With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

With the Académie des Sciences in

2013 - 2014

... Awards as supports for scientific diplomacy

Franco-German Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize

The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, with the help of a jury empanelled by the Académie des Sciences, awards this prize

every year to German scientists for the great merit of their work and their contribution to Franco-German scientific cooperation. Conversely,

the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation singles out French scientists on the same criteria.

2013 Laureates: Olivier Eickelberg (right in photo), the director and founder of the Comprehensive

Pneumology Centre in Munich, and Aloïs Fürstner, the director of the Department of Organometallic

Chemistry at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim;

2014 Laureates:Werner Kunz, Head of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and of the Carl-von-Carlowitz Centre of Sustainable

Chemistry at Regensburg University, and Volker Meyer, a researcher at the Department of Economics of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental

Research in Leipzig.

Franco-Dutch Descartes-Huygens Prize

Created in 1995 at the Hague by the French and Dutch governments, this prize is alternately allocated in the fields of science of matter, life

sciences and human and social science. Awarded under the auspices of the Académie des Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy

of Arts and Sciences, it rewards every year two researchers of international level, one being French and the other Dutch, both actively

contributing to bilateral scientific cooperation. Amounting to €46,000 (€23,000 for each party), this prize is especially intended to fund the

laureate’s stay as an invited researcher in the other country.

2013 Laureates (human and social sciences): Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (left in photo), a professor

of private law at the Panthéon-Assas Paris II University, and Caroline van Eck, a professor in the

history of arts and architecture at Leiden University, Netherlands (Prize awarded with support from

the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and

Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France);

2014 Laureates (earth sciences): Ludwik Leibler, the director of the Soft Matter and Chemistry laboratory (ESPCI/CNRS) in Paris, and

Willem Vos, who leads the Complex Photonic System (Mesa

) team at the University of Twente, Netherlands.