Balzan Prize

Fondazione Internazionale Balzan “Premio”#


As Chair of the General Prize Committee of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” and on behalf of my colleagues on the Committee, I have the honour of inviting you to submit the names of candidates for the

2025 Balzan Prizes#

which will be awarded in the following four subjects:

Classics: Athenian Democracy Revisited#

History of Contemporary Art#

Atoms and Ultra-Precise Measurement of Time#

Gene and Gene-Modified Cell Therapy#


Each of the four 2025 Balzan Prizes is 750,000 Swiss francs.

Half the Prize money will be awarded to the Prizewinner in recognition of her/his work. The other half will be destined by the Prizewinner to a research project involving young researchers or research groups. The research proposal will be subject to the approval of the General Prize Committee.

Marta Cartabia
Chair; Full Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University, Milan
President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court; former Minister of Justice of Italy
December 2024

Nomination instructions
Nomination deadline: March 15, 2025.
Academia Europaea deadline: February 28, 2025.#



ANY MEMBER of Academia Europaea who wishes to be considered for AE nomination MUST first contact the relevant Class chair. The AE internal closing date is the end of February 2025. #

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