March 7th, 2009: Prof. Xiang Yu, Director, Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property was granted the membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts during the Festive Plenary Session 2009 of EASA held in Salzburg, Austria.

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts（EASA, based in Salzburg, Austria) receives financial aid from Austria government and relevant departments in Germany and Switzerland. Including 28 Nobel Prize winners, EASA has over 1200 members, from all major research fields, from within Europe and the other regions of the world. For instance, Luc Montagnier (France), winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Peter Gruenberg (Germany), winner of 2007’s Nobel prize in Physics, Edmund S. Phelps (South America), winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, Aaron Ciechanover (Israel), winner of 2004’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ryoji Noyori (Japan), winner of 2001’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Mikhail Gorbatschow (Russia), winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, etc.

The Academy comprises of seven fields of research i.e, Humanities, Medicine, Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences/Law and Economics, Technical and Environmental Sciences, and, World Religions. The other four Chinese members of EASA are: Shen Zhang, Academician of Chinese Academy at the Sciences (Technical and Environmental Sciences ); Fengsheng He, Academician at the China Engineering Academy (Medicine); Kun Gao, Academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese American) (Technical and Environmental Sciences ); and Xinping Zhuo, Faculty Members, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (World Religions).

Prof. Xiang Yu has obtained a lot of outstanding achievements in international research, cooperation and communication. He has been engaged in cooperative research over a long period in Germany and Japan, published a series of research papers in high-level journals from Germany, Britian, Switzerland and Japan, finished research monographs with international counterparts, made reports on a series of important international congresses, and obtained high appraisement from international counterparts.

During this Plenary Session, Prof. Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia, was granted the Protector medal. Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Dr. Dora Bakoyannis, Greek Foreign Minister, were admitted as honorary academicians and awarded honorary medals by Prof. Felix Unger, President, EASA. In 2009, seventy-five scientists were granted to be members of EASA, including Prof. Harald zur Hausen, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine.

EASA has set up branches and departments in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Snow Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Serbia, Latvia, Israel, Jordan, the Kingdom of Macedonia, etc.

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