The Academia Europaea's Erasmus Medal is awarded to a European academic who has maintained, over an extended period, an outstanding level of international research, recognized by his or her peers. The medal is awarded at the Academy's annual conference, at which time the laureate gives the annual Erasmus lecture.
Professor Aghion will receive the medal and deliver the accompanying AE-Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus Lecture at the annual conference of the Academia Europaea, to be held in Barcelona on October 26 and 27, 2022.
Founded in 1988, and with over 4,500 members, Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Its members are scientists and academics who collectively aim to promote and propagate excellence in lectures in the humanities, law, economics, social and political sciences, mathematics, medicine and all branches of the natural and technological sciences, throughout the world, in the public interest, and to promote the education of the public of all ages in the aforementioned fields in Europe.
