International Balzan Prize Foundation
The International Balzan Prize Foundation’s aim is to promote culture, the sciences, and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace, and fraternity among peoples throughout the world.
The International Balzan Prize Foundation’s aim is to promote culture, the sciences, and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace, and fraternity among peoples throughout the world.
The International Balzan Foundation “Prize” joins the more than 40 European research institutes and academies that have signed the appeal to support academic freedom, a fundamental element of democratic societies, and hopes that the virtuous circle based on the exchange of data and ideas, which for decades has been the basis of scientific progress, continues on its path towards the global improvement of the living conditions of humanity.
Currently, four annual awards are made: two in literature, moral sciences, and the arts; and two in the physical, mathematical, and natural sciences, and in medicine. In 2001, regulations concerning the prizes were changed, and prize winners must now destine half of their awards for research projects carried out preferably by young humanists and scientists.
At intervals of no less than three years, the Balzan Foundation also awards a prize for Humanity, Peace, and Fraternity among Peoples.
The Balzan Foundation acts jointly through two Foundations: one with headquarters in Milan and the other with headquarters in Zurich. At the “Prize” Foundation in Milan, the General Prize Committee, which is composed of eminent European scholars and scientists, chooses the subject areas of the awards and makes the nominations. The “Fund” Foundation in Zurich administers Eugenio Balzan’s estate.
News, facts, appointments, events, and articles about the Prize, the Prizewinners, and the Foundation.
21 November 2024
The Ceremony took place in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic in the majestic setting of the Quirinale Palace
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21 November 2024
BALZAN PRESS KIT NOVEMBER 2024 (Download 5 docx)
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19 July 2024
Restorative Justice; History of Modern and Contemporary Science; Biological Mechanisms of Ageing; Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications (Download Pdf)
Read moreThe Balzan Foundation collects essays, scholarly contributions, and dissertations by its Laureates in books and periodical publications. The series Annual Balzan Lecture is published by Leo S. Olschki of Florence.
Balzan Digital Papers is the online publishing Platform that invites contributions from all academic disciplines while disseminating studies, news, and information from the Balzan Prizewinners.
6 September 2023
“Environmental conflicts and the making of world movements for environmental justice” with an introduction by Alberto Quadrio Curzio [download].
Read more17 April 2023
The eleventh volume of the series of the Annual Balzan Lectures published by Olschki
Read more13 May 2019
Beyond Family Farming: Gendering the Collective: the tenth volume of the series
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Video recordings of major public events organized by the Balzan Foundation
Photo galleries of Balzan Prizewinners from 1961 to the present, taken at awards ceremonies in Rome and Bern.
