Institut D’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 15:00 – 16:00.

Interview with Professor John Tucker MAE, Professor of Computer Science, Swansea University

Deadline to receive nominations is 1 October.

The Board of trustees and Council are pleased to announce that the 2018 Erasmus Medal will be presented to Hans Clevers at the 30th annual meeting of the Academia, Barcelona – 29th November, 2018.
Professor Clevers will deliver the 2018 Erasmus - Heinz-Nixdorf Lecture entitled “Stem cell based organoids as avatars in human disease”.

Academia Europaea invites its members to sign the petition.

Academia Europaea issues an OPEN LETTER to Mr Michel Barnier and Mr David Davis

Academia Europaea has expressed strong support for the recent letter signed by 153 Directors of the Max Planck Society Institutes.

On 12 April, an afternoon informal tea-party in the presence of Professor Arnold Burgen, the founding President of the Academy, was hosted at the Darwin College Cambridge in recognition of the establishment of Academia Europaea in 1988.

Letter by Sierd Cloetingh to Minister László Palkovics regarding the proposed amendment of the Law on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Law on the 2019 State Budget of Hungary.

June 2018. With news about the 2018 nomination cycle, the award of the Gold Medal of the Academy and the Erasmus Medal, the 2018 Annual General Meeting of Members, Wroclaw Hub activities, among others.

Sir Roger Elliott, former Treasurer of Academia Europaea, passed away on April 16, 2018.

The Academia Europaea strongly supports the recent views expressed by the Wellcome Trust in its report "Building a Strong Future for European Science: Brexit and Beyond"

Spring 2018

Job advertisement: Head of Communications in SAPEA
Starting date: As soon as possible, ideally 1 July 2018
End date: 31 October 2020 (provisional termination of SAPEA grant)
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Nicole Grobert, Professor of Nanomaterials at the Department of Materials in the University of Oxford, and former Young Academy of Europea (YAE) Chair joins Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to EC Commissioner Moedas.

URGENT SAPEA call for experts.
Call for nominations for: an international Working Group, one Working Group Vice-Chair, independent reviewers, position of scientific writer, and a published report.
Deadline for response: 10 May 2018.

Judith Lockett, the Executive Officer of the Cardiff Knowledge Hub, has retired.

Ole H. Petersen, Vice President of Academia Europaea, is awarded the Physiology in Perspective: The Walter B. Cannon Award Lectureship.

The Brain Prize for 2018 is awarded to Bart De Strooper and Christian Haass.

BarceloNews - Newsletter of the Barcelona Knowledge Hub
No. 1/2018, March 2018

Nominations are now being accepted for the second KNAW Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Award. The deadline for nominations is 1 May 2018.