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Steve McQueen award winner Erasmus Prize 2026
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Erasmus Prize 2026 awarded to Steve McQueen

The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the 2026 Erasmus Prize to artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. The theme of this year’s Prize is Ecce Homo, Behold the Human Being. 

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Watch the film about Donna Haraway (Erasmus Prize Laureate 2025) here

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The five winners of the 2025 Research Prizes

Diverse are the gifts of men of genius and many are the different kinds of ages. Let each one reveal the scope of his competence and let no one be envious of another who in keeping with his own ability and style tries to make a useful contribution to the education of all

Erasmus to
Jean de Carondelet
Basel 5th of January 1523

Erasmus Prize 2025 is awarded to Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway and Stine Jensen at Next Nature, Eindhoven
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Erasmus Prize Awarded to Trevor Noah 2023
His Majesty the King

Stichting Praemium Erasmianum

Patron His Majesty the King

The Praemium Erasmianum is a cultural institution active in the fields of humanities, social sciences and the arts. It was founded in 1958 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The Foundation awards the annual Erasmus Prize and organises cultural and academic activities around the award ceremony. The Foundation is motivated by the cultural traditions of Europe and the ideas of Erasmus.

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