**ANNUAL TRUSTEE (activity) REPORT without individual Knowledge Hub Reports FOR 2023** UK Registered office **Room 251, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tele: +44 (0) 20 7862 5784 Email: admin@acadeuro.org Web: http://www.ae-info.org A UK Company limited by guarantee and registered at Companies House. Registration number 07028223 Registered with the Charity Commission, registration number 1133902** Also; The Academia Europaea e.V Munich has its registered office at: Academia Europaea e.V. Room 336, 3rd floor Theresienstr. 41 80333 München GERMANY Amtsgericht München (Registration Number): VR 210134 Tax number: 143/210/03525 1 |**Contents:**|||||||||**Page**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section 1**|**Governance**||||||||**3**| |**Section 2:**|**The structure and mission of the Academia Europaea**||||||||**6**| |**Section 3:**|**Trustees**|||||||**23**|**6**| |**Section 4:**|**Centrally co-ordinated activities**||||||||**8**| |**Section 5:**|**Academia Europaea Outreach activity**||||||||**14**| |**Section 6:**|**Events with AE Sponsorship & Patronage**||||||||**16**| |**Section 7:**|**Corporate matters, Hubs and Membership**||||||||**22**| |**Section 8:**|**Statement of Trustees**||||||||**24**| |**Annex 1 New**|**members elected in 2023**||||||||**26**| |**Annex 2 Trustees, Council, and Section Committee**||||**composition as at 31st December 2023**|||||**36**| **Reports of the activity of the AE Knowledge Hubs for 2021 are available. They are large files and are available to download from www.ae-info.org or, on request from the individual Hub offices, or online at the following URLs;** **Barcelona Hub at: https://aebarcelona.eu/ - Bergen Hub at: https://aebergen.w.uib.no/annual reports/ - Budapest Hub: https://www.ae info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Budapest_Knowledge_Hub Cardiff Hub at: http://aecardiffknowledgehub.wales/about-us/documents/** Munich Hub NA **Tbilisi Hub at: https://www.aetbilisihub.org Wroclaw Hub at: https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/** 2 ## **SECTION 1: Governance** ## **THE TRUSTEES OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA** ## **Board of TRUSTEES (at 31 December 2023)** ## **Elected Officers (3)** **President:** Professor Marja Makarow Helsinki, (to end 2024, renewable) **Vice President:** Professor Don Dingwell Munich, (to end 2025, renewable) **Hon. Treasurer:** Professor Stephen Evans Cambridge (to end of 2025, renewable) **Co-opted Members:** Professor Ole Petersen Cardiff (till end 2023) Professor Eva Kondorosi Budapest, (until end 2026) Professor Poul Holm Dublin, (to end 2025) Professor Bjorn Wittrock Uppsala, (until end 2024) Professor Eystein Jansen Bergen, (until end of 2024) Professor Paolo Papale Rome (until end of 2027) Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs Zagreb (appointed from 1[st] January 2023 to 2025) The list of Section chairs, as at 31 December 2023, is at annex 2 of this report. Professor Dingwell continued as the Academic Director of the Munich Hub. Class chairs are trustees. At the end of 2023 they were; Class A1 Humanities and Arts Chair Professor Poul Holm (Trustee), VP ex o Class A2 Social and Related Sciences Chair Professor Bjorn Wittrock (Trustee) VP ex o Class B Exact Sciences Professor Paolo Papale (Trustee), VP ex o Class C Life Sciences Professor Eva Kondorosi (Trustee) VP ex o Note, that in our Articles of Association, the Council is described as an advisory body to the trustees. Since the creation of the Class system, the single Council now effectively operates through the Class configurations. The Classes and their component Sections each CONSTITUTE ONE PART OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL. The Class chairs are thus the _de facto_ representatives of the Sections on the Board of trustees. The trustees did consult electronically throughout the year with their sectoral Council members ( the Section chairs) on specific issues, in the Class configuration. Class committees (comprising the Chairs of the Section committees) have been assigned responsibility for the management of the nominations and selection process for new members and they will overtime become responsible for delivery of activity programmes, as envisaged by the Strategic Plan 2019 2024. In view of this reorientation of responsibility and the fact that the Classes now fulfil the role of the former plenary Council, but in a more efficient way, the trustees will review the Regulations in 2023/4 to better reflect the new working structure. During 2023 there was no activity assigned to the wholly owned subsidiary company in Bergen Norway, operating under the Bergen Knowledge Hub. The CEO appointed by the Board, was Professor Eystein Jansen (the current Bergen Hub Academic Director) and the other Director is the AE Executive Secretary Dr David Coates. As of 20th September 2023, the trustees signed articles to establish a new AE Munich legal entity (Academia Europaea e.V - eingetragener Verein). This development had been strongly endorsed by the AE Independent Advisory Group in 2022. All members of the AE had been informed of the plans at the AGM of 2022 and the strategic plan refers to the Board of trustees keeping the post-BREXIT situation under review. Since the creation of the new legal entity, the UK government had agreed to re-associate to the Horizon Europe programme, that ends in 2027. However, this does not alter the current funding arrangements for SAPEA plus and the AE. Therefore, the intention is that over time, the new Munich legal entity will become the AE HQ for all dealings with the EU and facilitate access for all members of the AE. The new entity will also assume other responsibilities from London over time. The London charity will continue to run in parallel and both will operate under a common Board of trustees for the foreseeable future. London will have a decreasing lead role and will provide administrative support to the AE. Both entities will be displayed on the common website (www.ae-info.org) and will operate as a single functional unit under a common Board of trustees. Each will have to report separately to their own national regulatory bodies, as described in their statutes. Members of the Academia Europaea are _de facto,_ members of both legal forms of the AE. Resources will be allocated between each entity according to function and need. The Academia Europaea e.V Munich has its registered office at: Academia Europaea e.V. Room 336, 3rd floor Theresienstr. 41 80333 München GERMANY +49 89 2180 4294 ae-munich-hub@min.uni-muenchen.de 3 Amtsgericht München (Registration Number): VR 210134 Tax number: 143/210/03525 ## London General Secretariat Executive Secretary: Dr David Coates Senior Administrator: Ms Teresa McGovern Accounts and payroll: Outsourced to Keith Vaudrey & Co. Membership Secretary: Function partially provided by the Wroclaw Hub office Membership administration, database and website management are outsourced: Technical University of Graz. Contact is Ms Dana Kaiser The Executive Secretary is the Company Secretary, with responsibility for day-to-day operations of the AE and the London office; oversight of the regional hubs and the Bergen AE company and provides secretariat support to the Board and other subcommittees. The company and charity registered office is at Room 251, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street,. London, WC1E 7HU. ## Munich General Secretariat Director: Professor Donald Dingwell Manager: Ms Friederike Brandthaus The association registered office at Munich, is at Academia Europaea e.V.. Room 336, 3rd floor, Theresienstr. 41, 80333 München, GERMANY ## **Regional Knowledge Hubs (at the 31[st] December 2023)** **Barcelona Hub** (https://aebarcelona.eu/ ) Academic Director: Professor Jaume Bertranpetit Hub manager: Maite Sánchez Riera **Bergen Hub** (https://aebergen.w.uib.no/) Academic Director: Professor Eystein Jansen (trustee) Hub manager: Ms Kristen Bakken Communications: Mr Nils Olav Sæverås **Budapest Hub** https://mta.hu/aebudapest Academic Director: Professor Laszlo Lovasz Hub Manager: Dr Gergely Bohm Hub Officer: Nóra Deák: Hub Communications Officer: Katalin Borvölgyi, **Cardiff Hub** (www.aecardiffknowledgehub.wales/ ) Academic Director: Professor Ole Petersen (trustee). Hub Manager: Ms Louise Edwards Communications officer: Alice Sadler Executive Officer: Ms Juliet Davies Research Officer: Rafael Carrascosa Marzo **Graz Data Centre** . Responsible (under contract) for delivery, support, development and content management of the AE corporate website (www.ae-info.org ) and the membership database. The data centre team include: (Director) Professor Frank Kappe, Project Manager H. Leitner, M.Sc., Chief Programmer Mr R. Hoffmann and Main Editorial Management Ms Dana Kaiser M.A. **Tbilisi Hub (** https://www.aetbilisihub.org/ **)** Academic Director: Professor David Lordkipanidze Hub Executive Director: Ms Natia Khuluzauri Manager: Vakhtang Tsintsadze **Wroclaw Knowledge Hub** (https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/ ) Academic Director: Professor Arkadius Wøjs Hub manager: Anna Jarosz Hub officer: Veronica Lott 4 **Examiner of Accounts Principal Bankers Solicitors** Keith Vaudrey & Co Ltd. NatWest Bank Plc Hewitson Becke+Shaw Chartered Certified Accountants 250, Regent St. Shakespeare House 51, Marloes Road 42, Newmarket Road London W8 6LA London W1B 3BN Cambridge. CB5 8EP Note: The legal and administrative information in the report and financial statements forms a part of the t 5 ## **SECTION 2: The structure and mission of the Academia Europaea** ## **The Academia Europaea London[1]** On 23 September 2009: the Academia Europaea was incorporated as a Company limited by Guarantee and was registered at Companies House (number 07028223). See: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07028223 . The Company was also registered as a not-for-profit charity (registration number 1133902), see https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4048916 . ## **The Academia Europaea Munich** As of 20th September 2023, the trustees signed articles to establish a new AE Munich legal entity (Academia Europaea e.V - eingetragener Verein). Amtsgericht München (Registration Number): VR 210134. Tax number: 143/210/03525 ## **Governance and management** A single Board of Trustees manages the affairs of both legal entities of the Academia Europaea. There is an advisory Council and other operational sub-committees that are described in annex 1. Elections and appointments to the Board are as described in the regulations. These can also be found on the corporate website at www.ae-info.org. Members elect the officers of the Academia (President, Vice President(s) and Honorary Treasurer). Other trustees are co-opted directly by the Board. The Annual General Meeting of members confirms these appointments in accordance with the regulations. The Vice Presidents (ex officio) are recommended by the President and appointed by the Board of Trustees for a period as defined in the Regulations. ## **Training and induction of new trustees** New trustees are provided with a copy of the statutes and regulations, governance documents and access to sets of minutes of the past year(s). Trustees also receive copies of documents describing the role and responsibilities of Directors and Trustees and links to the appropriate UK Charity Commission and Company House websites and those relevant to the Munich legal entity. ## **The mission of the Academia Europaea** The Academia Europaea is an international, non-governmental association of individual scientists and scholars, who are experts and leaders in their own subject areas, as recognised by their peers. ## **The Academia will:** Promote European scholarship and research and increase the wider appreciation of its value and importance Make recommendations to national governments and international agencies concerning matters affecting science, scholarship and academic life in Europe. Encourage interdisciplinary and international research in all areas of learning, particularly in relation to European issues. Identify topics of trans-European importance to science and scholarship, and propose appropriate action to ensure that these issues are adequately studied. ## **The Academia will endeavour to:** Encourage the highest possible standards in scholarship, research and education. Promote a better understanding among the public at large of the benefits of knowledge and learning, and of scientific and scholarly issues, which affect society, its quality of life and its standards of living. ## **Charitable objectives:** The advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe. ## **SECTION** ## **3** The trustees would like to thank all of the organisations that have sustained the Academia through their generous general financial sponsorships in particular the authorities supporting the Academia Europaea Regional Knowledge Hubs. The trustees also thank those other foundations and organisations that have contributed to the running of specific events and activities of the Academia during the period of this report. These organisations are identified in various places within this report and in the separate accounts The 1 From 1988 to incorporation in 2009, the Academia Europaea operated under a Deed of Trust and was registered as a Charity with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (former registration number 1001978) 6 trustees have been active in their engagement in the affairs of the Academia and a majority have attended every meeting of the trustees. The trustees wish to express their gratitude to the elected officers of the Academy for their additional work on behalf of the membership. In particular, to thank Professor Don Dingwell for steering the creation of the new Munich AE legal entity, to Ole Petersen, for his continuing service and for his representing the AE in external project boards and meetings, including in the Horizon Europe SAPEA and SAPEA plus project and Alban Kellerbauer as Editor-in-chief of our international journal The European Review. The trustees would also like to thank Professor Erol Gelenbe for his role as chair of the new AE Artifical Imntelligence Task Force and Prof. Peter Wagner for his chairmanship of the Environment and Sustainability Task Force. The trustees again thank professor Lars Engwall for his chairmanship of the HERCuLES group and the Wenner Gren Fondations of Sweden, for supporting the annual international symposium series. In 2023, the AE operated a growing programme of real-time international events (conferences and workshops) and a programme of online activities (webinars and streamed events). Some of these are reported below and in more detail in the individual Hub annual reports. The Horizon 2020 funded SAPEA activity continued. The European Review continued to be published and generated royalty income (see below). The trustees are grateful to the six AE Regional Knowledge Hubs and their dedicated staff. The sponsors and hosts of these hubs have through their generosity, enabled the AE to deliver a much larger and more varied programme of activities both to the academic communities of their regions and also increasingly they are bringing science to the general public, thorough a range of public events, lectures and exhibitions targeted at their specific regional remits. These are reported on in the individual Hub annual reports. The Regional Hubs are independent of the AE corporate centre, but work in coordination wilt one another in delivering our charitable objectives across Europe. As a result of the 2023 activity, the trustees can report that the annual examined accounts for 2023 show an unrestricted funds reserve carried forward to 2024 of £4,266 compared to £96,286 for the year ended 31 December 2022. The restricted funds were £179,444 in the year ended 2023 and £291,445 in the comparative year. The trustees wish to record their thanks to the Technical University of Graz data centre staff for their dedicated I.T. and corporate web and database support and to Professor Balazs Gulyas for his management of the 2023 AE Erasmus Medal process. The Board would also like to thank Professor Gulyas for his work in establishing a new AE Class prize (for life sciences) the Sydney Brenner Prize. The first prize was awarded at the annual conference of 2023. The trustees are pleased to report, that in 2023, our inter organisational links were further strengthened with a number of European federation organisations (ALLEA, FEAM, EASAC eurocase and YASAS (The Association of European Young Academies). Cardiff and London have been responsible for delivery of AE SAPEA plus participatiojn throughout the year. The President and other trustees engaged in a number of specific activities that responded to policy issues across Europe and more widely. A thematic transdisciplinary AE task force on Environmental sustainability held its first substantive activity in summer 2023 un der the direction of Professor Peter Wagner. In addition, A new task force on Articicial Intelligence was set up under the coordination of Profesor Erol Gelenbe (Chair of the Informatics Section) and the Baord signed a new international collaboration agreement for the TEA-NET consortium [ ], under the coordination of Professor Peter Hegyi (Chair of the Clinical and Veterinary Sceinces Section). The AE played an active part in a number of European international associations, networks and initiatives as part of our objective to support excellence in European science and scholarship. One of these was the IYBSSD (The UN International Year of Basic Science for Development) Professor Eystein Jansen was the AE liaison, Each of the seven Regional Knowledge Hubs. has its own distinct mission and identity that respond to local and regional priorities. The tustees recognise the immense support provided by the sponsors for these Hubs. None of the hubs receives core financing from the centre for their dayto-day operations. This model helps to increase local responsiveness. The Cardiff Hub team took over the role of AE Corporate communicaitons coordination and a visuals refresh project was launched acrtoss all Hubs. The trustees, are pleased to report a further widening of the membership of the Academia Europaea with the election in 2023 of 320 scholars across a four classes. The full 2023-election list is at annex 1. Member statistics can be found on the AE website at ae-info.org . There has been a gradual improvement in gender balance members and a reduction in regional disparity in terms of disciplines over the year. This is in line with the targets as described in the strategic plan. However, the trustees will further address these issues in 2023 with a review of membership election and assessment policy to better meet CoARA[2] principles for the 2024 new member cycle. The trustees also continued to support the continuing development of the Young Academy of Europe, in recognition of the AE mission to promote young researchers. The AE has a membership of individuals that are drawn from the whole continent of Europe and Foreign members from beyond Europe. The majority of AE members are resident and working outside of the UK and the majority of these are based in EU member states. The trustees concluded, that following the completion of the BREXIT process, the risks to the continuation of the Academia as a UK registered and domiciled charity should beregualrly reviewed One significant driver was to ensure the continued AE eligibility to be a beneficiary in future EU funded research collaboration programmes. The situation was resolved in 2023 through the creation of a new independent legal entity (a not for profit association) in Munich, Germany. Over the coming years there will be a gradual transfer of functional responsibilities from London to Munich, including of appropriate financial resources. entities utilise the exisiting regualtions and policies and all members of the AE are de facto members of both entities. Steps will be taken to try to harmonise meetings of trustees and for the annual business meeting to meet the requirements of both entities in common. The intention, is that members will not see any difference in operations of the AE. Both enbtities share the same charitable objectives. Future annual reports to the UK charities Commission will describe the full range of activity carried out (for 2 CoARA. Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment 7 both entities). Financial reports will however not be consolidated and each entity will report to its respective national authorities separately as required. The Trustees wish to place on record, that it were their belief that at the time of the compilation of this report, there were no additional or unforeseen risks that would place the continuation of the charity in jeopardy. ## **Public benefit statement** Over the year the Academia and the Regional Knowledge Hubs, have published articles and papers in academic journals; organised a number of virtual and physical academic meetings across the continent that are open to members and non-members, young scholars and to the interested public in all areas of operation. The Academia has provided prizes and awards to support and recognise excellent researchers in pursuit of their scholarship. To enhance the accessibility of the European scholarly community to the public, the Academia has maintained and enhanced its web portal and those of the regional knowledge hubs and has contributed to the betterment of European Policy through participation in provision of expert, impartial advice to authorities and governmental organisations and has supported the Young Academy of Europe. A full description of all of the main activities is included elsewhere in this report. The trustees have consulted the guidance made by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on the Public Benefit requirement of the charities Act 2011. The Trustees are confident that they have complied with their duty under section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 in that they have had a due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Commission. ## **Future Plans** In the coming year (2024), the trustees will try to continue to deliver the mission of the Academia through the running of appropriate workshops, publications and related activities. The trustees will explore new opportunities, including an AE activity for environmental sustainability, Artificial intelligence, and collaborations with other international platforms. The AE will establish a pilot Academia Europaea College of Excellence and support the expansion of outreach through the network of regional Hubs, including consideration of new possible Hub locations. We will explore alternative models of financing. The Young Academy of Europe will continue to be supported, specifically to provide a focus to engage with and support young researchers from across the UK and Europe. The AE engagement in European Science policy advice will be strengthened through taking a lead on topics within the Science Advice Policy project SAPEA PLUS and any subsequent Horizon funded policy project. The trustees will especially focus on ensuring that its UK based membership and researchers more generally can continue to be effectively linked with their European colleagues. Following the establishing of the new Munich legal entity, resources will be transferred to assist with set-up and operation, including the re-allocation of administrative tasks from London. To assist in this, the London office and staffing resource will be scaled back. ## **SECTION 4: Centrally co-ordinated activities during the period, 1 January 2023 31 December 2023** ## **The 34th annual conference of members 09 11th October 2023** The conference of the Academia Europaea took place at LM University, Munich. Local organiser Professor Don Dingwell. ## This was a physical event with streaming ## Sessions included: On October 9[th] a dedicated one-day meeting for all four Class members - Life Sciences On October 9[th] there was a dedicated day for the Young Academy of Europe On 10[th] October, the AE **Erasmus Medal was awarded to Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux (France), who also gave the 2023 AE-Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus Lecture** **On 10[th] October the 2023 Adam Kondorosi Advanced Award for Plant Research was awarded to Professor Michael Udvardi (Australia)** **On 10[th] October, an inaugural Sydney Brenner prize for life sciences was awarded to Professor Eugene Yeo (USA) On 11[th] October, the 2023 Young Academy of Europe Andre Mischke prize was awarded to Renaud Jolivet** ## **October 10[th] - plenary session speakers included** ## **Helga Nowotny** , The illusion of control: Living with the digital Others - **Tim Crane** , Is artificial general intelligence possible? ## **Mona Simion** Fact checking and disinformation ## **Hans Joas** What comes after the Secularization thesis? Religious and Secular sources of moral universalism ## **Jürgen Kocka** Organised Capitalism and organised Science. Some German examples 8 ## **Stephan Parmentier** How to repair the irrepairable: Strategies and challenges for victim reparations after violent conflict and serious human rights violations ## **Dirk Inzé** Gene-edited crops are now a reality, but not in Europe ## **Marc Yeste** Contributions of semen to fertilisation and early embryo development: epigenome, proteome and metabolome - **Peter Hegyi** The global burden of translational medicine ## **October 11[th] pleanary speakers included** ## **Maté Csanád** Exploring the Big Bang in the lab with femtoscopy - **Kevin Heng** The atmosphere of exoplanets - **Dieter Braun** - Recreating the emergence of life in early rock environments - **Arnau Folch** - The destination Earth (DestinE) initiative: how it will contribute to forecast and manage natural hazards **Yan Lavallée** - Accessing magma: a frontier in Earth sciences and renewable energies - **Pascal Engel** Truth and Normativity **Aditi Lahiri** - **Horst Bredekamp** - From global art history to active matter - **PANEL discussion** : Healthy Food And sustainable agriculture: Exploring Transformative Practices **Scott Bremer** How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa- ----------------- ## **The Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal** **The 2022 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal was awarded to the renowned international Neuroscientist - Jean-Pierre Changeux, College de France, Paris** The 2023 Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus Lecture was delivered and streamed to AE members during the conference. The Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea is awarded on the recommendation of an independent search committee to a member who has maintained over a sustained period, the highest level of international scholarship and recognition by peers. **Erasmus Lecture title: The Brain as a chemical machine: importance of allosteric receptors** ## **ABSTRACT:** The human brain, the most complex organ of the body, cannot be simply regarded as an electrical machine or a mechanical computer. Understanding the chemistry of the brain is a prerequisite for the understanding if its basic functions - from the intercellular communications up to the higher cognitive level - together with their pathological alterations. The billions of neurons in the brain make discontinuous networks that are bound together by chemical signals: the neurotransmitters. There are over a hundred of neurotransmitters that mediate information processing in the brain, and thus, all the operations it performs. The discovery of the molecules and molecular mechanisms involved in the signal transduction elicited by neurotransmitters has thus created a n the brain, their possible side effects and among them drug addiction with its known devastating consequences at the social level, and, most of all, their potential therapeutic action. 9 At the early stages, a critical role was played by the concept of allostery to qualify the interaction between topographically distinct sites on regulatory proteins - ie an active site and a regulatory site - and its mediation by a conformational change of the molecule concept was extended to brain communications and the receptors for neurotransmitters (1964,1967). Then, the first neurotransmitter receptor was identified (1970): the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. It was soon demonstrated to be a bona fide allosteric protein carrying several binding sites for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, an ion channel, together with multiple allosteric modulatory sites. The elucidation, today at the atomic level, of the allosteric mechanism through which drugs modulate receptor efficacy opens revolutionary new avenues in the field of drug discovery. Moreover, the multiple regulations to which acetylcholine receptors have access together with thousands of subsequently discovered receptors in the brain tion to the short and long-term synaptic changes (ie those engaged in learning and memory), up to higher cognitive functions and - last but not least to conscious processing. The consequences in the understanding neuropsychiatric diseases and their therapeutics are immense. ## AFFILIATION: College de France and Institut Pasteur, Paris LINK TO WEBPAGE: See: https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Aghion_Philippe Plus: -Pierre_Changeux Jean-Pierre Changeux - Communications cellulaires Collège de France https://www.college-de-france.fr Citation: Jean-Pierre Changeux has been the leader in the field of receptor research and neuroscience for the past half a century. His thorough dissection of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors is a landmark in modern biology. The extension of the allosteric theory to membrane proteins provided a mechanistic explanation for the process of signal transduction by ligands. It has vast implications in several fields of biology, including receptor biology, cellular communications, drug design and development, and neuroscience. Due to his pioneering and seminal activities, Changeux is one of the key founders of modern molecular pharmacology and neuroscience. fundamental mechanism of protein regulation, the allostery model, with a profound impact on the biology of living organisms. He further proposed that allosteric regulation in membrane receptors plays a key role in the transmission of chemical signals in the nervous system. He hypothesized that the acetylcholine receptor could be envisioned as a membrane macromolecule in which the acetylcholine binding site regulates by an allosteric conformational change, the gating of an ion channel. His subsequent career strategically and comprehensively validated this pioneering insight, resulting in a series of important discoveries. pharmacology, and pathological modifications of chemical communications in the nervous system, including the subsequent molecular i receptor activity is controlled by allosteric mechanisms has been extended to G protein-coupled receptors and growth-factor receptors. It is now well-established that ligand binding induces an allosteric transition that activate or inhibit the G proteins or activate receptor tyrosine kinases. Subsequently, Changeux used his knowledge of the nicotinic receptors to investigate higher levels of brain organization, in particular the way these receptors participate in reward and cognition. Moving from the molecules and the isolated neurons or muscle cells to the development of neuronal networks, Jean-Pierre Changeux made an outreaching contribution by proposing the theory that long-term epigenesis of neuronal networks occurs by the selective stabilization and elimination of developing synapses. In parallel, he proposed, with his collaborators, theoretical models for defined cognitive tasks that bridge the gap between molecular biology and cognitive science. In these models, allosteric receptors play a key role in the regulation of synaptic efficacy. Changeux and his colleagues further proposed an original hypothesis describing a neuronal mechanism for conscious access, -scale horizontal network of reciprocally connected long axon pyramidal neurons. Finally, throughout his career, Jean-Pierre Changeux has been concerned by the ethical consequences of neuroscience for y reveals his status as a leading contemporary figure in neuroscience but also one of the leading thinkers of our times and a worthy contemporary heir of the French Encyclopaedists of the 18th century. Based on his distinguished scientific achievements, his contributions to European scientific culture and his commitment to Academia Europaea as one of its founding members (membership number: 63), Academia Europaea is pleased and honoured to award the 2022 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal to Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux. The committee therefore felt justifiably pleased to award the Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal to Professor Changeux , who continues to demonstrate the very best achievements in scholarship and excellence in his field. ## Short Bio: JEAN-PIERRE CHANGEUX is Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France & Pasteur Institute Paris. His main contributions and discoveries in the course of the past 50 years are centered on the general theme of receptors and their allosteric transitions, primarily in the nervous system with consequences ranging from the understanding of drug addiction to the therapeutics of neuropsychiatric diseases. JPC was trained at Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris) (1955) and Institut Pasteur (1959) and received a PhD at Paris University (1964); he was postdoctoral fellow, at Universiy of California, Berkeley, (1965-1966), visiting Assistant Professor at 10 Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New-York (1966-1967) ; Sous-Directeur, Collège de France, Paris (1967) ; Director of the Unit of Molecular Neurobiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1972-2006 ; Professor Collège de France, 1975-2006 ; Professor Institut Pasteur, 1975-2006, emeritus since 2007 ; Skaggs distinguished visiting professor in Pharmacology, University of California San Diego (2008-2012); International Faculty, Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind, University of California San Diego (20122022). JPC has authored or co-authored several books for a non-specialist audience notably, Neuronal Man: The Biology of The Mind in 1983/1985, Conversations on Mind Matter and Mathematics with the mathematician Alain Connes (1998), What Makes Us Think with the moral philosopher Paul Ricoeur (2002), Physiology of truth (2005),The Enchanted Neurons with the musical composers JeanPrize for Medicine 1993, the Balzan Prize 2001, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Neurosciences USA 2007, the Olav Thon international research award in biomedicine, Oslo, Norway, 2016, the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, Hong Kong, 2018 and Clarivate citation laureate in Physiology and Medicine for 2021. ## **The Erasmus lecture is sponsored by the:** Further information about the Heinz-Nixdorf Stiftung: http://www.heinz-nixdorf-stiftung.de ## **-------------------------------------** **The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea award for advanced research 2023** symbiosis and related fields that has changed our understanding and made a significant scientific impact . The awards consist of a diploma/medal and prize money. This prize was established in recognition of the significant achievements made in the field of plant and microbe interactions and symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the late Professor Adam Kondorosi. ## Members of the 2023 Award Committee: Jens Stougaard, ENFC president Eva Kondorosi, ENFC board Sharon Long, Stanford University Graham O´Hara, Murdoch University Klaus Palme, Academia Europaea Mart Saarma, Academia Europaea Luis M. Rubio, ENFC board (Chair of the committee) The 2023 Medal was awarded to **Professor Michael UDVARDI** ## **MEDAL CITATION** **Professor Michael Udvardi receives the Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research 2023 in recognition of the tremendous impact of his research on plant-microbe interactions and plant science and his generous service to the scientific community.** **AFFILIATION:** Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Australia **LINK TO WEBPAGE: https://qaafi.uq.edu.au/profile/10442/michael-udvardi https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Yz19c0oAAAAJ&hl=en** **Professor Udvardi delievred the 2023 Kondorosi Lecture** **TITLE OF PRESENTATION: Genetics and Genomics of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Past, Present and Future .** **ABSTRACT OF PRESENTATION:** Legumes contribute about 50 million tonnes of nitrogen, worth about $50 billion, to protein production and agricultural soils each year via symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) with bacteria called rhizobia. Over the past 50 years, this natural process has been overshadowed by industrial production and use of industrial fertilizers, now well over 120 million tonnes per year, which have become essential for food security but undermine environment and human health. Legumes offer a sustainable solution to food security without environmental harm, if only they were used more intensively in agricultural systems. To make them more attractive to producers, plant breeders are working to increase legume resistance to plant diseases, tolerance to drought, heat and other abiotic stresses, and yield and quality of the seed and biomass they produce. There are also opportunities to increase the 11 fraction of nitrogen that legumes obtain from the atmosphere versus the soil, via improvements in SNF. Over the past 20 years, genetic and genomic research has uncovered over 200 plant genes that are required for SNF, some of which I will describe in my presentation. At the same time, it has become clear that there is substantial natural variation in SNF effectiveness within plant species that could be harnessed via genome-enabled plant breeding to enhance this important process, as I will explain. In a world full of wicked, hard-to-solve problems, there is hope that we can solve the current nitrogen problem confronting humanity and planet earth. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Dr. Udvardi earned his Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from the Australian National University in 1989. He is primarily interested in how plants obtain nitrogen for growth and protein production, either as mineral nitrogen from the soil or from atmospheric di-nitrogen via symbiotic nitrogen fixation in bacteria. He has contributed to our understanding of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes, especially of transport and metabolism in root nodules, using biochemical, molecular, genetic, and genomic methods. He was amongst the first to characterize ammonium and nitrate transporters in plants. He was part of a large international team that sequenced and analyzed the genome of the model legume, Medicago truncatula. Currently, his group focusses on the development of pan-genomic resources to accelerate breeding of tropical pulses, including mungbean and pigeonpea. Dr. Udvardi has published over 200 papers in refereed scientific journals. He was Elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in 2012 for his contributions to our understanding of legume biology, especially symbiotic nitrogen fixation. ## **---------------------------------------** ## **The inaugural Sydney Brenner Prize for Personal achievent in Life Sciences 2023** This prize was established in 2022 under the direction of AE member Professor Balasz Gulyas (Chair of the Neurosciences and Physiology section). ## **The first award was presented in 2023 to Professor Eugene Yeo** The medal is given to honour the best in scholarship and personal achievements within a period of not more than 20 years after obtaining the PhD degree (with allowance for career breaks). The award is given to an individual scholar in the field of molecular biology and related disciplines. The Medal is awarded at the Annual Conference of the Academy and on that The Academia Europaea Sydney Brenner Medal was established to commemorate Sydney Brenner, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and one of the founding members of the Academia Europaea. ## **Citation:** Dr. Yeo is a computational and experimental molecular and cell biologist who has contributed to genomics, RNA biology and therapeutics. His primary research interest is in understanding how RNA processing is regulated and the roles that RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play in development and disease. Gene has authored >200 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 89 and i10-index 161) including invited book chapters and review articles in the areas of neurodegeneration, RNA processing, computational biology and stem RNA biology tend to feature comprehensive, systematic and robust methodologies developed by his lab, such as enhanced CLIP for the purposes of large-scale mapping of protein-RNA interactions (Van Nostrand et al, Nature Methods, 2016; >1000 citations). His lab has also developed the STAMP technology (Brannan et al, Nature Methods, 2021) which is the first transcriptome-wide method for identifying RNA binding protein sites and measuring mRNA translation at single-cell resolution and with isoformthms, such as CLIPper (Lovci et al, NSMB, 2013; >300 citations), SONAR (Brannan et al, Molecular Cell, 2016 and recently SKIPPER (Boyle et al, Cell Genomics, 2023). As a graduate student Dr. Yeo authored the MaxENT splice site algorithm (Yeo et al, Journal Comp Biology, 2003), which is arguably one of the most utilized and cited splice site scorers. Armed with these cutting-edge technologies, his lab is also a major contributor of resources to study RBPs that enable hundreds of labs across many areas of bioscience, such as the world -specific antibodies that facilitated generation and interpretation of the most comprehensive maps of RBP-binding sites to date for hundreds of RBPs (Van Nostrand et al, Nature, 2020; >500 citations). thms, such Dr. Yeo has also leveraged his understanding of how protein-RNA complexes control molecular and cellular pathways to develop RNA-targeting therapeutics and to identify RBPs as candidate targets for neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegeneration and cancer - and ALS/FTD to study how defects in RNA processing leads to pathological hallmarks as well as evaluate therapeutic paradigms developed in uncovered RBPs that condense into RNA granules during stress and demonstrated strategies to leverage these for therapeutic use in neurodegeneration (Markmiller et al, Cell, 2018; >600 citations; Fang et al, Neuron, 2019; Wheeler et al, Nature Methods, 2020). His lab also demonstrated in vivo RNA targeting with CRISPR/Cas proteins (Nelles et al, Cell, 2016;>500 citations) with proof of concept in repeat expansion disorders in mice and 3D brain organoid models (Batra et al, Cell, 2017; Batra et al, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2020; Morelli et al, Science Translational Medicine, 2022; Morelli et al, Nature Neuroscience 2022). Work from the Yeo lab h Discover magazine. These efforts have led to clinical programs to develop medicines for RNA-related diseases. General biography: See: https://www.yeolab.com 12 ## Short synopsis: Gene Yeo PhD MBA is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Chief Scientific Advisor for the Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicines, Director of the Stanford Stem Cell Institute Innovation Center, a founding member of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and member of the UCSD Stem Cell Program and Moores Cancer Center. Dr. Yeo has a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the UCSD Rady School of Management. Dr. Yeo serves as Co-Director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, as Associate Director of a Genetics T32 training program at UCSD and as Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla. Gene is on the Editorial Boards of the journals Cell Reports, Cell Research and eLife, and on the Advisory Board of Review commons. Gene joined UCSD as an Assistant Professor in 2008, was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in 2014 and to Professor in 2016. Gene was the inaugural Crick-Jacobs Fellow at the Salk Institute (2005-2008). Other awards include the Alfred P Sloan Fellowship in recognition of his work in computational molecular biology (2011), Alpha Chi Sigma-Zeta Chapter Krug Lecturer (2016), Singapore National Research Foundation Visiting Investigatorship Award (2017), the inaugural Early Career Award from the International RNA Society (2017), the Blavatnik National Award Finalist (2018 & 2019), San Diego Xconomy Awardee for 019) and Highly Cited Researcher in Crossinfluential researchers of the past decade. Gene is also a Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator (2020) and received the 2021 Elisa Izaurralde Award for Innovation in Research, Teaching and Service from the RNA Society. Gene is a co-founder of biotech companies which includes Locanabio, Eclipse Bioinnovations, Enzerna, Proteona (acquired by Singleron), Trotana Therapeutics and Orbital Therapeutics. Gene serves or had served on the scientific advisory boards of the Allen Institute of Immunology, Locanabio, Eclipse Bioinnovations, Proteona, CircBio, Aquinnah, Cell Applications, Tecan, LGC, Sardona Therapeutics, Insitro, Trotana, Nooma, Ribometrix, Automera, Atomic.AI, AmberBio and IntronX. Gene is among the top 50 life science academic current or previous support from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, TargetALS, ALS Foundation, Department of Defense, Myotonic Dystrophy Association, Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Takeda, Genentech and Roche. Gene is the faculty founder of DASL (Diversity and Science Lecture Series, 2020) providing a voice for scientists to discuss diversity, equity and inclusion challenges and celebrate their scientific achievements (now funded by CZI). Gene is the founder of the SCREEN (San Diego Covid-19 Research Enterprise Network, 2020) and founding member of the SEARCH (San Diego Epidemiology and Research for Covid Health, 2020) alliances in San Diego. SCREEN had ~1000 scientist members in San Diego focusing on grassroots research coordination and community outreach. SEARCH is focused on epidemiology studies of the prevalence of the virus completing a 12000-person study of viral spread. Gene helped found the EXCITE (Expedited Covid Identification Environment) lab that performs Covid high-throughput testing at UCSD and served as a member of the Return-toLearn steering committee at UCSD. Gene was a Sword of Honor recipient (the highest honor) in Officer Cadet School in 1999 and has served in the Singapore Navy as a Naval officer. Gene had completed 2 full Ironman-distance and multiple half-ironman-, olympic-, sprint-distance triathlons, full marathons and half-marathons, but now spends time rock climbing. ## **The 2023 Sydney Brenner Lecture:** ## Abstract: I will speak in general about our work in understanding how the myriad of proteins interact with RNA to modulate its metabolism, how defects in RNA processing cause human diseases and how we can leverage our knowledge of RNA biology to create new therapeutics. ------------------------------------------------ ## **2023 Class meetings** As a part of the annual conferences programme, the four Classes each held a Class event on 09[th] October to welcome the new members elected in 2022. The four Classes each followed a similar format. This included A presentation and welcome to the AE by the Class Chair followed by a selection of new member presentations representing each Section and round table discussion sessions. ----------------------------------------------- ## **Reports from the Class Chairs for 2023** **Class A1 Humanities Chair Professor Poul Holm (Dublin):** The Class had positive interaction with representatives of the International Union of Academies which has resulted in plans for a joint meeting on cultural heritage research in connection weith the AE annual meeting in Wroclaw 9 2024). Class A1 representatives participated in the TFESC (Environmental Sustainability) task force meeting in CArmbridge in September and in the ongoing activities of the task **Class A2 Social and Related Sciences Chair Professor Bjorn Wittrock (Uppsala):** In 2023, the new structure of sections of Class A 2 was coming into its own. In the autumn, one small but important change was undertaken in connexion with force. 13 the election of a new Chair of the section on Governance, Institutions and Policies (section 9) Thus, it was decided that the outstanding strength of the section (and its predecessor) in the field of higher education studies should be maintained. Thereby the section is also honouring its decisive role in the creation of the HERCULES group. However, there is a clear need to drop the subtitle of the section, delimiting its focus to welfare, health and education. Consequently, the overall role of studies of governance and policies has been strengthened, which is also reflected in the composition of the new section committee. In 2023, Class A2 had the second highest number of nominations ever, making it part of a sequence of four years that jointly have seen more nominations than any previous period. Members of the Class have significantly contributed to the Academy as a whole. force on environment, climate and sustainability. Both the Chair (Peter Wagner, Chair of the Section on Social Change and Social Thought, section 12) and the Vice-Chair (Phoebe Koundouri, member of the Economics section, section 8) of the Task force come from Class A2. The Chairs of section 10 (Maria Paradiso, Human Mobility, Governance, Environment and Space) and of section 11 (Nina Dethloff, Law) have served as members of the Governing Boards of the International Science Council and of the Scientific Commission of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) respectively. Another member of the Law section, Rianne Letschert, is Chair of the Steering Board of CoARA, while a member of the Economics section, Carlo Carraro, is Vice-Chair at IPCC. Both of them are active members of the Class with whom I have been in contact. The Chair of the Class was a member of the planning committee for the AE Annual Conference at the LMU in Munich, at which a record number of members participated in the Class event. He also served as Chair of the Jury for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the Fallings Walls Awards. ## **Class B Exact Sciences Chair Professor Paolo Papale (Rome)** no report **Class C Life Sciences - Chair Professor Eva Kondorosi (Budapest):** Two members of Class C, Ray Dixon (BMB) and Jane Hill (OEB), a representative of the core management team of the Task Force for Environment, Sustainability, and Climate (TFESC), attended a workshop held in Cambridge from 22-22[nd] September 2023, with the objective of identifying transformative actions and best practices to promote sustainable agriculture and healthy food systems in Europe. _The workshop led to a draft concept note suggesting the creation of an intergovernmental panel on food security and sustainability._ The AE CLASS C Clinicalk and veterinary Sciences 1.) organized monthly meetings and initiated the processing of pan-European data from the EUROSTAT database. We already have an accepted paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38627107/). - 2) We established the TEA-NET to enhance intercontinental research collaborations (https://www.ae info.org/ae/Acad_Main/News2_Archive/Translational%20European-Asian%20Network). 3) Additionally, we launched the Science to Society program, with the first step being the creation of an AE guideline on how - researchers can facilitate the practical application of their research findings. (https://www2.ae info.org/ae/Acad_Main/News2_Archive/Developing%20a%20Guideline%20for%20Effective%20Policy%20Impact). The Organismic and evolutionary biology section changed its name to Ecology and evolution section. This name better covers the main interest of our members. Prof José María Fernández-Palacios joined the section committee to strengthen our work. ## **------------------------------------------** ## **SECTION 5: Academia Europaea outreach** . ## **The Academia Europaea Regional Knowledge Hubs** Each Hub operates as an independent entity with local hosts and sponsors. Each Hub organises and delivers their own programmes of activity and assists the London HQ, where needed. The Hubs each have a complimentary thematic mission that provides a widerange of activities delivering a wider public benefit that is in line with our charitable objectives. These activities are described in the individual Hub reports ( **see annexes** ). **AE engagement in European research policy and scientific expert advice to policymakers for general public policy (science into policy)** **SAPEA Scientific Advice for general European Policy (not policy for research)** 14 ## **SAPEA: Science Advice for Policy by European Academies** - Spanning the disciplines of engineering, humanities, medicine, natural sciences and social sciences, **SAPEA** brings together the outstanding knowledge and expertise of Fellows from over 100 Academies, Young Academies and Learned Societies in more than 40 countries across Europe SAPEA is part of the European Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) which provides independent, interdisciplinary and evidence-based scientific advice on policy issues to the European Commission, working closely with the SAM High Level Group of Scientific Advisors to the end of April 2024 = country with at least one Academy the wider public, providing an unbiased, balanced and transparent perspective. Academies within SAPEA are members of one or more of the European Academy Networks: Academia Europaea, ALLEA, EASAC, Euro-CASE, FEAM and the Young Academies Association (YASAS). All across Europe are part of SAPEA and are encouraged to participate actively. Opportunities for involvement include: ## **suggesting scientific topics communicating their latest major scientific outputs to SAPEA** - **nominating Fellows** to the SAPEA Working Groups, workshops or stakeholder meetings) ## **hosting Working Group meetings** - direct costs can be covered - for a selected scientific topic ## **hosting outreach events** - event support can be provided - **raising the visibility of Academy work at a European Level** by sharing news of activities with the SAPEA Communications Office for the project website ## **AE engagement in SAPEA Plus and providing expertise to public institutions and administrations at European Level** The Horizon2020 funded project contract with the European Commission has been extended to 2024.The President is a member of the Board of Management of the project. Prof. Ole Petersen (Academic Director of the Cardiff Hub and VP ex O) was the alternate and oversees the work of the AE SAPEA Science Policy Officer - Louise Edwards, who is based at the Cardiff Hub. Louise is responsible for the day-to-day management of any AE involvement in policy advice topic work and is a member of the project coordination team. The AE Executive Secretary acts as AE contract manager in liaison with the central project coordination team. The day-to-day engagement in SAPEA is undertaken by the Science Policy team at the Cardiff Knowledge Hub. In 2023, the Cardiff Hub team managed the Academia Europaea activity within the SAPEA consortium project and is the AE lead in the successor SAPEA Plus project. AE Cardiff has undertaken literature reviews on behalf of the consortium and on behalf of the European Commission. 15 Full information for the project and its outputs, can be found via the official SAPEA website (https://sapea.info/) and through both the ae-info website [http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Activities/SAPEA] and the Cardiff Hub website [http://aecardiffknowledgehub.wales/ Our intention throughout the SAPEA project is to work with and through the regional knowledge Hubs and with the Young Academy of Europe to ensure maximum opportunity for involvement of our members. We will also establish an outreach forum of other panEuropean organisations to improve linkages and engagement of non-core partner expertise and seek to engage (though our Cardiff Hub) scholars (members and non-members) as experts from the UK and Ireland. ## **European Science Advisory Council (EASAC)** . Formed by a number of European Academies and supported by the Academia Europaea provides EU institutions and other pannational bodies with fully independent advice on the scientific aspects of public policy. The Academia was a founding member of this Council and collaborates with our sister Academies in making available groups that are established. The Academia provides a financial contribution to the running of the secretariat of EASAC. The Academia covers the costs of participation of the AE Council member and AE experts participating in specific study panels [ **http://www.easac.eu/** ]. The AE supports a number of members, who provide their individual expertise to EASAC studies and/or are engaged in the standing committees of EASAC. Professor Don Dingwell (trustee and VP ex o) is the AE delegate to the EASAC governing Council. The list of publications and reports can be found via the website above. **EASSH (The European Alliance of Social Sciences and Humanities)** . The Academia Europaea is a member of this alliance through our two Class chairs Professor Poul Holm and Professor Bjorn Wittrock. The association seeks to promote and safeguard the position and status of the Social sciences and Humanitieis within the European Research area. Its activities can be found at this URL: https://eassh.eu/ ## **AE Publications** ## **The Academia Europaea in conjunction with Cambridge University Press publishes an international peer reviewed journal.** **The European Review 2023** (volume 31). The Editor-in-chief Professor Alban Kellerbauer (Nuclear Physics, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany). The journal has seen a significant increase in uncommissioned papers submitted for review and publication, from across the world. In 2023, the European Review (ERW) volume 31 had six issues and one open access supplement. AE members had free access to the online version of the journal and to the archive. The Editor-in-chief renewed the editorial Board to include members of the Young Academy of Europe. Negotiations were completed to a transfer agreement so that from 2025 the ERW would be completely open access. An Open Access supplement Ocotber 2023 : European Review , Volume 30 , Supplement S1 , November 2022 , pp. f1 - f3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798722000473 ## Title: **Intermediality** ERW at Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review **Biology Direct:** a publication (now affiliated with the AE) at the initiative of Professor Alex Verkhratsky (former Chair of Class C Life Sciences). Published by Springer Nature - https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/ ------------------------------- **AE -** **ublications** . In addition to regularcorporate e-newsletters [produced on behalf of the AE HQ by the Communications group at the Cardiff Hub] and separately all of the Regional Knowledge Hubs, the AE maintained its corporate website which is managed and hosted at the technical University of Graz under a service contract. The Regional Knowledge Hubs maintain their own websites to reflect their own, independent programmes of activity. 16 ---------------------------------------- ## **SECTION 6: 2023 Events and Activity provided with AE sponsorship including projects funded through the Hubert Curien Fund, or externally organised but with with AE patronage in 2023, or externally sponsored.** ## **Report from the AE Artificial Intelligence task force: Chaired by Professor Erol Gelenbe (Chair of the Informatics Section)** ## Introduction: In 2023, the Academia Europaea (AE) Board decided he creation of an interdisciplinary Working Group on AI which aims to produce a report with a summary list of recommendations for the European academic milieu and funding agencies, so that they may take the best advantage of recent developments in AI for the benefit of research and education throughout Europe. In the meanwhile, the Chair of the TFAI also serves in representing AE ton AI for the forthcoming G20 2024 meeting in Brasilia. Members of the AE TFAI: · Erol Gelenbe MAE, Co-Chair (PL), Chair of the AI Task Force Academia Europaea, Institute of Theoretical & Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences - Véronique Halloin, Fellow of the Royal Acad. of Belgium, Co-Chair (BE), Secretary General of the Belgian National Research - Fund, Member of the CERN Council, President of the European Science Foundation - Guy Brasseur MAE, Max Planck Institute for Climate Change, Hamburg - Schahram Dustdar MAE, Vienna Technical University, President of the Asia Pacific Association for AI - Thomas Eitner MAE, Vienna Technical University, Austrian Academy of Sciences, - Prof Alessandro Lenci, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pisa - Several members of the TFAI make regular presentations about AI. Specifically, - Prof Dustdar presented and will present keynotes related to AI at the following international conferences (and other events): - IDEAS on 5th May, 2023; ICWE June 6, 2023; Baltic DB&IS on June 30, 2024. - Prof Gelenbe presented and will present keynotes related to to mathematical models for AI, and AI & Cybersecurity at the following international conferences (and other events): IEEE TrustCom in Exeter, UK, on November 3, 2023; the IEEE CENTERS SinConf 2023 on 20th November 2023 in Porto, the 16th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, November 23, 2023 Online; the 2024 IEEE Cybermatics Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 2024. He is presenting the Academia Europaea position on AI at S20 the Science Advisory for the G20 Conference in Brasilia. 1) The TFAI plans to deliver a Report by October 2024, based on its activities, and in particular on the Workshop that will be held on September 4-5, 2024 at Imperial College on « Challenges of AI for European Research and Academia » ## 2) Brief Overview of the Contents and Conclusions of the Report The European Union has so far prioritized the development of AI mainly through funding for R&D in its research programs, and by instituting a regulatory framework, the EU AI Act, that aims to ensure the safety of the AI systems that are developed, deployed and used, which is a first and perfectible step in regulating AI in the EU Single Market. In addition, several EU countries have created national programs for research and education in AI, and facilitated the access to venture capital in this field. The EU countries have thus recognized that AI is a key area towards sustainable re-industrialization and societal development. However, throughout our continent there is a widespread desire to establish a balance in favor of an explainable, transparent, accountable and human-centric AI, while supporting the potential economic and productivity gains that AI innovations bring, including in business, science and the dissemination of knowledge. Thus the EU AI Act can help prevent the social upheavals and legal conflicts resulting from the rapid and uncontrolled dissemination of AI innovation, for instance due to AI techniques that do not integrate the need for fairness, diversity, data privacy and the protection of creative and intellectual property. Similarly, we need to consider the impact that AI has on our education, work and skills. The additional electrical energy needs for training and using AI algorithms is also of concern. AI algorithms must also be compared and tested with calibrated anonymized open data that is widely available to the technical and scientific community. While many Europeans understand that AI is an instance of advanced contemporary general purpose technology, the scientific and business community, citizens and policymakers, must clearly understand its potential role, advantages, limitations and consequences for science, education, business, health, social organization and security. An important concern is the ease with which AI helps the creation of fakes, whether it is for political purposes, misleading commercial information, or by imitating and plagiarizing the human creative process. Thus, all citizens and end users must be able to make informed decisions about the usage of AI. We are at a key moment to shape the course of AI in science, with a significant increase in AI-related research and publications across most disciplines. Successful applications include protein structure prediction by AlphaFold, new antibiotics, the opportunity to develop treatments for diseases via data driven optimization offered by AI, highly accurate computer vision, the automation of manufacturing and supply chains, the automation of difficult medical procedures such as surgery, improved weather and even climate change forecasting through AI-driven models, the synthesis of hitherto unknown materials which optimize certain desirable properties, the automation of security including cyberattacks where detection and mitigation must take place within milliseconds. While all these aspects are positive contributions of AI, it is already used to create very sophisticated cyberattacks, and the elimination of the human in the loop is a legitimate and significant concern in many decision processes, including for security and national defense. To address these concerns, attain the needed scientific goals and share worldwide the world-leading knowledge about AI and its uses, Europe will need to build a world-class AI research and dissemination organization, whose capacity could be organized and shared jointly with our partners worldwide, as is currently done through successful organizations such as CERN. ## 3) Workshop Details Venue: CNRS Abraham de Moivre Mathematics Laboratory, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK Sponsors: Academia Europaea & The CNRS Abraham de Moivre Mathematics Laboratory, Imperial College London 17 ## Co-Sponsor: Foundation for Science and Technology, UK Workshop Organizing Committee: Prof Dan Crisan, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London, Prof Erol Gelenbe, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Dr Federica Pratola, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London ## Tentative Schedule Introductory remarks by Workshop Co-Chairs: Prof Erol Gelenbe, Prof Veronique Halloin, and Prof Dan Crisan on behalf of the CNRS Abraham de Moivre Laboratory, Imperial College Keynotes: · Prof Eric Xing, President, Mohammed Ben Zayed University of AI (Abu Dhabi) & Carnegie Mellon University, « Title TBD » · - AI Methods · · - darmstadt.de · · · · anna.korhonen@gmail.com, (Sep 5) · · Brain Modelling · Dr Samuel Laurent· AI in Healthcare · Prof Bernard Macq, Univ. of Louvain, « Coalition Learning for Healthcare» · · -james-cole AI in Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy · · -empowered Trust and TrustAI in Engineering · · · · · Prof Eiman Kanjo, Nottingham Trent University and Imperial College, · -mail: gwang@coovally.com ## **Report from the AE Task Force on Environment, Sustainability, and Climate (TFESC): Chaired by Professor Peter Wagner (Barcelona)** The AE Board of Trustees established the TFESC as a permanent AE activity early in 2023 after in the preceding year a preliminary Task Force: had organized an online survey among AE members about their views about possible AE engagement in this thematic area; had presented the findings of this survey at the Building Bridges conference in Barcelona in October 2022; and had solicited further expressions of interest from participants in this presentation. The insights gathered from these investigations form the background of the TF activity. ## Composition: The Task Force is composed of ten members; eight being members of AE covering all AE classes and two members of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE). The current composition is as follows (for changes during 2023 see below): - Helena Bilandzic (communication and media studies, Germany) - Scott Bremer (climate adaptation governance, Norway, YAE) - Stephen Evans (engineering, United Kingdom) - Poul Holm (history, Ireland) - Jane Hill (ecology, United Kingdom) - Eystein Jansen (paleoclimatology, Norway) - Phoebe Koundouri (economics, Greece), co-chair - Nebojsa Nakicenovic (technological and social change, Austria) - Katalin Solymosi (plant biology, Hungary, YAE) - Peter Wagner (social theory and historical sociology, Spain), chair ## The core activity: Knowledge bases and transformative practices with regard to food security and sustainability 18 A key concern shared by many respondents to our surveys is what is known as the gap between knowledge and action in environmental matters and the communication between scientists, policy-makers and the public. For its first core activity, therefore, the Task Force decided to focus on - in short - the science-policy-public interface as a key topic for investigation and action. Beyond being crucial for effective environmental action, this topic also permits to use the core characteristics of AE, namely the broad interdisciplinary expertise and the coverage of all Europe. After extended discussion, furthermore, the Task Force elected to focus on food security and sustainability as the substantive topic through which to move from environmental knowledge to transformative practices. Against this background, a main activity of TFESC during 2023 has been the organization of a workshop on Healthy food and sustainable agriculture, held at the University of Cambridge from 20-22 September 2023. Based on an assessment of the available knowledge, on which several reports have just appeared, the aim of the workshop was to identify practices which are levers, points of intervention with a high transformative potential. As conceptualized in this approach, transformative practices are based on knowledge about earth systems and social systems, they include knowledge about issues of governance and a normative dimension, as in law and religion, they take a long-term and international comparative approach, and are aware of the mediatization of society, and the resulting communication challenges, and create narratives rather than mere facts. To actually bring the knowledge to fruition, they use techno-social problem-solving capacities, including economic capacities. Summarizing the results of the workshop, three accomplishments can be highlighted: - The workshop provided a means for AE members to actively engage in AE activities on themes of an inter-disciplinary nature and of key current significance and urgency. This was much appreciated. - The workshop showed a way for AE to move beyond scholarly exchange and evidence reports provided at request towards exploring and proposing transformative practices on selected themes of an inter-disciplinary nature and of key current significance and urgency. The workshop confirmed the view of the TF that this is a useful and even necessary move. - With regard to the selected theme, Healthy Food and Sustainable Agriculture, the workshop was able to concretely design possible transformative practices. The key proposal was for AE to engage in, and champion, the creation of an Intergovernmental Panel on Food Security and Sustainability (IPFSS), inspired by and building on the experiences with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It was hypothesized that the Human Trophic Level, closely related to meat consumption, could serve as an indicator and focus global policy debate on food security and sustainability in a way similar to the IPCC focus on the limitation of global warming, expressed in temperature increase since the onset of industrialization. Further proposals for transformative practices focussed on strategies of science communication and on the elaboration of scenario analyses for the issue of food and agriculture. These proposals were meant to be aligned with the IPFSS proposal. The workshop results were presented in a plenary session of the Building Bridges conference in Munich on 11 October 2023 and were received with great interest and support. In parallel, a concept note on the IPFSS proposal was submitted to and approved by the AE Board of Trustees. After approval by the Board and positive reception at Building Bridges, those TFESC members present in Munich held a meeting in which it was agreed to set up working groups to further advance the proposal for creating an Intergovernmental Panel on Food Security and Sustainability (IPFSS) and for the work of TFESC overall. In this initial debate, working groups were designed to explore: - the history of the creation of previous intergovernmental panels, in particular the IPBES but also the IPCC with a view to learning from those experiences; - the main features of the Human Trophic Level and its usefulness as well as limitations as an action-guiding indicator for - food security and sustainability; - options for funding of future TFESC activities; - details of the future communication strategy. In the course of further explorations, additionally, the need emerged for gaining a more comprehensive overview of related initiatives and, where appropriate, to establish contact with relevant such activities. At the subsequent full meeting of TFESC on 30 November 2023, therefore, it was agreed to pursue work on this overview as well as to start the exploration on the first two above-mentioned topics. The aim was to be able to arrive at an analysis of the state of debate that is sufficient to concretize further steps early in 2024. Timewise, the report on this core activity during 2023 would end here. Given the intense work since the November meeting, though, we can and should report on further insights, not least because they entailed some change of direction, in two main respects. First, even though the Human Trophic Level is already used as a partial indicator in the pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, it emerged that it is not suitable as a key orientation for an IPFSS, due to the complexity of the issue. From the beginning, second, a main question was in how far the proposed IPFSS could complement and accentuate existing global sciencepolicy interaction on food security and sustainability. It was envisaged that the IPFSS could provide a focus and sharpen global public debate in communication and coordination with existing permanent organisations, as in this case most centrally the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as well as with research centres. Our explorations determined that there was ongoing and quite contested debate between various actors about the usefulness and orientation of an IP Food and that a non- governmental International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (iPES Food) is already quite active across several world-regions. Against this background, the Task Force concluded that the proposal for an IPFSS risked to have a counter-productive effect on current debate. It will continue by other means to enhance global public knowledge and awareness on the urgent issue of food security and sustainability (on which more detail below). Publications: 19 Upon invitation of the editor of European Review in follow-up of the panel presentation at Munich Building Bridges, the Task Force is preparing a special section of the journal under the preliminary title "Food security and sustainability: towards global coordinated action". Authored by members of the Task Force in varying combinations, the issue proposal currently consists of three articles, with tentative titles as follows: - Food systems policy and research initiatives an overview - Communicating the sustainability of food and food systems to consumers: the challenge of the double jeopardy - - Knowledge shaping action: the shifting framing of climate change through IPCC, COP, and the media Further activities in 2023: TFESC supported the conference The Anthropocene: from boundaries to bonds: interdisciplinary crossovers in knowledge 19-20 October 2023. Scott Bremer presented the work of TFESC at the conference. Further initiatives: The Task Force, with the AE Munich Knowledge Hub as legal entity, is a partner in the project "Models, data and innovative approaches to enhance meat and dairy safety in a changing climate" (MEADsafe), of which the Athena Research and Innovation Center is the lead coordinator and which has been submitted for funding to Horizon Europe. The Task Force is currently discussing a submission to the call "Science Missions for Sustainability" by the International Science Council (submission date for expressions of interest in pilot projects 31 May 2024). Mode of operation: At the moment of its constitution as a permanent AE activity, the Task Force was composed of nine members rather than the envisaged ten, with Verena Winiwarter (AE section history and archaeology, Austria) as chair. For health reasons, Verena Winiwarter resigned from the position as chair and later as member of the Task Force as well. The Task Force elected Peter Wagner as new chair and completed its membership by inviting Helena Bilandzic (AE section Film, Media, and Visual Studies) and Phoebe Koundouri (AE section Economics, Business, and Management Sciences) to join its activities, both of whom kindly accepted. Phoebe Koundouri was also elected as co-chair. The Task Force was initially supported by the AE Bergen Knowledge Hub and a budget of particular the workshop at the University of Cambridge. The Task Force has received administrative support from the AE Cardiff Knowledge Hub (Juliet Davies); any expenses are currently directly paid by AEHQ in London from the allocated budget. For the TFESC: Peter Wagner Barcelona, 14 May 2024 ## **The AE HERCuLES group (Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Societies)** Under the Chairmanship of Professor Lars Engwall, the HERCuLES group co-organised with the sponsorship and support of the Wenner Gren Fondations (Sweden) an international symposium: **"Publishing in Academia: Digital Challenges"** . This was held at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm, May 10-12, 2023. The group also held its annual business meeting. The symposium will be published as an open access supplement in the European Review in 2024. ## **Symposium programme organisers were: HERCuLES members - Marcel Swart** **Objective:** Modern information technology has provided opportunities for a faster dissemination of information, including the presentation of research results and data from scientific projects. In this way, there are today unprecedented opportunities for an open science. Any information is possible to upload when a researcher finds it appropriate to do so. In this situation, a consortium of major national research agencies and funders from twelve European countries launched the initiative Plan S requiring by 2020 researchers who benefit from public funding to publish their work in open repositories or in journals that are available to all. In principle, the idea behind Plan S is very logical: the outcome of publicly funded research should be regarded public property. However, in practice it is associated with both opportunities and challenges. At the same time as the ease of publication implies prospects for faster and wider diffusion of research result, it may lead to quality problems. It also appears that the publishing industry is taking advantage of the project by means of profitable payment models. This in turn has implications for the role of libraries and the economic conditions of universities. Above all, there are indications that the digitalization of academic publishing has repercussions for early and mid-career researchers. Against this backdrop, the symposium will include sessions with expert presentations, followed by discussion, on recent developments in the publishing industry, the role of libraries, repercussions for researchers at different stages of their career and quality assessments. 20 **Programme speakers included:** **KeyJohan Rooryck, MAE, Open Access Champion** ## _**Wednesday May 10[th]**_ ## **Session 1: The Publishing Industry** Chris Graf, Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE and Springer Nature Dominic Mitchell, Operations Manager, Directory of Open Access Journals Masja Horn, Brill Publishing ## **Session 2: The Role of Libraries** Lars Burman, Chief Librarian of Uppsala University ## _**Thursday May 11**_ Session 3: Repercussions for Early Career Researchers Marina Rantanen Modeer, Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association Scott Bremer, Representative of the Young Academy of Europe Pil Maria Saugmann, Eurodoc Secretariat Coordinator ## **Session 4: Repercussions for Senior Researchers** Peter Scott Stefan Helgesson, Professor of English, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Christine Musselin, Professor of Sociology, SciencePo, Paris, France ## **Session 5: East European Countries** George Sharvashidze, Former Rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Georgia, Former Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Liviu Papadima, Dean of Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest ## **Session 6: Beyond Europe** Abel Packer, SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library OnLine), a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publisher for open access journals for Latin America and Caribbean. Chengzhou He, Dean of Arts, Nanjing University. Osman Aldirdiri, Director at FORCE 11 (The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship) and Executive Committee Member at SPARC Africa (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Africa). ## _**Friday May 12**_ ## **Session 7: Quality Assessment of OA publishing** Sven Stafström, Former Director General, the Swedish Research Council Sierd Cloetingh, Past President Academia Europaea, Vice President ERC Charlotte Wien, Director of Research, University Library of Southern Denmark ## Session 8: Financial Consequences for Universities Astrid Söderbergh-Widding, Rector of Stockholm University, Sweden Bjørn Stensaker, Vice-Rector of University of Oslo, Norway ## **Concluding Panel** ## **Chair: Lars Engwall** Alban Kellerbauer, Editor of the European Review, Scientific officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany Katalin Solymosi, Vice-Chair of the Young Academy of Europe, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. -Fuchs, AE Board Member, Professor of Linguistics, University of Zagreb, Former Croatian Minister of Science and Technology ## **Other Hubert Curien grant funded initiatives (member and/or Hub initiated) in 2023** **The Anthropocene- from Boundaries to Bonds.** Interdisciplinary crossovers in Knowledge development (19-20 Ocotber 2023): held in collaboration with the AE Wroclaw Knowledge Hub. Convened by professor LArw Walloe (former AE President) in collaboration with the Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre Prof Dorota Kolodziejczyk MAE 21 11 -12 October 2023 - **Writing Transcultural Literary History in a Globalised World** . -sponsorship with the Swedish Collegium fro Advanced Study and the Kungliche Humanistika Vetenskaps-Samfundet I Uppsala. To be published in the European Review in 2024. -sponsorship **Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology** 2023. June 22 23. Organised through the Wroclaw Knowledge Hub by prof. Andrzej Grzybowski See: https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/Past_Events/2011-present for the full list of all AE linked events In addition to the events listed above. The Board approved the establishing of a new international collaboration research network (TEA NET) The AE Translational Medicine Working Group (TMWG) network. It started its work on 1 January 2023. Its primary objective is to process, analyze, and interpret high-quality macro and micro data collected in the field of biomedical sciences with full European coverage. TMWG and training of talented research and clinical scientists dedicated to translational medicine are strongly promoted within AE, which is coordinated by the AE Clinical and Veterinary Section under the overall direction of Profesor Peter Hegyi (Academic Director of the AE Budapest Knowledge Hub). The **European partners** of the TEA NET will be Semmelweis University and the National Biomedical Foundation. **The Asian partners** will be the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in Hong Kong (coordinating site), and its collaborating or affiliated institutions in Shenzhen, including the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies [SIAT], CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute [SZRI], and CUHK Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Futian) [FITRI] at this stage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## **SECTION 7: Corporate, Hubs and membership** ## **2023 New members elected** Onn J28th April 2023, the trustees (via zoom) approved the recommendation of the Classes and elected new members as follows: Class A1 (Humanities) 67 new members; Class A2 (Social and Related Sciences) 55 new members; Class B (Natural Sciences) 80 new members and Class C (Life Sciences) 140 new members. A full list of 2023 new members, allocated by Class and Section is at Annex 1. The Class chairs responsible for oversight of the nominations process in 2023 were: Class A1 Humanities and Arts Sections A1-A6 [Chair Professor Poul Holm (Trustee)] Class A2 Social and related sciences Sections A7 A10 [Chair Prof Bjorn Wittrock (Trustee)] Class B Exact and Natural Sciences Sections B1 ~~B~~ 5 [Professor Paolo Papale (Trustee)] Class C Life Sciences Sections C1 C5 [Professor Eva Kondorosi (Trustee)] ---------------------------------------- ## **Communications** The Hubs and HQ (via the Cardiff Hub Communications team) issued regular electronic newsletters throughout the year. The Graz Data centre maintained the ae-info.org website and both Graz and Wroclaw ensured that member data was updated, including for the new members elected in 2023. All new members were notified of the AE GDPR policy and members were asked to opt-in to that policy at the time of their election. Newsletters are archived on the ae-info website at: ## **Governance meetings held in 2023** ## **The Trustees, Council and their subcommittees** The Board of Trustees met to transact business virtually on 5 occasions throughout the year and in a physical Board meeting on 16[th] January and 8[th] October. All meetings were quorate. Minutes were filed. A physical/virtual hybrid AGM took place on 9th October in Munich Individual (virtual) Class meetings (of Section chairs) took place to decide on recommendations for election of new members. ---------------------------------------- ## **35th Annual Business Meeting 2023 (AGM) Munich 9th October held at 17:00 19:00 (CET)** This was a hybrid meeting. The President Marja Makarow chaired the AGM. There were forty-eight physical delegates and forty-six virtual delegates present 22 ## **A number of electronic member-wide ballots had taken place in advance of the AGM (20 30 September. The results were reported to all members at the AGM.** **Motion to adopt the examined accounts for the year ending 31 December 2022 - adopted Motion to adopt the trustees (activity report) for the year ending 31 December 2022 - adopted Motion to re-appoint the auditors (examiners) - approved Motion to set the level of membership fees for the year 2024 - approved** ## **Large majorities had approved all motions.** The President, Professor Marja Makarow welcomed members to Munich and thanked the local organisers (Professor Don Dingwell and Dr Friederike Brandthaus). The announcement of the AGM had been published on the AE website and made known to all members by E-newsletter more than 21 days in advance. A series of online ballots had been announced and taken (between 20 30 September) on specific items of business (adoption of the annual accounts, annual activity report, re-appointment of examiners and recommended membership subscriptions for 2024). The draft agenda and all papers associated to the AGM were available on the website in advance and had been tabled for delegates in the room. No motions or resolutions from the membership had been received in advance, as set out in the notice for the AGM. The motion to approve the draft agenda was adopted by the members present. The Honorary Treasurer (Professor Stephen Evans) summarised the financial position as set out in the accounts for 2022 and additionally gave indications of the current year. He reported that the financial position of the AE was stable. He highlighted the reliance of the AE on member donations for all areas of activity and reminded members that annual contributions were a vital part of their acceptance as members. He pointed out that there were still a significant number who did not contribute at all. He also raised the issue of the very small base of external financial support from non-member organisations. A note of thanks was recorded for sponsors as follows: For the Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation (Erasmus prize and lecture), the sponsors of the Brenner Prize. Professor Eva Kondorosi for the Adam Kondorosi Plant Sciences awards, To the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds for their support to Wroclaw Hub activities in 2021/22 and to the Wenner Gren Foundations for their continuing support to HERCuLES group activity. Elections of Officers and appointments of trustees. There were no scheduled election in 2023 ## - Appointments and co options to the Board of trustees A. A document had been tabled that set out the terms of service for those trustees that had been co-opted. Members present approved a proposal to renew the co-option for a fixed term for the following trustees: Professor Poul HOLM (Dublin) Class chair (A1) Humanities to 31st December 2025 Professor Bjorn WITTROCK (Uppsala) Class chair (A2) Social and Societal Sciences to 31st December 2024 Professor Paolo PAPALE (Rome) Class chair (B) Exact Sciences to 31st December 2027 Professor Eva KONDOROSI (Budapest) Class chair (C) - Life Sciences to 31st December 2026 - B. Members present also approved a proposal to continue the co option of the following trustees on a renewable basis. As follows: Professor Ole PETERSEN (Academic Director of the Cardiff Knowledge Hub) to 31st December 2023 Professor Eystein JANSEN (Academic Director of the Bergen Knowledge Hub) to 31st December 2024 Professor Milena ZIC-FUCHS to 31st December 2025 ## Other reports Professor Petersen (Academic Director of the Cardiff Hub), reported on AE involvement in the SAPEA and SAPEA Plus projects. There followed a series of presentations by Hub managers as follows: Barcelona (Prof. Jaume Bertranpetit Academic Director, Ms Maite Sánchez Riera - Hub Manager). Bergen (Prof. Eystein Jansen Academic Director, Ms Kristen Baaken - Hub Manager). Budapest (Prof Andras Baldi, Cardiff (Prof. Petersen Hub Director). Tbilisi (Prof David Prangishvilli Academic Director, Ms Sofia Kobakhidze Hub Manager), Wroclaw Hub (Prof. Arkadiusz Wojs Academic Director, Ms Kasia Majkowska Hub Manager), Graz Data Centre (Dr Helmut Leitner Centre manager, Ms Dana Kaiser manager) Professor Alban Kellerbauer, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal The European Review, gave a synopsis of the 2023 volume and reported on the translation into an Open Access Journal from 2025. The President and Vice President then reported on developments at the Munich Hub, and announced the creation of a new independent legal entity The Academia Europaea e.V. Professor Makarow reported that as of 20th September 2023, and new AE Munich legal entity (Academia Europaea e.V.) had been formally established. This development had been strongly endorsed by the AE Independent Advisory Group in 2022. All members of the AE had been informed of the plans at the AGM of 2022 and the strategic plan refers to the Board of trustees keeping the post-BREXIT situation under review. The background and motivation for this development was that the AE has its legal base in the UK and is a UK registered company and not-for-profit charity. None of the current Hubs is, in themselves, legal entities. Until Brexit, the UK was a full member of the Horizon programmes and our original 23 SAPEA funding came through the EU to London and Cardiff. Post-Brexit, the AE was still a member of the consortium of SAPEA Plus, but unable to be a beneficiary of EU funds. Current SAPEA plus funds that flows to the AE and Cardiff comes via the UK Research Funding Agency under UK-EU post-Brexit arrangements. This situation was a risk and was not guaranteed to be available for future SAPEA/Horizon programmes with the potential of exclusion of the AE from future EU funding streams. The Board and the IAG therefore agreed that the establishing of a separate legal entity at Munich (in an EU member state) would guarantee future AE participation, not only in SAPEA, but also in other possible EU funded projects. Since the creation of the new legal entity, the UK government has agreed to re-associate to the Horizon Europe programme that ends in 2027. However, this does not alter the current funding arrangements for SAPEA plus and the AE. Therefore, the intention is that the new Munich entity will become the AE HQ for all dealings with the EU and facilitate access for all members of the AE. The President then reported, that planning for SAPEA three is underway and is anticipated to cover five years, the period from 2025 to 2029. The call will open in 2024. The President also reported that the establishing of the new legal entity would not affect members. Both entities would continue for the foreseeable future and would co-administer aspects of the AE on behalf of all members. Members are de facto, members in common of both entities. These will still be a single identity for the AE, as far as external audiences are concerned. There were no questions from the floor or interventions and the 2023 AGM was declared closed at 19:30pm ------------------------------------ ## **SECTION 8: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities** The trustees (who are also the directors of The Academia Europaea The Academy of Europe , for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to: select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; - observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; - prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation. state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. In so far as the Trustees are aware: there is no relevant information of which the charitable company's examiner of accounts is unaware; and - the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the examiner of accounts is aware of that information. The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions ## **Risk assessment** The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular, those relating to the operations and finances of the charity and post BREXIT impacts and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate our exposure to these risks. However, the situation will be kept under constant review and any necessary steps taken. ## **Financial Report** The trustees confirm that suitable accounting policies have been used and applied consistently and that reasonable and prudent judgements and estimates have been made in the preparation of the financial statements for the year 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2023 The Trustees also confirm that applicable accounting standards have' been followed and that the financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis. The assets are available and adequate to fulfil obligations on a fund - by - fund basis. The Academia is required by UK law to present its accounts in Pounds Sterling. A version expressed in Euros could be prepared by converting the figures at the exchange rate for a particular date, but this would not be accurate since transactions are spread 24 across the financial year, during which a range of exchange rates have existed. Any significant foreign exchange impacts are described in the notes to the accounts. The full accounts have been published separately to this activity report. ## **Reserves policy** The total unrestricted funds for the year ended 31 December 2023 was £4,266 [YE 31 December 2022, £96,286]. The reserves were decreased by £54,042 due to the grant costs in regard to legal advice for the creation of the Academia Europaea e.V. It is the policy of the trustees to maintain sufficient reserves for the Academia Europaea to continue its charitable activities and in view of this, the trustees aim to achieve reserves equal to approximately six months of operations. Trustees are responsible to review the reserves policy every year. It is worth noting that there is a 10% deferred income from lifetime members that are recognised in the statement of financial activities annually. For the accounts year ended 31 December 2023 the deferred income in the creditors amounted to £175,684 while for the previous year 2022, it was £165,182. ## **Income and expenditure for the period ended 31 December 2023 (summary overview)** The year was one of a cautious, continuing relaxation in expenditures as impacts of COVID loosened further and more physical events became possible. Our total income for the year was £319,607. Total expenditure was £514,713 the balance of funds brought forward to 2024 from 2023 was £183,710. The AE as a charity seeks to operate an effective zero balance budget. We are essentially dependent upon members' donation income. In 2023, this was at £281,211 and life membership payments totalled £30,022 this represented a further, positive increase over previous years and a demonstration that members maintain an interest in the life of the academy. The Trustees stress to all members the importance of supporting the Academia by making a donation every year, preferably at the recommended level. Without more members making a payment, the AE will not be able to grow the range and type of activity and support for member initiatives that we need to deliver our obligations as a charity. Whilst a voluntary scheme remains our policy, the Trustees reviewed this policy and decided to levy a recommended general fee rate, linked to an age-related banding for annual donations, per member. Sponsorship continued to be successful for individual activity, and we thank the Wenner Gren Foundations (Sweden), The Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation (Germany), and The Balzan Foundation (Switzerland) for their support and the support of other sponsors. The Board continued to recognise the ongoing difficulty in obtaining core financial support from public and private institutions and expect that the Finance and Sponsorship sub-committee will try to address this. The accounts for 2023 are filed separately and can be viewed through the Academia Europaea website, the UK government Companies House and the Charities Commission of England and Wales websites respectively. ## **Marja Makarow, President On behalf of the Board of Trustees** ## **August 2nd 2024** 25 ## **Annex 1: Members elected in 2023 and who received an invitation to accept membership** **Class A1 Humanities Chair: Professor Poul Holm (Dublin))** **Class A1: Humanities and Arts ACADEMIA EUROPAEA NOMINATIONS 2022/2023 Class Chair: Poul Holm All nominations: 76 Foreign nominees: 2** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Membership
Sect. Full name Country Date of birth
type
A1 History & Archaeology (13) c. Amélia Polónia
A1 1 Bauer Stefan United Kingdom 1972-09-26 ORDINARY
A1 2 Hungary 1963-04-24 ORDINARY
A1 3 Burghartz Susanna Switzerland 1956-05-16 ORDINARY
A1 4 Echevarria Arsuaga Ana Spain 1967-06-26 ORDINARY
A1 5 Ekroth Gunnel Sweden 1963-??-?? ORDINARY
A1 6 Fernández-Götz Manuel United Kingdom 1983-11-23 ORDINARY
A1 7 Hellman Lisa Sweden 1984-06-08 ORDINARY
A1 8 Körner Axel Germany 1967-10-11 ORDINARY
A1 9 Moscoso Javier Spain 1966-02-23 ORDINARY
A1 10 Oosterbeek Luiz Portugal 1960-08-24 ORDINARY
A1 11 Power Ronika Australia 1975-07-28 FOREIGN
A1 12 Rapp Claudia Austria 1961-06-20 ORDINARY
A1 13 Weltecke Dorothea Germany 1967-06-10 ORDINARY
Classics & Oriental Studies
A2 c. Gerd Haverling
(5)
A2 2 D'Alessio Giovan Battista Italy 1966-10-20 ORDINARY
A2 4 Ragagnin Elisabetta Italy 1972-10-07 ORDINARY
A2 5 Shanzer Danuta Austria 1956-07-?? ORDINARY
A2 6 Sijpesteijn Petra The Netherlands 1971-02-02 ORDINARY
c. Pier Marco
A3 Linguistic Studies (14)
Bertinetto
A3 1 Arkadiev Peter Germany 1982-06-15 ORDINARY
A3 2 Boeckx Cedric Belgium 1976-01-06 ORDINARY
A3 3 Costa João Portugal 1972-11-04 ORDINARY
A3 4 Daniel Michael (Mikhail) France 1972-09-13 ORDINARY
A3 6 Demirdache Hamida France 1961-02-03 ORDINARY
A3 7 Demonte Violeta Spain 1944-06-27 ORDINARY
A3 8 Dobrushina Nina Germany 1968-09-28 ORDINARY
A3 9 Espinal Farré Maria Teresa Spain 1956-11-02 ORDINARY
A3 10 Hilpert Martin Switzerland 1977-06-04 ORDINARY
A3 11 Janse Mark Belgium 1959-08-31 ORDINARY
A3 12 Nichols Johanna United States 1945-01-01 FOREIGN
A3 13 Petit Daniel France 1967-07-15 ORDINARY
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A3 14 Poletto Cecilia Germany 1962-07-17 ORDINARY
Literary & Theatrical Studies
A4 c. Françoise Lavocat
(12)
A4 1 Alfano Giancarlo Italy 1968-01-12 ORDINARY
A4 2 Bokobza Kahan Michèle Israel 1957-11-09 ORDINARY
A4 4 Engberg-Pedersen Anders Denmark 1980-??-?? ORDINARY
A4 5 Frank Søren Denmark 1972-??-?? ORDINARY
A4 6 Louis Annick France 1964-11-25 ORDINARY
A4 8 Mikkonen Kai Finland 1965-05-03 ORDINARY
A4 10 Pulham Patricia United Kingdom 1959-03-06 ORDINARY
Musicology and Art History
A5 c. Ulrich Pfisterer
(7)
A5 1 de Divitiis Bianca Italy 1974-09-11 ORDINARY
A5 2 Flamm Christoph Germany 1968-07-20 ORDINARY
A5 3 Grave Johannes Germany 1976-03-22 ORDINARY
A5 4 Mücke Panja Germany 1970-??-?? ORDINARY
A5 5 Piéjus Anne France 1966-05-12 ORDINARY
A5 6 Shyp Serhiy Ukraine 1950-09-17 ORDINARY
A5 7 Wöllner Clemens Germany 1978-09-19 ORDINARY
Philosophy, Theology &
A6 c. Mircea Dumitru
Religious Studies (15)
A6 1 Ben Menahem Yemima Israel 1946-12-23 ORDINARY
A6 3 Crupi Vincenzo Italy 1974-07-12 ORDINARY
A6 5 Edgington Dorothy United Kingdom 1941-04-29 ORDINARY
A6 6 Fabre Cécile United Kingdom 1971-02-02 ORDINARY
A6 7 Jalobeanu Daniela Romania 1970-04-23 ORDINARY
A6 8 Kleingeld Pauline The Netherlands 1962-10-30 ORDINARY
A6 9 List Christian Germany 1973-11-07 ORDINARY
A6 10 Löwe Benedikt Germany 1972-04-18 ORDINARY
A6 11 Miroiu Mihaela Romania 1955-03-10 ORDINARY
A6 12 Tamer Georges Germany 1960-06-12 ORDINARY
A6 13 Timmermann Jens United Kingdom 1970-05-01 ORDINARY
A6 14 Valentini Laura Germany 1982-01-23 ORDINARY
A6 15 Weber Marcel Switzerland 1964-10-05 ORDINARY
Film, Media and Visual
A7 c. Göran Bolin
Studies (10)
A7 1 Bajomi-Lazar Peter Hungary 1963-12-23 ORDINARY
A7 2 Beullens Kathleen Belgium 1980-12-03 ORDINARY
A7 3 d'Haenens Leen Belgium 1966-03-12 ORDINARY
A7 4 Kennedy Helen United Kingdom 1965-??-?? ORDINARY
A7 6 Ribeiro Nelson Portugal 1976-02-09 ORDINARY
A7 7 Latvia 1965-??-?? ORDINARY
A7 8 Sanchez Biosca Vicente Spain 1957-??-?? ORDINARY
A7 9 Scolari Carlos Alberto Spain 1963-10-16 ORDINARY
A7 10 Sousa Helena Portugal 1967-??-?? ORDINARY
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**RECOMMENDED FOR ELECTION: 67 (87 % of the total nominations) Ordinary members ... (85 % of the nominations for Ordinary membership)** 27 **Class A2 - Social and Societal sciences: Class chair Professor Bjorn Wittrock (Uppsala)** **Class A2: Social and Related Sciences ACADEMIA EUROPAEA NOMINATIONS 2022/2023 All nominations: 58 Foreign nominees: 3** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Membership
Sect. Full name Country Date of birth
type
Economics, Business
A8 and Management c. Martin Kahanec
Sciences (15)
A8 1 Czakon Wojciech Poland 1975-11-08 ORDINARY
A8 2 Daianu Daniel Romania 1952-08-30 ORDINARY
A8 3 Gerber Anke Germany 1970-??-?? ORDINARY
A8 4 Havrankova Zuzana Czech Republic 1985-12-31 ORDINARY
A8 5 Kocenda Evzen Czech Republic 1963-01-31 ORDINARY
A8 6 Kramarz Francis France 1958-03-08 ORDINARY
A8 7 Molina José Alberto Spain 1963-09-02 ORDINARY
A8 8 Nillesen Eleonora The Netherlands 1975-11-05 ORDINARY
A8 9 Pagano Marco Italy 1956-11-26 ORDINARY
A8 10 Saint-Paul Gilles France 1963-02-08 ORDINARY
A8 11 Tyran Jean-Robert Austria 1967-04-29 ORDINARY
A8 12 Tyrowicz Joanna Poland 1980-11-25 ORDINARY
A8 13 Van Tulder Rob The Netherlands 1956-06-10 ORDINARY
A8 14 Weber Andrea Austria 1965-01-12 ORDINARY
A8 15 Woessmann Ludger Germany 1973-07-01 ORDINARY
Governance,
Institutions And
A9 Policies: Education, c. Peter Scott
Health and Welfare
(14)
A9 1 Aligica Dragos Paul Romania 1966-10-17 ORDINARY
A9 2 Andreescu Gabriel Romania 1952-04-08 ORDINARY
A9 3 Callender Claire United Kingdom 1954-04-26 ORDINARY
A9 6 Leisyte Liudvika Germany 1974-05-06 ORDINARY
A9 7 Lundqvist Åsa Sweden 1968-07-28 ORDINARY
A9 8 Lyngstad Torkild Norway 1976-08-20 ORDINARY
A9 9 Markkola Pirjo Finland 1959-07-22 ORDINARY
A9 10 Randma-Liiv Tiina Estonia 1968-08-08 ORDINARY
A9 11 Salles Marie-Laure Switzerland 1965-08-14 ORDINARY
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A9 12 Sylva Kathy United Kingdom 1940-01-01 ORDINARY
A9 13 Vanhuysse Pieter Belgium 1974-12-24 ORDINARY
A9 14 White Jonathan United Kingdom 1978-??-?? ORDINARY
Human Mobility,
Governance,
A10 c. Maria Paradiso
Environment and
Space (4)
A10 1 Gandy Matthew United Kingdom 1965-05-04 ORDINARY
A10 2 Scherbov Sergei Austria 1952-08-13 ORDINARY
A10 4 Witlox Frank Belgium 1967-09-08 ORDINARY
A11 Law (12) c. Nina Dethloff
A11 1 Chanturia Lado France 1963-04-14 ORDINARY
A11 2 De Franceschi Alberto Italy 1978-12-15 ORDINARY
A11 3 Ebbesson Jonas Sweden 1963-11-17 ORDINARY
A11 4 Halberstam Daniel United States 1966-12-02 FOREIGN
A11 5 Lehmann Matthias Austria 1972-01-13 ORDINARY
A11 6 Lemaitre Ripoll Julieta Colombia 1969-10-18 FOREIGN
A11 7 Lindahl Hans The Netherlands 1958-02-12 ORDINARY
A11 8 Mansel Heinz-Peter Germany 1958-01-05 ORDINARY
A11 9 Meissel Franz-Stefan Austria 1966-04-23 ORDINARY
A11 10 Nielsen Peter Arndt Denmark 1965-03-19 ORDINARY
A11 11 Samuelsson Joel Sweden 1973-06-06 ORDINARY
A11 12 Wudarski Arkadiusz Poland 1972-12-07 ORDINARY
Social Change and
A12 c. Peter Wagner
Social Thought (7)
A12 1 Brunner Jose Israel 1954-06-22 ORDINARY
A12 2 Carsten Janet United Kingdom 1955-10-23 ORDINARY
A12 3 Corsín Jiménez Alberto Spain 1973-01-12 ORDINARY
A12 4 Goldhill Simon United Kingdom 1957-03-17 ORDINARY
A12 5 Lahlou Saadi France 1960-02-19 ORDINARY
A12 6 Roessler Beate The Netherlands 1958-??-?? ORDINARY
A12 7 Tamm Marek Estonia 1973-11-04 ORDINARY
The Human Mind And
A13 c. Jüri Allik
Its Complexity (6)
A13 1 Kujala Teija Finland 1964-05-31 ORDINARY
A13 2 Muñiz José Spain 1949-12-24 ORDINARY
A13 3 Peiro Silla Jose Spain 1950-03-05 ORDINARY
A13 4 Räikkönen Katri Finland 1963-10-03 ORDINARY
Snowling Margaret
A13 5 United Kingdom 1955-07-15 ORDINARY
(Maggie)
A13 6 Winkielman Piotr United States 1966-03-20 FOREIGN
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29 **55 (94,8 %) 52 (94,5 %) nominations for Foreign membership) 3 (100 %)** ## **Class B - Exact Sciences: Chair Paolo Papale (Rome)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Class B: Exact Sciences
ACADEMIA EUROPAEA 2022/2023
Class Chair: Paolo Papale
All nominations: 203
Foreign nominees: 95
Membership
Sect. Full name (Surname first) Country Date of birth
type
B1 Mathematics (11) c. Philippe Michel
B1 1 Ball Keith United Kingdom 1960-12-26 ORDINARY
B1 2 Carrillo de la Plata Jose Antonio United Kingdom 1969-12-29 ORDINARY
B1 3 Chambert-Loir Antoine France 1971-04-26 ORDINARY
B1 5 Farkas Gavril Germany 1973-03-19 ORDINARY
B1 6 Fokas Athanasios United Kingdom 1952-06-30 ORDINARY
B1 7 Hesthaven Jan Sickmann Switzerland 1965-12-10 ORDINARY
B1 8 Markowich Peter Saudi Arabia 1956-12-16 FOREIGN
B1 9 Peng Shige China 1947-12-08 FOREIGN
van der Vaart Aad (Adrianus
B1 10 1959-07-12 ORDINARY
Willem) The Netherlands
B1 11 Xu Jinchao United States 1961-06-23 FOREIGN
B2 Informatics (77) c. Erol Gelenbe
B2 1 Alpaydin Ethem Turkey 1966-06-23 ORDINARY
B2 2 Baeza-Yates Ricardo Spain 1961-03-21 ORDINARY
B2 4 Blazewicz Jacek Poland 1951-08-11 ORDINARY
B2 5 Bovik Alan United States 1958-06-25 FOREIGN
B2 6 Chellappa Ramalingam USA 1953-04-08 FOREIGN
B2 14 De Moor Bart Belgium 1960-07-12 ORDINARY
B2 15 Denning Peter United States 1942-01-06 FOREIGN
B2 16 Deriche Rachid France 1954-06-05 ORDINARY
B2 17 Di Pietro Roberto Qatar 1970-02-27 FOREIGN
B2 19 Eldar Yonina Israel 1973-01-25 ORDINARY
B2 20 Ersoy Cem Turkey 1963-09-28 ORDINARY
B2 21 Garofalakis Minos Greece 1969-02-02 ORDINARY
B2 28 Khoussainov Bakhadyr China 1961-01-31 FOREIGN
B2 40 Moniz Pereira Luís Portugal 1947-12-20 ORDINARY
B2 46 Pollefeys Marc Switzerland 1971-05-01 ORDINARY
B2 47 Ponce Jean France 1958-08-15 ORDINARY
B2 50 Samarati Pierangela Italy 1965-10-12 ORDINARY
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B2 52 Seidel Raimund Germany 1959-??-?? ORDINARY
B2 57 Skowron Andrzej Poland 1943-10-06 ORDINARY
B2 62 Tannen Val United States 1953-09-24 FOREIGN
B2 63 Tassiulas Leandros United States 1965-01-12 FOREIGN
B2 77 Zhao Guoying Finland 1977-11-20 ORDINARY
Physics and Engineering Sciences
B3 c. Pavel Exner
(54)
B3 3 Chen Long-Qing United States 1962-12-16 FOREIGN
B3 8 Criado Regino Spain 1960-06-07 ORDINARY
B3 10 Dai Jian Sheng United Kingdom 1954-02-22 ORDINARY
B3 11 Domokos Peter Hungary 1970-03-01 ORDINARY
B3 12 Ernst Thomas France 1974-06-06 ORDINARY
B3 13 Ferroni Fernando Italy 1952-01-12 ORDINARY
B3 21 Koivunen Visa Finland 1905-04-17 ORDINARY
B3 22 Kunt Murat Switzerland 1945-01-16 ORDINARY
B3 23 Kurizki Gershon Israel 1952-10-29 ORDINARY
B3 25 Leblebici Yusuf Turkey 1962-08-14 ORDINARY
B3 28 Nandi Asoke United Kingdom 1954-01-01 ORDINARY
B3 29 Nori Franco Japan 1959-07-07 FOREIGN
B3 32 Rabczuk Timon Germany 1972-02-05 ORDINARY
B3 33 Riedo Elisa United States 1971-09-23 FOREIGN
B3 34 Rittel Daniel Israel 1956-09-29 ORDINARY
B3 36 Shao Jian-Fu France 1961-10-09 ORDINARY
B3 43 Wen Dongsheng Germany 1975-10-02 ORDINARY
B3 52 Zhu Yuntian China 1963-06-05 FOREIGN
B4 Chemical Sciences (31) c. Ulrike Diebold
B4 1 Balasubramanian Shankar United Kingdom 1966-09-30 ORDINARY
B4 3 Dai Liming Australia 1961-10-10 FOREIGN
B4 7 Fensterbank Louis France 1967-12-22 ORDINARY
B4 8 Ghosh Abhik Norway 1964-06-12 ORDINARY
B4 10 Haran Gilad Israel 1960-01-16 ORDINARY
B4 11 Jiang Lei China 1965-03-24 FOREIGN
B4 12 Hungary 1967-08-31 ORDINARY
B4 13 Klenerman David United Kingdom 1959-09-09 ORDINARY
B4 14 Kolb Ute Germany 1963-03-08 ORDINARY
B4 15 Kónya Zoltán Hungary 1971-01-10 ORDINARY
B4 17 Libuda Jörg Germany 1968-05-29 ORDINARY
B4 20 Malliaras George United Kingdom 1969-06-05 ORDINARY
B4 22 Salleo Alberto United States 1971-04-03 FOREIGN
B4 24 Strasser Peter Germany 1969-04-18 ORDINARY
B4 25 van Hest Jan The Netherlands 1968-09-27 ORDINARY
B5 Earth and Cosmic Sciences (30) c. Mike Burton
B5 1 Bakke Jostein Norway 1972-11-29 ORDINARY
B5 3 Bernier-Latmani Rizlan Switzerland 1972-07-19 ORDINARY
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B5 4 Cai Zongwei China 1962-01-28 FOREIGN
B5 5 Carcas Razvan France 1973-06-06 ORDINARY
B5 6 Cesare Bernardo Italy 1963-08-12 ORDINARY
B5 7 Conticelli Sandro Italy 1959-05-19 ORDINARY
B5 9 Gamba Paolo Italy 1965-04-05 ORDINARY
B5 10 Gleeson Sarah Germany 1970-03-05 ORDINARY
B5 13 Horne Richard United Kingdom 1955-10-05 ORDINARY
B5 14 Jiang Tong China 1962-08-27 FOREIGN
B5 15 Kohn Tamar Switzerland 1973-07-03 ORDINARY
B5 16 Lugaro Maria Hungary 1970-05-26 ORDINARY
B5 17 Marone Chris Italy 1959-05-24 ORDINARY
B5 18 McDonnell Jeffrey Canada 1959-10-20 FOREIGN
B5 24 Qiao Fangli China 1966-08-18 FOREIGN
B5 30 Zhang Yang United States 1965-10-19 FOREIGN
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**RECOMMENDED FOR ELECTION: 80 (39.9 % of the total nominations) Ordinary members 60 (55.6 % of the nominations for Ordinary membership) Foreign members 22 (23.2 % of the nominations for Foreign membership)** **Class C Life Sciences: Chair Eva Kondorosi. Vice-chair Robert Zorec** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Class C: Life Sciences
ACADEMIA EUROPAEA 2022/2023, Class Chair. Eva Kondorosi
Date
Sect. Full name Country of Membership type
birth
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
C1 c. Ray Dixon
(18)
C1 1 Atilgan Canan Turkey 1969 ORDINARY
C1 4 Grune Tilman Germany 1962 ORDINARY
C1 6 Ivaska Johanna Finland 1972 ORDINARY
C1 7 Liang Xing-Jie China 1972 FOREIGN
C1 8 Lilley Kathryn United Kingdom 1964 ORDINARY
C2 9 Mannervik Bengt Sweden 1943 ORDINARY
C2 10 Meisinger Chris Germany 1967 ORDINARY
C2 11 Saleh Maria Carla France 1971 ORDINARY
C2 12 Sansom Mark United Kingdom 1957 ORDINARY
C2 13 Schwartz Olivier France 1962 ORDINARY
C2 14 Silvennoinen Olli Finland 1960 ORDINARY
C2 15 Tollervey David United Kingdom 1955 ORDINARY
C2 16 Croatia 1971 ORDINARY
C2 18 Czech Republic 1955 ORDINARY
c. Crisanto
C2 Cell and Developmental Biology (9)
Gutierrez
C2 2 Echard Arnaud France 1972 ORDINARY
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32 |C2|5||Martin Seamus|Ireland|1966|ORDINARY| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |C2|6||van Kooyk Yvette|The Netherlands|1961|ORDINARY| |C2|7||Zaccolo Manuela|United Kingdom|1963|ORDINARY| |C2|9||Zurzolo Chiara|France|1960|ORDINARY| |||||||| |**C3**|||**Physiology and Neuroscience (19)**|**c. Balázs Gulyás**||| |C3|1||Annaert Wim|Belgium|1963|ORDINARY| |C3|3||Dalkara Turgay|Turkey|1952|ORDINARY| |C3|5||Harris Kenneth|United Kingdom|1971|ORDINARY| |C3|7||Jia Wei|China|1965|FOREIGN| |C3|8||KooyR. Frank|Belgium|1959|ORDINARY| |C3|9||Li Peifeng|China|1963|FOREIGN| |C3|10||LippHans-Peter|Switzerland|1947|ORDINARY| |C3|11||Mansvelder Huibert|The Netherlands|1968|ORDINARY| |C3|14||Morrone Maria Concetta|Italy|1955|ORDINARY| |C3|15||Nogueiras Rubén|Spain|1977|ORDINARY| |C3|16||Reiner Orly|Israel|1958|ORDINARY| |C3|17||Schoofs Liliane|Belgium|1962|ORDINARY| |C3|18||Smith Godfrey|United Kingdom|1957|ORDINARY| |||||||| |**C4**|||**Organismic and Evolutionary Biology**
**(15)**|**c. András Báldi**||| |C4|1||BatáryPéter|Hungary|1976|ORDINARY| |C4|2||Boitani Luigi|Italy|1946|ORDINARY| |C4|3||Borges Paulo|Portugal|1965|ORDINARY| |C4|4||Elena Santiago|Spain|1967|ORDINARY| |C4|5||Lambrechts Louis|France|1980|ORDINARY| |C4|6||Magurran Anne|United Kingdom|1955|ORDINARY| |C4|7||Martin-Lopez Berta|Germany|1980|ORDINARY| |C4|8||Menzel Annette|Germany|1966|ORDINARY| |C4|9||Peres Carlos|United Kingdom|1963|ORDINARY| |C4|10||Plieninger Tobias|Germany|1971|ORDINARY| |C4|13||Storch David|Czech Republic|1970|ORDINARY| |C4|14||Sutherland William|United Kingdom|1956|ORDINARY| |||||||| |**C5**|||**Clinical and Veterinary Science (103)**|**c. Péter Hegyi**||| |C5|1||AarestrupFrank|Denmark|1966|ORDINARY| |C5|2||Adami Hans-Olov|Sweden|1942|ORDINARY| |C5|3||AgyemangCharles|The Netherlands|1968|ORDINARY| |C5|4||Akslen Lars Andreas|Norway|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|5||Barentsz Jelle|The Netherlands|1956|ORDINARY| |C5|6||Baron Jean-Claude|France|1949|ORDINARY| |C5|7||Bockaert Joël|France|1945|ORDINARY| |C5|8||BourhyHervé|France|1960|ORDINARY| |C5|9||Brewin Chris|United Kingdom|1953|ORDINARY| |C5|10||Buitelaar Jan|The Netherlands|1953|ORDINARY| 33 |C5|11|Bustin Stephen|United Kingdom|1954|ORDINARY| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |C5|12|Dahlback Björn|Sweden|1949|ORDINARY| |C5|13|DalyAnn|United Kingdom|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|14|Davies Michael|Denmark|1960|ORDINARY| |C2|15|Dayan Peter|Germany|1965|ORDINARY| |C5|16|de Herder Wouter|The Netherlands|1960|ORDINARY| |C5|17|De Wit Ronald|The Netherlands|1955|ORDINARY| |C5|18|Delles Christian|United Kingdom|1969|ORDINARY| |C5|19|Dorobantu Maria|Romania|1951|ORDINARY| |C5|20|Duda Dan Gabriel|United States|1968|FOREIGN| |C5|21|Efferth Thomas|Germany|1960|ORDINARY| |C5|22|Einsele Hermann|Germany|1958|ORDINARY| |C5|23|Elbert Thomas|Germany|1950|ORDINARY| |C5|24|Engel Andreas Karl|Germany|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|25|Esiri Margaret|United Kingdom|1941|ORDINARY| |C5|26|Fauser Bart|The Netherlands|1954|ORDINARY| |C5|27|Filippatos Gerasimos|Greece|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|28|Gabbiani Giulio|Switzerland|1937|ORDINARY| |C5|29|Gallese Vittorio|Italy|1959|ORDINARY| |C5|30|Galvin Kathleen Theresa|United Kingdom|1964|ORDINARY| |C5|31|Ganser Arnold|Germany|1954|ORDINARY| |C5|32|Geddes John|United Kingdom|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|34|Goldman Michel|Belgium|1955|ORDINARY| |C5|35|Gordon Siamon|United Kingdom|1938|ORDINARY| |C5|37|Hassabis Demis|United Kingdom|1976|ORDINARY| |C5|38|Hemmer Bernhard|Germany|1963|ORDINARY| |C5|39|HomeyBernhard|Germany|1968|ORDINARY| |C5|40|Houlston Richard|United Kingdom|1956|ORDINARY| ||||||| |C5|41||Poland|1952|ORDINARY| |C5|43|Joels Marian|The Netherlands|1956|ORDINARY| |C5|44|Joensuu Heikki|Finland|1956|ORDINARY| |C5|45|KeyTimothy|United Kingdom|1955|ORDINARY| |C5|46|Kiechl Stefan|Austria|1965|ORDINARY| |C5|47|Klockgether Thomas|Germany|1956|ORDINARY| |C5|48|Kuskowska-Wolk Alicja|Sweden|1951|ORDINARY| |C5|49|Lambrecht Bart|Belgium|1968|ORDINARY| |C5|50|Lau Chak-sing|HongKong|1959|FOREIGN| |C5|51|Le Moal Michel|France|1934|ORDINARY| |C5|52|Libra Massimo|Italy|1970|ORDINARY| |C5|53|Lindvall Olle|Sweden|1946|ORDINARY| |C5|54|Ljunggren Hans-Gustaf|Sweden|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|55|Lord Christopher|United Kingdom|1970|ORDINARY| |C5|56|MiddeldorpSaskia|The Netherlands|1966|ORDINARY| |C5|57|Misrahi Micheline|France|1955|ORDINARY| |C5|58|NingGuang|China|1963|FOREIGN| |C5|59|Nolan Jerry|United Kingdom|1959|ORDINARY| |C5|60|Opdenakker Ghislain|Belgium|1956|ORDINARY| 34 |C5|61|Ott German|Germany|1959|ORDINARY| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |C5|62||Ireland|1964|ORDINARY| |C5|63|Pekkanen Juha|Finland|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|64|Peters Godefridus Johannes|The Netherlands|1952|ORDINARY| |C5|65|Pickles Andrew|United Kingdom|1954|ORDINARY| |C5|66|Pybus Oliver|United Kingdom|1974|ORDINARY| |C5|67|Qiao Jie|China|1964|FOREIGN| |C5|68|Qin Ling|China|1959|FOREIGN| |C5|69|Raitakari Olli|Finland|1963|ORDINARY| |C5|70|Rathmann Wolfgang|Germany|1958|ORDINARY| |C5|71|Rees Geraint|United Kingdom|1967|ORDINARY| |C5|72|Reitsma Pieter|The Netherlands|1950|ORDINARY| |C5|73|Rello Jordi|Spain|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|74|Ripatti Samuli|Finland|1969|ORDINARY| |C5|75|Rose-John Stefan|Germany|1954|ORDINARY| |C5|76|Rymaszewska Joanna|Poland|1968|ORDINARY| |C5|77|Sanak Marek|Poland|1958|ORDINARY| |C5|78|Sander Josemir|United Kingdom|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|80|Sattar Naveed|United Kingdom|1967|ORDINARY| |C5|81|Schapira Anthony|United Kingdom|1954|ORDINARY| |C5|82|Schultz Wolfram|United Kingdom|1944|ORDINARY| |C5|83|Schulze-Osthoff Klaus|Germany|1960|ORDINARY| |C5|84|Skakkebaek Niels Erik|Denmark|1936|ORDINARY| |C5|85|Snieder Harold|The Netherlands|1965|ORDINARY| |C5|86|Sonuga-Barke Edmund|United Kingdom|1962|ORDINARY| |C5|87|Spillantini Maria Grazia|United Kingdom|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|88|Spiller Robin|United Kingdom|1950|ORDINARY| |C5|89|Sprangers Mirjam|The Netherlands|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|90|Swaab Dick|The Netherlands|1944|ORDINARY| |C5|91|Tsatsakis Aristidis|Greece|1957|ORDINARY| |C5|92|Turner Robert|United Kingdom|1946|ORDINARY| |C5|93|Tzourio Christophe|France|1958|ORDINARY| |C5|94|Undas Anetta|Poland|1965|ORDINARY| |C5|95|UnterbergAndreas|Germany|1955|ORDINARY| |C5|96|Van der Poll Tom|The Netherlands|1961|ORDINARY| |C5|98|Vonk Noordegraaf Anton|The Netherlands|1969|ORDINARY| |C5|99|Walsh Timothy|United Kingdom|1964|ORDINARY| |C5|101|XuQingbo|United Kingdom|1958|ORDINARY| |C5|102|Yu Jun|China|1963|FOREIGN| TOTAL NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS: 164 Recomended for election: 140 Not elected this year: 24 "FOREIGN MEMBERS TOTAL: 16" "FOREIGN MEMBERS APPROVED: 9" 35 ## **Annex 2 Trustees, Council , and Section Committee composition as at 31[st] December 2023 for AE London** At the AGM in September 2015, the Regulations were amended to allow the appointment by the Board of a variable number of Vice Presidents (ex officio) to provide flexibility to the President and that serve a VP term limited to that of the President. These changes are within the overall limits set for the Trustees in the Articles of Incorporation and do not impact on the role or seniority of the elected officers. The Articles prescribe a Board made up of not less than 3 and NOT MORE than 15 members. The Articles describe a Board made up of elected officers (President, Vice Presidents and the Treasurer all elected by the membership (at a general meeting); a number of members (appointed by the Council the Class chairs) and a number of co-opted (by the Board) members. The subsidiary Regulations are used to determine numbers and balance up to the limit of 15. The current formula is President, elected Vice presidents (up to two were approved by AGM in 2012); Treasurer. In November 2015 the Board approved the designation of several existing Trustees as Vice Presidents ex officio, to reflect new portfolios. In 2023 these were Professor Paolo Papale (Class Chair); Professor Poul Holm (Class Chair) Professor Bjorn Wittrock (Class Chair) and Professor Eva Kondorosi (Class Chair). Governance and incorporation documents can be found on the website (www.ae-info.org). ## **Members of the Board of Trustees (at 31[st] December 2023)** ## Elected officers: The President Professor Marja Makarow until end of 2024, then renewable Treasurer - Professor Stephen Evans from Janaury 2023 until end of 2026, then renewable. The Vice President (officio) Professor Don Dingwell from Janaury 2023 to end of 2026, then renewable. ## Trustees Ole Petersen (UK) co-opted (to end of 2023), Academic Director, Cardiff Hub, Poul Holm (IRL) Class chair Class A1 (Humanities) co-opted Vice president _ex officio_ ;untll end of 2025, Paolo Papale Class Chair Class B (Natural Sciences) co-opted Vice president _ex officio._ Until end of 2027, Eva Kondorosi (HUN) Class Chair Class C (Life Sciences) co-opted Vice Preiosdent _ex officio_ until end of 2026, Bjorn Wittrock (SWE) - Class chair from January 2018 co-opted Vice president _ex officio_ until end of 2024, Professor Eystein Jansen (NOR) co-opted until the end of 2024. Academic Director of the Bergen Hub Professor Don Dingwell trustee 2021 - end of 2022, then Elected VP from January 2023 end of 2025, renewable Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs (Croatia) co-opted from January 2023 ntil the end of 2026, renewable Note: that the same Board of trustees reported here as operating for AE London, also functions under identical terms of office and regulations for election and appointment as the Board of trustees for the Academia Euroapea Munich e.V legal entity. In all essentials the AE London and the AE Munich entities operate as a single coordinated functional unit with commonly derived statutes, with the same mission and objectives and all members of the Academia Europeae on election and pre-the creation of AE Munich are de facto members of both legal entities without exception and discrimination. The two entities do however maintain independent financial systems and managemet responsibilities and the accounts are not consolidated as both enbtities are independent legal personalities. The Board of trustees maintains a common oversight of both organisations. ## **- Academia Europaea Composition of the Advisory Council (at 31 December 2023)** Following the establishment of the Class structure and the allocation of Sections into the four Classes, the role for a single Advisory Council (hereinafter The Council) meeting only annually and with a very limited function, has been replaced by a variable configuration composed of the four classes. The Section chairs (as members of the Council) are all members of one of the Class committees. Within each Class configuration, each Section chair has a term three years, with the possibility of renewal for one further period of three years. The Class chairs are independently appointed and are members of the Board of trustees, and therefore they act as the (independent) representative of the Council (the Sections) on the Board. This structure ensures stronger flow of information and consultation between the Board of trustees and the Advisory Council (the four Class committees) than was formerly the case. This structure has also facilitated a greater devolving of responsibility to the Class level than had been possible under the old Council formation. ## **Academia Europaea Section Committees Chairpersons and Committee Members[1]** At 31 December 2023 ## Academia Europaea Section Committees Chairpersons and Council Members1 ## A CLASS A1 Class Chair, Poul Holm (Trinity, Dublin, R of Ireland) holmp@tcd.ie (to end of 2025) Deputy chair: Professor Göran Bolin, Sweden Goran.bolin@sh.se (to end of 2026) 36 ## A1 History & Archaeology Chairperson[2] : Amélia Polónia( to December 2025, renewable)[4] Department of History, Political and International Studies, Univeristy of Porto amelia.polonia@gmail.com https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Pol%C3%B3nia_Am%C3%A9lia Committee[3] :, Nikita Harwich (till end 2025, renewable); Korine Amacher ( till end 2025); Maxine berg (till end 2025); Markus Denzel (till end 2025); Bogdan Szlachta (till end 2025); Manuel Lucena-Giraldo ( till end 2025; Guido Abbattista (until end of 2025, renewable); Judith Pollman ( until end of 2025, renewable). ## A2 Classics & Oriental Studies Chairperson: Gerd Haverling (to end of 2025) gerd.haverling@lingfil.uu.se Uppsala University, Dept. of Linguistics & Philology Committee: Gianfranco Agosti (till end of 2024), Alessandro Bausi, (to end of 2024), Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (to end 2025) ; Joachim Kurtz (to end of 2025, renewable), Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum (to end of 2025, renewable). ## A3 Linguistic Studies Chairperson: Pier Marco Bertinetto (till end 2025). SNS, Pisa, Italy Pierremarco.bertinetto@sns.it http://linguistica.sns.it/PaginePersonali/Bertinetto.htm Committee : Alain Peyraube (to end 2025), Angela Ralli, to end of 2025), Katalin E. Kiss (to end of 2023, renewable), Louise McNally (to end of 2026,renewable), Martin Kümmel (to end of 2026, renewable), Mark Steedman (to end of 2026, renewable). ## A4 Literary & Theatrical Studies Chairperson: Françoise Lavocat (to end of 2025, renewable) Department of Comparative Literature, University Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Lavocat_Francoise francoise.lavocat@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr Committee: Vladimir Biti (to end of 2025, renewable), Vivian Liska (to end 2023), Martin Middeke (to end of 2024), Catriona Seth (to end of 2023, renewable), Massimo Fusillo (to end of 2025, renewable). A5 Musicology & Art History Chairperson: Ulrich Pfisterer (to December 2025, renewable) Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU, Munich ulrich.pfisterer@lrz.uni-muenchen.de https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Pfisterer_Ulrich Committee ~~: M~~ elanie Wald-Fuhrmann (until end of 2024), Tanja Michalsky (to end of 2025), Barbara Baert (to end of 2023 renewable), Thierry Favier (to end of 2023, renewable), Anne Piéjus (to end of 2026, renewable). ## A6 Philosophy, Theology & Religious Studies Chairperson: Mircea Dumitru (to December 2025, renewable) University of Bucharest mirdumitru@yahoo.com https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Dumitru_Mircea Committee: Genoveva Marti (till end of 2025, renewable); Martin Carrier (to end of 2025), Cinzia Ferrini (to end of 2025), Margit Sutrop (to end of 2025), Timothy Williamson (to end of 2025), Alex Fidora (to end of 2025). A7 Film, Media and Visual Studies Chairperson: Göran Bolin (to end 2024) Goran.bolin@sh.se School of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University, Sweden Committee: Helena Bilandzic (to the end of 2024), Gustavo Cardoso (to end of 2023, renewable), Sonia Livingstone (to end of 2025, renewable), ( to end of 2025, renewable), Jo Pierson (to end of 2026, renewable). ## CLASS A2 Class Chair Björn Wittrock, Uppsala University and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. bjorn.wittrock@swedishcollegium.se (to end of 2024) 37 ## Deputy chair: Professor Shalini Randeria, Central European University, Vienna and Budapest. president@ceu.edu (to end 0f 2025) A8 Economics, Business and Management Sciences Chairperson: Martin Kahanec (to end of 2026) kahanecm@spp.ceu.edu Central European University, Vienna, and Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI, Bratislava) Committee: Andreu Mas-Colell (to end of 2025), Klaus Zimmermann (to end of 2026), Marie Claire Villeval (to end of 2025, renew able). Karine Nyborg (to end of 2026, renewable) ## A9 Governance, Institutions and Policies: Education, Health and Welfare Chairperson: Professor Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki (to end of 2026, renewable) pauli.kettunen@helsinki.fi Faculty of Social Sciences, Political History, University of Helsinki, Finland. Committee: Archana Singh-Manoux (to end of 2022), Stefano Bartolini ( to end of 2026, renewable), Liudvika Leisyte (to end of 2026, renewable), Liviu Matei (to end of 2026 renewable), Jonathan White (to end of 2026, renewable). A 10. Human Mobility, Governance, Environment and Space Chairperson: Benno Werlen (to end of 2026, renewable) benno.werlen@gmail.com Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany Committee: Leo van Wissen (until end of 2025), Tovi Fenster (until end of 2024, renewable), Jennifer Robinson (until end 2024, renewable), Ilona Palne Kovacs (to end of 2026, renewable), Kene Henkens ( to end of 2026, renewable). A11 Law Chairperson: Nina Dethloff (to end 2025) dethloff@uni-bonn.de Faculty of Law, University of Bonn Committee: Maarit Jäntäerä- Jareborg (to end of 2025), Christina Gonzalez-Beilfuss (to end of 2025), Dieter Gosewinkel (until end of 2025); Tatjana Josipovi (until end of 2026). Rianne Letschert (until end of 2026). Christopher Thornhill (to end of 2026), Bea Verschraegen Vice Chair (until end of 2025, renewable). A 12. Social Change and Social Thought Chairperson: Peter Wagner (to end of 2025) Peter.Wagner@ub.edu Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies and University of Barcelona Committee: Lars Magnusson (to end of 2025), Chris Hann (to end of 2026, renewable), Penelope Harvey (to end of 2026, renewable). A 13. The Human Mind and Its Complexity Chairperson: Jüri Allik (to end of 2025) juri.allik@ut.ee Dept. of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia Committee: Kimmo Alho (to end of 2025), Gian Vittorio Caprara (to end of 2023), Mara Dierssen (to end of 2026), Alexandra Bendixen (to end of 2026, renewable), Mats J. Olsson (to end of 2026, renewable), Anu Realo (to end of 2026, renewable). CLASS B Class Chair: Paolo Papale (To end of 2027) paolo.papale@ingv.it Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy ## Deputy Chair: vacant B1 Mathematics 38 Chairperson: Philippe Michel (to end of 2025) philippe.michel@epfl.ch Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Committee: Jean-Benoît Bost (to end 2024), Martin Hairer (to end 2024), (Volker Mehrmann (to end 2024), Amie Wilkinson (to end 2025), Karen Vogtmann (to end of 2024, renewable), Benoit Perthame ( to end of 2025, renewable). ## B2 Informatics Chairperson: Erol Gelenbe (to end of 2025, renewable) Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences gelenbe.erol@orange.fr https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gelenbe_Erol Committee: Schahram Dustdar (to end of 2025, renewable), Wil van der Aalst (to end of 2023, renewable), Rajiv Ranjan (until end of 2024, renewable), Pierangela Semerati (to end of 2026, renewable), Thomas Eiter ( to end of 2026, renewable), Carlo Ghezzi (to end of 2026, renewable) ## B3 Physics and Engineering Sciences Chairperson: Pavel Exner (until end of 2024) exner@ujf.cas.cz Doppler Institute, Brehova 7, 11519, Prague, Czech Republic Committee: Michael Peter Kennedy (until end 2023), Angela Bracco Vice Chair (until end 2023), Ursel Fantz (until end of 2024), Itamar Procaccia (until the end of 2023, renewable), Paul Linden (until the end of 2023, renewable), Päivi Törmä (from Jan 2022 to end of 2024, renewable), Fabio Zwirner ( until the end of 2024, renewable); Tomasz Dietl ( until end of 2026, renewable). ## B4 Chemical Sciences Chairperson : Johannes Lercher (to end of 2026, renewable) johannes.lercher@tum.de TU München Department Chemie Committee: Janine Cossy (to end of 2022), Bert Weckhuysen (to end 2022), Valentine Ananikov (to end of 2022, renewable), Hans-Peter Steinrueck (to end of 2025, renewable), Gianfranco Pacchioni (to end of 2025, renewable), Eleanor Campbell (to end of 2025, renewable). ## B5 Earth and Cosmic Sciences Chairperson: Professor Valerio Acocella (until end of 2026, renewable) valerio.acocella@uniroma3.it Università Roma Tre Committee: Gerald Gilmore (till end of 2023), Todd Ehlers (till end 2025), Liane G. Benning (to end of 2025, renewable), Laszlo Kiss (to end of 2026, renewable), Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente ( to end of 2026, renewable). ## CLASS C ## Class Chair, Eva Kondorosi (to end of 2026) eva.kondorosi@gmail.com ## Deputy Chair. Vacant ## C1 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chairperson: Ray Dixon (to end of 2024, renewable) ray.dixon@jic.ac.uk John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Committee : Brigitte GICQUEL (to end of 2023, renewable), Annalisa PASTORE (to end of 2023, renewable), Mart SAARMA (TO END OF 2023, renewable), Maria Carmo-Fonseca (to end of 2025, renewable), Kathryn Lilley (to the end of 2026, renewable), Anja Böckmann ( to end of 2026, renewable). ## C2 Cell and Developmental Biology Chairperson: Crisanto Gutierrez ( to end of 2023, renewable) cgutierrez@cbm.csic.es Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain - https://www.ae info.org/ae/Member/Gutierrez_Crisanto 39 Committee: Christine Mummery (to end of 2024), Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (to end of 2024, renewable), Ivan Dikic (to end of 2024, renewable), Elaine Dzierzak (to end of 2025, renewable), Lena Claesson-Welsh (to end of 2025, renewable). ## C3 Physiology and Neuroscience Chairperson: Balazs Gulyas (to end of 2024, renewable) Karolinska, Stockholm and Centre for Neuroimaging Research at NTU. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Hong Kong balazs.gulyas@ntu.edu.sg Committee: Dmitri Rusakov (to end 2025), Alexey Semyanov (until the end of 2026), Michaela Matteoli (until end of 2026), Karin Sipido (until end of 2024, renewable), Zaal Kokaia (until end of 2024, renewable). Mara Dierssen (to end of 2025, renewable), Thomas Perlmann (to end of 2025, renewable). ## C4 Ecology and Evolution Chairperson: András Báldi (to end of 2025, renewable) Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences baldi.andras@ecolres.hu https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/B%C3%A1ldi_Andr%C3%A1s Committee: Cristophe Thebaud (to end of 2025), Per Ahlberg (to end of 2025); Dianne Edwards (to end 2025), Louise Fresco (to end 2025); Mike Hassell (until end 2025). Richard Bardgett (to end 2025), José Maria Fernández-Palacios ( to end of 2026, renewable) ## C5 Clinical and Veterinary Science Chairperson: Peter Hegyi (To end 2024, renewable) hegyi2009@gmail.com Semmelweis University, Budapest Committee: Antonia Trichopoulou (to end of 2024, renewable), Helena Leino-Kilpi (to end of 2024, renewable), Jose J Céron (to end of 2024, renewable _)_ , Lajos Kemény (to end of 2024, renewable), Rebecca Fitzgerald (to end of 2024, renewable), John Neoptolemos (to end of 2024, renewable), Jacek Jassem (to end of 2024, renewable), András Varró (to end of 2024, renewable). --------------------------------------- 1 Committees are elected by the members of the section accordance with the Regulations for Section Committees. At least 50% of the committee has to be elected by a ballot of the membership of the Section. All members of the Section are eligible to stand for election as Committee candidates. The exact procedure for rotation and elections is decided by the Committees themselves. The Chair must ensure the committees reflect a balance of representation of the fields within the Section and should ensure a regular rotation of members of the committee. 2 Chairs serve a three term, renewable once only for a further three years. 3 Committee members serve a three year term that can be renewed once only for a further three year period. 4 (date first term ends / date second and final term ends subject to agreement of the committee and Council) 40 Company Registered number 07028223 Charity Reglsl&re4 number 1133902 THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA (THE ACADEMY OF EUROPE) Report and Financial Statements 31 December 2023 Keith Vaudrgy & Co Ltd Charter9d Co￿fied Accountsnts Sl marlo￿ Road London. W8 6LA THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA (THE ACADEMY OF ELIROPEI R•port and ac¢ouni* Contgnts P¥gg Company infomi8tion Directors, wport stAt•rn8nt of dir8¢knr8' rg¥pon$ibili11gS Independent eyamin8¢s report Stat&mènt of financial actIvrt￿& B818nce &heet Statement of c8Jh flow• Notes lo the finoncial $tslfrm•nts THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA (THE ACADEMY OF EUROPÉ) Company Inforniatton Dlr•¢tors Professor Ev8 Kondtro Professor Ok Holger Peiersen (resig￿d on 31 December 20231 Prolessor Donald Ding￿￿11 Professor Biom Wirtrock Profes60r Paolo Papale Pfofessor Paul Hdm Professor E￿Ie1￿ Jansen Professormafja Tprtu M¥karow Professor StephBfj Evaths lapptsinied on 01 January 20231 Professor Mi￿na Zic Fuchs Sgcrètary Dr Daviis Coales Examlnor of accounts Keith V8vdroy & Co Ltd Chartered Certified Accountant% 51 Marloes Road W6 6LA •nk• CAF Bank Lld 25 Kings Hill Avenue Wesl Maili Kent ME19 4Ja NaM*si Bank PLC Natwesi Regeni street 250 Resent Sltset London WI83BN He¥%ilson Becke + Shaw Shakespe8re House 42, Nevm)a¢rtel Road Cambridge CB5 8EP ReglBt•Ted offi¢• Room 251 Serwle House Malet Stteel London WCIE 7HU Comyny RooL8t•Trd numbv 07028223 Charty RoglBtgr•d number 1133902 THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA tfHE ACADEMY OF EUROPE) Reoi¥t•r•d numb•r.' 07028223 Dlr•ctw8' R•port Th* Inffjtees (who fDf CDmpany luw Purpos￿ ay• Dirertor81 .prniont th￿1 repart aTr# hnofi¢101 Jmamonts yew ended 31 DKwnbor 2023. Prfn¢lpal •¢t1¥1￿ Thé comwny's princ4P81 ath.vity thring ¢ont5nued to Ihe prfmots'on ot IntarrnatJoMI scholBfshlp. r•#•&th, provlslon ol training In h*her educ8bDn. Som6 of tho Blrnj ol th or9gni58tign are to mAke recomrnendaiionj to nat'on81 gtsvammgnts, ntèm*ional ggendos coneemlng matters th•¢#ng $don￿. sth014rnh¢) and academie lifo in Europe. ￿•0, artouraging Intwdi$d￿lnory ond lfitem•bono1 f•$88rth in wll •r8a• ol knmln9. DIM¢ fDJlr*Ary ••Thod al truit•a￿draQtOr1 durtry lh• yur. Proth•or Eva KM¢om•l PrDkn8or Ol? Holaér P•l•r••n Ir••lgA•d on 31 D•r*mb•r20231 Prof•J$or Donald DlnwAI Prof•••or Piorn wllrock Proh880r Paolo Pa￿& Profwsor Plul Holm Pruf¢sBor Ey8twn Janmn Prof•8sor Kl#ri• Tenu Mak*row Prof••xY 8t•ph&n Ev•n? 1•pp￿￿tr# on 01 J•nwry20231 Profe8oor Mlkn• Zl¢ Fuch• Ohclo•uM ot InfOrynA￿on to Ind•p•nd•nt •umbn•r: Each p•rson vthg wa$ a trus￿ at iho bme th1• report •pprov•d cwfim•th•L' sotor •# h¢ Ss aw•r•, thor• i• no rnl•v•nt Infomi•tion olwhlth th• comp•n*• Ind•pvnd•nt •Mrlner its unoware". and h• hA8 t¥k•n •ll (h* stw• that h• oughtto h•v• t•kèn •• a tN•ts• In ordorto rnAK• ol •ny rethnt Inforn￿on to ••t•lMhh th•tth• rp)mp*nY• Ind•p•ndtsnt •xamlMr l• ol Ihat irtf0mi￿0n. th• In¢omlno $1 th•n £1 millh)n and that In Auth t• not Mqulf•d por SORP 2016 •nd FRS102. 8B••d th• •rtd•• of a••c4abon Mction 63, •n •xwmltw d ac¢Nnts Th• r4￿w￿ •FWOv•d by th• lymrd w . . Ind •lgn•d ￿hNl1. TA￿le• •nd H￿orAryT￿l￿rnr THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA ITHE ACADEMY OF EUROPEI Stat8ment of Trustees. Responsibilitt•S The trustees Iwho a￿ also Ihe directors of The Academia Eurrpaea for the purposes of company lawl are responsible for preparing the TfU5tees' Report and the financial statements in accordance wth applicable law antl United Kingdom AccounlirrfJ Standards {Unit￿ Kingdom Generally Awpted Accounting Practice). Company law requires th8 tIU8tees to prep8re finanoal ststwnents for each financial year. Under that law the trustees have elected 10 p￿pare th8 financial statements in accordan￿ ￿th United Kingdom Ge[Treral￿ Accepted Accounting Practice (Financial Repo￿n9 Standard 102 and applicAble lawl. Under company law tt)e Iruslees must not approve the financial ststements unle5$ they a￿ $atisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the cornpany and ofthe profrt or10ss of the Company for that period. In preparing these finan¢iaJ stat8m8nts, the ￿1￿CtorS ar8 requir8d to.. sele¢t suitable accounting policva5 arK* thèn wly Ihem consistently.. observe the rnethods and prinrypl8s In Charitse5 SORP, • makeiudgem8nt5 and e5timate5 that arè ￿8$Onable and prudent". strte whethw applicable UK Accountsng sianclards have b8en fDJlowod, sutlect to any material ¢epartures disclosed and explained in th8 finèncial statements, prepar8 the financial ststements on th8 going concern ba31s unb35 It is inappropri* to presume that the company will continue in business. The trusiee5 are ￿SpOnsIb￿ for k88ping adwuate accoLJntng records ￿8t are suffiaent to $how and ￿l81ft the ¢ornpanys tran$a¢knon$ and disclose with ￿aSOnable accuffjcy al any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements compty wrth the Companie5 Act 20Lb. They are also ￿sponSible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for tsking reasonab￿ 5tep$ for the preventson and dete¢b¢n of fraud and other irregularibes. In so tsr as the tsustees are aware.. there is no ￿leVant infomiab.on ofwhich the d)aritabl8 ccffjpanls examiner of accounts is unaware.. and the trustees have taken all Steps thatthey ought io have taken to rnake themselves awa￿ of any relevant informabon and tu e5tatylish th81 the examiner of aG¢¢unt is awa￿ of that infomgknon. Thè trustees are respon$ible for the maintenance and intagrity Df the CO￿￿31* and finantial Information Included on the ¢haritsble compan15 website. L8gi51ation in the United Trfjngdorn governing the preparabon and étsseminatiDn of financial 5tatsments may differ from I￿l$lation in otherjurisdictions. THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA (THE ACADEMY OF EUROPE) . Roport of th8 Independent Examiner to the Trustse8 olth¢ ¢harltabl¢ company on the accounts forthe year ended 31 D8c?mb¢r 2023 I report 10 the Tm$ieES Qn my examinknan of finanryal ¥Mlerrents of the charitsble comparry￿ pag88 6 to 13 far the year ended 31 D￿ember2D25 ￿ttich have been prepgred In accordance wlh Ihe charit￿3 AGt2011 Ilhe Acll ar￿ wth the Financia Rwrting Standard 1D2. leffeclive 151 JanL￿ry 20161 as Mr￿￿*d by FRS 102 SORP Islalemenl of Re¢trnmended Pra¢bce furAcEounling ar¥J Reporbng by Chafities) 2019, ap￿Ic0tAe ￿ all a¢countln9 ppriod5 beginning on or after Isl January20191. (Tne SORPI, published by the Charty comm￿￿on In England & es {CCEWJ. and Ur￿eT the tristrmcgl cost convention 8ThYthe acc￿)￿n9 pdides sei on page 9. RewGllve mpon&lbllltles olth•Trust•B¥ and In¢wndsntEx•mlnor tho ba•18 of th• r8port As deschbfrd ￿ pag? 3, you, charitab￿ comparvs y￿SteeS. who are *80 the Directors oflhe Company lor purix>5es of CDmpary law. are responsiblef(Y the prep8f81icrt ol the financial siaitrmenis In 8c¢ordanc8 wrth Ine c￿npanIesACt 2006. the Charilies Act 2011 and all other awicable lawand ￿th United Kingdom Gener& Attepted AC￿rtIng Pra¢li¢e. appI￿a￿e lo 8maller enlthe¥, and lor beirg satisfied that the financkyl statements 9Ne a InE and falr vlew. The T￿SteeS consider Ihalthe audit wuiren*nl of SectKn 144111 of Ihe Charities Acl 2011 Ilhe Acl} does not apply, ihal Ihere 15 no requirement in the fflemDiandum and artide5 of th2 charity forlhe conductirwj of an audit, and Ih81 the 8t¢DUnt8 do nol require an audit in accordancev￿￿ Part 16 Df lfve Companit$A¢i 2006 thai no ¥nembèr or mèmbtrf$ have reqL*Sted an audit pursuant lo SeEtion 476 Df Companies kl 2006. As ¢onsewence, the Trustees have ek¢ied th81 the financial si*emerts be subp¢t lo Independent examinalion. amng sati&fied mysdf thai finantsai statements are not required 10 be a¢A#ed u￿￿ranY legal prowsion. or OtheTh￿, and tre eligi￿?fOr independent examln81bn. ￿13 my respon5ibilty lo.- *) examine the finandal stslemenb ollhe thority undersection 145 oflhe Act, bl fonuw the aNAiraL4e proGedure6 iri thtr Dire¢bons gi¥eD by Ch¥ity COMrr￿SSl0n wdwseclion 145(5llbl of Ihe Acl. eaJl$ of lthdop•nd8nt Examlne¢s Slbtsmontand fiGOPO of work umd•rtak8n Sinct the ch&iitat4e cornpan￿￿ gross IncomE exEBeded £250,000. the ch91rta￿e compan¢s ex8rriner mu¥l be 8 nber 018 botylisled in section 145 of the Act. l Confirm that l am qUa￿f￿d ID undenake the examination becausé l am an aU￿LSe0 rwni%rol Ctrortered tsli1Sed Account8nl$. onè oflhe I￿81ed bod￿5. I report in rE$wt ofmyexamln&llon oltte ¢haTiV5 finafKial ¥t8iem￿ts c8rFW wt ￿￿[5146 or it* Aca. In ratrwng out nYeXam￿*1IOn. I have foll0v￿ all the applthblè Thrtcaion$ glven by the Charity Commlsslon Under $ettion 145l5llbl of Ael 5ettiw out the duties ol an Independent exarniner tslaivJn 10 the conducbry of an independeni ex8minaliw. An independente%8min8lion Include5 a review of the accouniw records kept by IhE chdnlable company and ol il* a¢¢ouniing $yslems etnkqoyed bythe tharAable company and a comparison of Ihe flnancial statetnenls presented Wlh those records. 11 also Includes c0nsthrall￿ ol any unusual hems or disc105ures In the finan¢i81 siakmenls. and seeking explanaiiorts from you. as Trus￿. 0￿ce￿ing S￿h matters. The purpose of Ihe exarnlnalion Is lo estatAish as lar as possibk Ihal Ihere have bBen no breaches of charity le9islaliDn and Ihal. on a lesl basi5 of evyJen* rdevamw itrt amounts and discbsures made. the financlal slalements campty ¥%*th the SORP. The pr¢cedures undertaken do not prO￿a8*llhe e¥￿en￿ that be requlied In an audk. and InfwmalK supplied by the Tru51ees in the coutse olthe e¥amingtson Is not subiectsd 10 lesls or enquiries and doe5 not coverau Ihe rn3tter5 thai an auditor wouhs cor6ider In arrnping al an opNon. The pLonnir¥J and C￿d￿￿t of an audil goes beyond Ilmited as5uran¢Elhal an irthpendwtexanMnalK)n can PrOv￿e Crnsequen11y. I do not express an 3th4il orlnion Dn the wew¥ven by the financial statements. and In part￿)jIar. I exwe5s M opilliDn 8$ 10 the financial 51alE¥nent¥ give 8 Irue llnd fail ¥￿v0f tne affairs of Ihe charty, a ffly réport 1$ Ilm1￿￿ 10 the matters set out in iThe siètsmenl below. I planned and PBrf¢nred my examination so a5 to satisfy mysell ih31 Ihe obieclives of the inder￿ent exafflwlio artradNevad before finalising Ihe repJ11 obialned wntten assurances ffom trÈ Truslees of al maitnal m8tt8rs. Indop8nd•nt ExamlnBts Stalemènt, Roportknd Opln Subied lo the limitati￿$ upon the scope ofmywDrk as det8led above. I have Comp￿ted my ewinalK)n." Can confiimlhai."- The acco￿￿ oflhi$ ctwilablB company are not requtred Iv be audited under Part 16 ofthe Companle¥ Ad 2006., Thi$ Is a report in respett of an ex8minHlion carried out under 145 of the Act &nd in ￿CordanCe %%ilh Oiitclio gi¥en by the Chartty Comrni55ion under $edion 14515llbl of Ihe Aclwhi¢h m8y be appl￿b￿". and Ihel no rnaterial mallets h&¥e ¢ome10 my attemion kn cor￿ts0nVllth the oxJrnirk3bongMng C8LL4e to be￿eve that in any m8knal respect:_ accountiny rec(rt8 WEre nol kepl In re¥p8Ct Of￿ chanty as reoL4red tysection 386 oflhe Compan￿5 Aci 2006 and Sèctbn 130 ofTr Chariti2sAd 2011.. the finanu81 tswements do not acc1￿￿￿1￿ th￿¢ recoTrls". or tt*fin8tKiel $ta12mÈnts do not wmpty*ilTh the Spplvb￿ requiren￿5 ciyKemlNJ the form atvj wntenl of ¢counts sel out In seaion 3￿ oflhe Companie5 Act 2006 Olhw than any requirement Ihattt* 8CWtB rue and fairf Vw, whlch i5 nol a matter ctsisidered as part of an Indepe￿￿1 exa[[￿nIt[0n.' have not prepared In accardance Ihe rrdhod$ and princiAes get wi in the FRS 102 SORP Istslemenl of Recommended Practice lorAccounling and Reportlng by Ch8rillesl 2015. lès by BLdletn Issued In Febiuary 20161. (The SQRPI. I have no Con￿M$ and have com& across noother matters in 132,5001 N•t 387.731 Fund• and r•••rfftB Ganwal lund• R•stricL&J funds 179.444 291.445 Toiil lun 183,710 Thg dirvclor8 ete sati5fith1 that th• cornp8ny ￿ entiw from th• rn4ulr•montty awliiundor s•¢kn 477 ofthe Crthyni•* Art 2006. munt4fS notf8qulr& th• cunpanylo c&tsin an audit In •¢*￿d￿ne•￿71h se¢#kn 478 01 The diV•CtDM th•tryawn￿bd￿j lor ¢omptyino Imth the requlrem8nt8 ofih com￿nI0￿ kt20C¢ r8spEct to axounbng records tho pr8p¥ation ofaecounts. chanty15 subjectio IndependentE¥uminat'M tharty109l$￿tiw, and lh8 Twxiofthe Ind￿￿ntExwnin•r h on pag?é. The fin•ftd#l tstam•nbwef• 8pprov8d by1he board oftru*egB ¢n ... . on its tsh8Wby. THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA (THE ACADEMY OF EUROPE) statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 Dacèmber 2023 2023 2022 Opor4tlng a¢tlvlt188 Los8 for the financial wr 1204.0211 18,0401 Adjuslrnents for. Interest ￿(￿l￿able Interest payable Depreciabon Increase in debtors Increasts In cradilors 12,3551 648 14131 1,426 11,6471 22,513 16.325 12881 11. 1193,8681 Interest r￿1Ved Inte￿$1 paid 2,355 16481 413 14861 Cash lused inllgenerated by operating activities 192.161 16,252 Investing a¢llvltio8 Payments to acquire tsngibkg fix0# assets IB051 Cash used in investrng 8ctivth.es 805 FIna￿[n9 aetivlti Repayment DI loan 110.0001 17.5001 Cash u58d in finan¢ing actwibes 10.000 7,500 N•t ¢aBh lu#•d￿@¢narat8d C85h (used inllgererated by operating activities Cash used in investi￿ acti￿tre8 Cash used in financing activitins 1192.1611 16,252 18051 17.5001 110,0001 Net cash Ius8dygeneot8d 1202.1611 7.947 Cash and ca8h equivalants 811 January Cash and cash equivalents at 31 Oec*mter 594.384 392,223 586.437 594.384 Cash and cash equivalents comprise.. Cash at bank and In hand 392.223 594,384 THÉACADEM14 EUROPWI fTHE OF EVROPEI Na¢È¥iothq acciYJnis lorthÈyear•nd*d JI Dec•rnb8r 2023 1 Ac¢ounlin9 ￿￿£1 Th• accou￿9 ha%* beEfi p￿&(1d on Ihv ￿lts. ￿dtsr tost ahd F￿¥r￿1 ReP￿￿r ID2. ieffxbwo t￿j￿nU0ry%lÈ}AndF￿5 102 SORP {StaW￿t0IReCOrn￿*nthd PracbGEhifvL¢ouThM9 byCh#rthsl 2010.4p￿k￿b￿ bEginhknQ ofi oraftei 1s1 JaThu4ry20191.1Tr8 SORPI.PubllsheooyttLe Chaw & Wd95 IC¢EW . 4Dd ￿ •ttordencE wA1h 41 law m the th&nVS I￿￿dI(￿n Df ¢xtt*Pi thal th¥ h•s prep*ed thé Etslèménh h Ihp FRS 1U2 SORP IsL9￿M￿l ot Retomm•ndEd lor ch5￿1¥&1 2Qlg. appkcth to ¥1 or thr l&t Jur￿lty 20191. IT￿ SORPI W Prt[•￿rKe WJ SORP. SQRP 2005.w*th ha& toon ¥￿￿￿ta￿rn. nohthSt4ntyro the faUth&l (Accounts 0rt4 Répllrt51 200grfér•xF**to￿SOftp InGQrn InthpOtsmnloffnvntdllcbviks150FAi39 20.483 .041 .04 1•m Kor￿￿￿•1 EulOP*4fj P*Prwi• WEA 7.825 7.•ZS 31.795 nz NIX￿￿6￿￿￿91OD￿￿) 846 78.7Y 4D,718 liuom 3Je. Jidthoi T￿l￿an81( 41.OWJ3 Tha liuv￿g#h￿9 Kqkvd knoAland ￿&la￿lIOr&,dU￿ lothopov*ki SAPEAIui ofposts8ttymrt1￿I C47Lld al•¢tlhi TM Ac4d¥th• U.K ￿nI￿r4￿.1htsAUdern Ih•EU [*t￿•t• •c(•yi IN EuT¢P*•4 Thq LonaL47 un¢•r i comfflots E*chwllhivplDl•POrtMpii•tytyto IhthiowTriqgvwrybod*¥. *id•wlbpd IDth•lr*l•lLl•¥ 7 4WRNANtse¢￿T* IUn¢¥BllS¢t40 Fundl JJOg ID.7 12.lQ9 1.$20 Ind•pwndinlqMffllnWT••• IUnNitr¢t•d Fund) 43.8ee 39.401 40.SJg • 8upporteo•t zozi Not• lQ,691 31.074 rr 8•ryk¥J• JI.703 Sloff Co lQ6.137 75É 957 154,C65 io Euffjpo•n Pa￿Y P¥OJltt.SAPEA 1022 EU Pr0￿Ct-S￿￿dI EU Prohct-WEA-WcthFaL*•DÈ I EUPrwi-S*PEA.Vlotk P4L*a9E 2 EUPiwW- SNPEA- Pa&DBe 3 99545 1.464 149 7.478 JÉ2 11 STAFF COS15 2022 %.491 s.￿5 3.811 92.9)7 5.818 3.760 102.V5 Ethplwrt NI Pgnskifps TatilSt•ffCts&L%.UK 2•23 2Q22 ¢￿￿b￿a¢￿s No￿1￿￿ Fe¥pF&ofth•￿￿rt1&b1the￿qrl2021-EN￿. •&s•L% 12 T•￿9￿￿ Ix4d4Mpts Compuwr Olk• Fum*u T*lt41 ¢OST 1 Jottu￿2025 2Q.t45 27.622 31 DWbw2023 2D.a45 6.777 ACCVMULATEDDEPAECLATPJI At 1 Jan￿ry2023 6.777 2J,28S $1 2023 17.592 24.J6g NET BOOKVALi J1 D8c•mbEr2023 htJ1 OK4Mbtr2022 3.253 4,337 4.337 2J 7D22 5.061 t2 14 ¢Md*Drn 2123 ID tcrua14 5.554 2.$30 10,0 io.wo 1#4J30 16 du••Nwmv•th•n 1 2J Zty42 •nk 32.500 14 Rq•ttst•d FuDd• Op•nlng n¢• ••ourc R••ourc•A Trthn•T•rn 114ei E¥4 Euwpts￿ Palk¥ P￿•￿1- SAPEA mKondr[DwA￿1d H•lni Nkthl I0•￿￿1v) SythqyBr•MwP 144,839 •8,417 30.221 B.4Ag 120.M3 P*PIW¢I. SAPEA, Eurnp•iThPOKvwoi•d. i￿n￿E￿I￿￿ Mid. I• U￿￿*1•¢￿￿¢Totyty ￿tty 13 THE ACADEMIA EUROPAtA ITIIE ACAOEMY OF EUROPE) . Report oftha Inde￿ndant Examln¢r to th• Tru8t••8 olth• charltablè company on the a¢¢ounts for thè year ended 31 08¢ombgr 2023 I report 10 lh8 Tru*ee$ on MyexamW￿tson ofthe finanrAal stalewents oflhe Chantab￿ compary ￿ pag88 6 to 13 for the year en￿ 31 DecemLEr 2023 vthich ha¥e been prepAr&l In BecorrtBn￿ &￿th the Chadyes A¢t 2011 Ilhe Act> and ￿1th Ihe Financial Reportiw St￿8rd 102. (effective 1st January20161 as mOdif￿d ty FRS 102 SORP (Slatemenl of RecomnEnde¢ Pra¢11￿ foi A¢¢ounllw and Reporting by Charitie5} 2019. appliCa￿e ￿ all accounlire Pell￿ ooginning on or after 151 January 20191. (The SORPI, publtshed by the Charty Commission In Engla￿1 & ales ICCEWI. and una8r tM$toncal cost convention Ine acrAkntsng pdides sel paoe 9. R88pgcU¥* rn•pon6lblUt1•8 of tho Tru•téb• and the IndopendontEx•mln¢r •nd of tho r•port 4 d¢#thW On page 3. yw. Gh9FttaUe￿￿p8n￿5 TnJ818es. vtho ar8 l80 the Elrectorn ofih8 Compary for nl f.nrnpany IAW Arp rpwnyiN• for twgr8thx ol tho fin8nc&l stJiom@nts in èctordyr￿wbth th Compan￿5 Act ZDD6. ihe Chwities Act 2011 and ￿1 oif*r ap￿1¢a￿t v￿lti United Kiryjom GEner&ty Accepted Acwjntw Practice. •)plcab* to sm￿lerent￿, and fort*ffj $*isW Ihal thè fhantAOlst8temèniS a Itue and Valr￿eW. The Tru$teÈs COr￿lde[that the a￿d￿t requrement of Section 14411} of the Charities Acl 2011 (tt￿ Actl does not appty. and ￿81 there is no r8qulren*N In mer￿an¢1￿M and 8rtk48s of ¢harity lor th8 ¢ondudiry ofan awjtt, and Ihal the accounts do noi reqL4re an audh h aCCordance￿1h Part 16 of Ihe Compan*$A¢i 2006 and that no rrEmter or WEmber5 hs¥e requested an aLttIII purgu&nt io Sethon 476 of c￿Mpanie¥Act 2006, As a tt0nsequts￿, Ihè TrL￿e$ havet￿cted thai the fin8nd81 statemerrts be subftd lo Indewdent examholion. Haviiiy Jrdl fiiiailudl *lalthiieilLs aTt ITfX ityuifbu Iv be le9al oththse. are for lTh*ependenl exarninalw. il is my TE5PWsibility Iv".. al ex*xine Ihe financial 81aterf*nls of the ehadty Lbider Secbon 145 of the Art bl fol(withe apFAitthepr￿dures in th& Dlreclor* gi¥on tythe ClwtyComryH5sbn ￿der sethon 1445)(0) L¥ th8 Acl. Ba•li of IndepondgDt Ex•mlDgV• 3tal•mont•nd 8cop• of work und•rt•k•n Slnrz 11* th8rtl8blecomp8nVs gloss IrKorreexc2Eded E260.IX¥). Ihe ¢￿Inable ¢omppn*s exan4ner m￿1 be member of a *x)dy listed In section 145 01 the Act. I confim that i am qualitsd lo undertake thp exarfKknallon tfjcause l am an aLthotlsed memtér of Charfei& Cerbfled A£countanls. I￿[¢￿ one ol IIE11sied btsd￿s. I rryDrt In rp&pe¢tofmyexanlnalSon *tat4m•rts LTh*r¥145 ofih• In c*tyng out ftry ex*Tr￿n81k)n, I na¥efo1￿md all the 8ppltsblÈ t*rectiorts glven by the Charity Catnnl88lon urthr 4•dion 14s(SI￿) of Ihe Act *etbW Out ￿ dutWg of 8n 1nrwnrtp.nt p.¥Hmin*f ift rAlalbn Its the conducbng of an indepeTh*ertexamination. kn iNlependeni 8xanNnalion indudes 8 revw44fthe accouniw records kept by the alliab￿ ttsmpary and afthe accounliw sy51e￿ts emdtyed bv the chantsb￿ CDmP*W and 8 comporison ofthE finanri#l Str￿MentS prese￿ Ih05e record$.11 also Indudes Cons1￿13110￿ Df any unu$L41 ￿erns ordL8do5UtE$ the finanual S￿leMents, and seeklng expl•naDons frryn you. as Tmstses. concerning 5wh tnatter8. The wrpose f the èxamin81th) is to ests￿l$h as fer é¥ wsiL4e th81 tr*re have tttn no ￿ea￿leS ol charity legk8lat￿ and Ihal, On 8 test b8$LA ofevKlence r*¥ant lo 11* 3rrtsJrrts and digcbsures Made, th? finandal $t•iements compty tr* soRp. The p[OL￿￿e4 undertaken do not provlde ￿1 Ihe*vlderte Ihatwrubj be reqU￿red in an aLh1L ono knformaik VvI￿ by lI￿Tr￿le¢4 Inlhe of emtsminalion i• not JubleGted to audit icat¥ cr cnquiricg ond docs not covef all matters that an auditor w￿d con$Klpr In arrivKvJ at an opnion. The tyann4NJ aThl rA￿dUCt of an audit beyond th¢ Bjsurartee ihÈt en W¢pcndcnl ¢¥gnMrwatiw prov Conse4L*nty, I do not 8xwess an opnim on ¥iÈwgl¥en by fimnixal ststements. and In p8rtKulor. I exwess no OpInt￿ as lo *fiether the finanr4al st8*ments give a Idr ¥￿01%￿* *ltalrs oflhe