The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize is part of the Barcelona Science Plan, which outlines the city’s commitment to science and ultimately seeks to promote the city as a European capital for research and innovation.
The Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with Academia Europaea’s Barcelona Knowledge Hub (AE-BKH), is holding this prize with annual periodicity with the aim of helping give science greater visibility, as well as promoting, strengthening and boosting the value of excellence in research and its impact on society at European level.
The prize is intended to provide a boost for Barcelona as a European capital for science, supporting scientific knowledge and research in various fields.
The choice of “Hypatia” as the name of the prize is intended to highlight the philosopher and scientist Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 355-415), a woman who was able to combine and transmit all the fields of knowledge of her time and who, for that very reason, was murdered by the forces of ignorance and fanaticism.
- 2018: Lovász László