The 2026 Balzan Prize for The Social Science of Digital Technology was awarded to Professor Elena Esposito, member of the Film, Media and Visual Studies Section of Academia Europaea.

Read an interview with Professor Stein Kuhnle MAE where he looks back on the evolution of the welfare state.

Academia Europaea mourns the loss of Professor Ivan T. Berend (1930-2026).

Fraud alert: Phishing email impersonating the Academy President, Professor Donald Dingwell.

Advance notice of the date and time of the 38th Annual General (Business) Meeting of members.
Time: 13 October 2026.
Venue: BÁLNA (Whale Event Center), Budapest, Hungary.

The Young Academy's 2026 André Mischke YAE Prize is awarded to Professor Dr. Ieva Plikusienė, researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences of Vilnius University and Chief researcher at the Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania.

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.

Download the 2026 Directory of Academia Europaea.

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

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.