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| Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste | |
|---|---|
| Name | Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste |
| Native name | Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Salzburg, Austria |
| President | Heinrich von Pierer |
| Type | learned society |
| Language | German, English |
Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste is a transnational learned society based in Salzburg that brings together scholars, artists, and public figures from across Europe to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue. Founded in 1990, the academy fosters collaboration among members from institutions such as University of Vienna, University of Oxford, Sorbonne University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. It situates itself amid European networks that include Council of Europe, European Union, NATO, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and regional bodies like the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and European Cultural Foundation.
The academy was established in the aftermath of the Cold War and the German reunification period, with founding contacts among personalities from Austria, Germany, Italy, France, and United Kingdom. Early patrons and interlocutors included figures associated with Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, and institutions like the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society. The 1990s phase saw cooperative projects linked to the European Union enlargement debates, dialogues with stakeholders from Central Europe and Eastern Europe such as Lech Wałęsa, Boris Yeltsin, and intellectuals associated with Charles University. During the 2000s the academy engaged with policy themes debated at summits like the Lisbon Summit and meetings involving the European Commission and the European Parliament, while responding to crises reflected in the 2008 financial crisis and the European debt crisis.
Governance follows a presidium model with offices anchored in Salzburg and working groups distributed across hubs in Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Warsaw, and Madrid. Administrative links connect the academy to agencies such as the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and cultural partners including the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Salzburg Festival. Committees are organized by panels that parallel formats used by the Royal Society, the Académie des Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the National Academy of Sciences (United States). Financial and legal frameworks reference arrangements similar to those of European Research Council grants, philanthropic models like the Carnegie Corporation, and endowment practices seen at the Wellcome Trust.
Membership comprises elected fellows from diverse sectors, including laureates and honorees such as recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Pritzker Prize in architecture; eminent politicians and statespersons resembling Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin (as counterpart interlocutor), and Jens Stoltenberg in comparative contexts; cultural figures comparable to Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Isabel Allende; as well as jurists and judges connected to the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice. Institutional fellows come from universities like University of Cambridge, University of Bologna, ETH Zurich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique, and research organizations including the Fraunhofer Society and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Honorary memberships echo practices seen with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Order of the British Empire.
Research initiatives are structured around dossiers that intersect with panels on cultural heritage linked to UNESCO, climate research dialogues similar to those at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, digital policy debates paralleling European Digital Strategy deliberations, and bioethics discussions in the spirit of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Program collaborations have involved projects with the European University Institute, Institut Pasteur, CERN, Max Planck Institutes, and think tanks like the Bruegel and Centre for European Policy Studies. The academy runs fellowship schemes modeled after the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and summer academies inspired by the European Humanities University and the Villa Vigoni program, bringing together researchers affiliated with Princeton University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and regional partners in Bucharest and Belgrade.
Annual conferences, symposia, and public lectures occur in venues such as the Grosses Festspielhaus, the Royal Albert Hall (comparative cultural exchanges), and university auditoria across Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Zagreb. The academy awards prizes and medals that echo formats like the Fields Medal (for young scientists), the Wolf Prize, the Bayerische Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst (regional precedent), and the Honorary Medal of the City of Vienna. Events have included panels with personalities from European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and diplomatic interlocutors from United Nations missions. The academy also organizes commemorative colloquia tied to anniversaries such as the Treaty of Maastricht and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publication output includes monographs, edited volumes, policy briefs, and proceedings issued under imprints comparable to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, and De Gruyter. The academy's series has hosted contributions by scholars associated with Noam Chomsky (linguistics intersections), Jürgen Habermas (philosophy), Umberto Eco (semiotics), and historians engaging with archives from Bundesarchiv, Archives Nationales, and the Vatican Secret Archives (Archivum Secretum Vaticanum). Peer-reviewed journals and open-access reports produced by the academy are cited alongside titles from The Lancet, Nature, Science, and the European Journal of International Law.
Category:Learned societies in Europe