The Balzan Prizes: Science and Knowledge to Understand and Confront the Challenges of Our Times
BALZAN PRESS KIT SEPTEMBER 2026 (Download docx)
Press releases
The 2025 Balzan Prizewinners
Josiah Ober, Rosalind Krauss, Christophe Salomon, Carl H. June [download press release]
2026 Balzan Prizes to be announced on September in Milan
The Winner of the Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples will also be announced The event will be live-streamed on www.balzan.org
2025 Balzan Prizes: the Subject Descriptions
Classics: Athenian Democracy Revisited; History of Contemporary Art; Atoms and Ultra-Precise Measurement of Time; Gene and Gene-Modified Cell Therapy (Download Pdf)
Appeal to support academic freedom
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 […]
The 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Giorgio and Marilyn Buccellati join Saul Friedlander, Jeffrey Gordon and Alessandra Buonanno/Thibault Damour
The 2020 Balzan Prizes Presented in Rome
Press release 18/11/2021
