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European Academy of Sciences and Arts

{{Short description|International NGO in Salzburg, Austria}}

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{{Infobox organisation

| name = European Academy of Sciences and Arts

| native_name = {{native name|de|Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste}}

{{native name|la|Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea}}

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| logo = European Academy of Sciences and Arts Logo.png

| purpose = Fundamental and applied research contributing to the development of European scientific and technical potential, culture, education, literature, and arts.

| formation = 1990

| headquarters = Salzburg

| location_city = Salzburg

| location_country = Austria

| website = {{URL|euro-acad.eu/}}

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The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, {{langx|la|Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea}}) is a transnational and interdisciplinary network, connecting about 2,000 recommended scientists and artists worldwide, including 38 Nobel Prize laureates.{{cite web|title=European Academy of Sciences and Arts Nobel Prize Laureates|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/files/Nobel-prize-laureates.pdf|access-date=28 May 2021|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410120335/https://www.euro-acad.eu/files/Nobel-prize-laureates.pdf|url-status=dead}} The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a learned society of scientists and artists, founded by Felix Unger. The academy was founded 1990, is situated in Salzburg and has been supported by the city of Vienna, the government of Austria, and the European Commission.

The EASA is now headed by President Klaus Mainzer, TUM Emeritus of Excellence at the Technical University of Munich and Senior Professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center of the University of Tübingen.{{Cite web |title=News {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts |url=https://euro-acad.eu/news?id=52 |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=euro-acad.eu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Professor Cao Maosen of Hohai University Elected as an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts |url=https://en.hhu.edu.cn/2023/1213/c10330a269501/page.htm |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=en.hhu.edu.cn}}

It is unrelated to and should not be confused with the Belgium-based European Academy of Sciences (EURASC).{{Cite journal|last=Adam|first=David|date=2002-10-31|title=European Academy of Sciences|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=419|issue=6910|pages=865|doi=10.1038/419865a|pmid=12410266 |s2cid=12166219 |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free}}

It is a member of the InterAcademy Partnership.{{cite web|title=European Academy of Sciences and Arts|work=Network|publisher=InterAcademy Partnership|access-date=2020-11-19|url=https://www.interacademies.org/organization/european-academy-sciences-and-arts-easa}} Its activities have included a collaboration with the Latvian Academy of Sciences: the European-Latvian Institute for Cultural and Scientific Exchange (EUROLAT), founded in 1993.{{cite journal|url=https://www.ies.ee/iesp/No9/articles/02_Stradins_Draveniece.pdf|title=the European Academy of Sciences and Arts: Its impact on Latvia|first1=Jānis|last1=Stradiņš|first2=Anita|last2=Draveniece|journal=Baltic Journal of European Studies|volume=1|issue=1|pages=24–31}}

History

The origins date back to a scientific working group with the Salzburg cardiac surgeon Felix Unger, the archbishop from Vienna Franz König and the political scientist and philosopher Nikolaus Lobkowicz. On 7 March 1990, the academy was officially founded in Salzburg, where the academy is still located today.{{Cite web |title=European Academy of Sciences and Arts |url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100055818 |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=uia.org}}

The Festive Plenary of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts takes place annually with the festive admission of new members in Salzburg. On the occasion of the 25th- and 30th- anniversary the celebrations took place with the Federal Presidents of Austria and other Presidents of European countries. Other Protectors (national patrons) of the academy are King Philippe of Belgium, Borut Pahor (State President of Slovenia), Gjorge Ivanov (State President of Macedonia) and since 12 June 2018 Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen. Past Protectors include the former EU Commission President and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jacques Santer, the former King of Spain Juan Carlos I, and the former EU Commission President and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.

Vision and membership

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is politically independent and financed by donations, private sponsors and public institutions. The activities of the academy do not aim at financial profit.{{Cite web|title=Partners & Funding {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/partners-funding|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.euro-acad.eu|language=en}} The academy is a forum of scholars who take up interdisciplinarily and transdisciplinarily scientific topics with societal impact. Since 2020, the academy had circa 2000 academicians worldwide. These are respected and recommended scientists and artists, among them 38 Nobel Prize Laureates. New members are considered following nominations from existing members. The Senate decides on admission on the basis of recommendations of the nomination commission. The membership is considered as distinction of the merits in science and society.{{Cite web|title=Members {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/members|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.euro-acad.eu|language=en}}

Members are entitled to use the postnominal, MEASA. Famous members of the EASA include the economist Hans-Werner Sinn, Michail Gorbatschow (Nobel Peace Prize), the artist Jenny Holzer, and Pope em. Benedict XVI.

Current members who are Nobel Prize Laureates are as follows.

Academicians

A full list of academicians of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts are accessible here.

File:Mainzer2022.jpg

Organisation

The academy is a non-profit association according to the Austrian Association. The current President of the academy is Klaus Mainzer who in 2020 followed the Founding President Felix Unger. The Vice presidents are Birgit Harreß, Wolfango Plastino, and Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth.{{Cite web|title=News {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/news?id=52|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.euro-acad.eu|language=en}}

Members of the academy come from 73 countries and are divided into eight classes:{{Cite web|title=Classes {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/classes|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.euro-acad.eu|language=en}}

  • Class I: Humanities – Dean: Boštjan Marko Turk
  • Class II: Medicine – Dean: Dusan Suput
  • Class III: Arts – Dean: Violeta Dinescu
  • Class IV: Natural Sciences – Dean: Ioannis Liritzis
  • Class V: Social Sciences, Law, and Economics – Dean: Kurt Schmoller
  • Class VI: Technology and Environmental Sciences – Dean: Sergio Orlandi
  • Class VII: World Religions – Dean: Mariano Delgado

Prize of Tolerance

Since 1997 the European Academy of Sciences and Arts has awarded the Prize of Tolerance to acknowledge the engagement for humanity and tolerance. Guided by the targets of the Charter of Tolerance, this prize is awarded to persons or institutions which actively engage for tolerance and humanness, but also for cross-border dialogue and against racism.{{Cite web|title=Prize of Tolerance & Rings of Tolerance {{!}} European Academy of Sciences and Arts|url=https://www.euro-acad.eu/prize-of-tolerance-rings-of-tolerance|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.euro-acad.eu|language=en}}

The previous award winners are:

Rings of Tolerance

Prize award of the Rings of Tolerance in the City Hall of Cologne

Since 2012, the academy annually awards the Rings of Tolerance to members of the three religions of Abraham according to Lessing's Parable of the Ring, in order to support justice and tolerance between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

The previous award winners are:{{Cite web |title=Rings of Tolerance |url=https://euro-acad.eu/files/Laureates_Rings%20of%20Tolerance.pdf |website=euro-acad.eu}}

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.euro-acad.eu/}}

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