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What is CORE Academy?

Advancing Knowledge for Humanity

The International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities (CORE Academy) is an independent, not-for-profit, merit-based academy incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong, with an international scope. Dedicated to advancing serious, forward-looking, and interdisciplinary scholarship across the sciences and humanities, the Academy recognizes excellence in research and intellectual life and fosters international academic cooperation for the benefit of humanity.

International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities

What We Are

CORE Academy brings together a growing international community of scholars and partner institutions from around the world, encompassing Fellows, Corresponding Fellows, Junior Fellows, Affiliated Members, and CORE Partners. As of 2026, the Academy includes more than 250 elected Fellows and more than 600 members across more than 60 countries and regions.

The Academy’s Fellows come from diverse cultures, nationalities, disciplines, and professional backgrounds. They have been elected in recognition of distinction in their respective fields, including the natural sciences, engineering and technology, mathematics and the formal sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Above all, they are recognized for the originality, significance, and wider intellectual value of their contributions to the advancement of knowledge.

Grounded in its regulations and academic procedures, CORE Academy seeks to uphold merit, seriousness, and intellectual distinction in the development of its fellowship and wider scholarly community.

Fellows’ Directory

What We Do

CORE Academy seeks to uphold academic excellence, foster scholarly cooperation, and support interdisciplinary and forward-looking research across the sciences and humanities. Beyond the recognition of scholarly distinction, the Academy also works in three principal ways:

1. Serving as a global platform for scholarship and collaboration, through which scholars may seek academic partnerships, present new findings, engage in serious scholarly debate, explore new ideas, and contribute to innovative responses to pressing real-world challenges.
2. Offering scientific and scholarly expertise, including scientific advice, expert knowledge, and intellectual support, where appropriate, to governments, academic institutions, policymakers, and other public and professional bodies on a wide range of issues, thereby contributing to informed reflection, sound decision-making, and the public good.
3. Building and supporting research infrastructures, including CORE Scientific Centers, joint institutes, laboratories, and affiliated research institutes, that strengthen both theoretical inquiry and practical scientific outcomes, while also fostering the translation and application of research into broader educational, scientific, and societal benefit.

Through these efforts, CORE Academy seeks to connect scholars and institutions across borders, disciplines, and traditions, while advancing forms of knowledge that remain both intellectually rigorous and publicly meaningful.

2024–2025 Highlights

The period 2024–2025 marked an important stage in the Academy's continuing development. During this time, CORE Academy further expanded its international partnerships, strengthened its research-related initiatives, and broadened the reach of its scholarly community. Taken together, these developments reflect an Academy that is steadily deepening its institutional presence while extending its capacity for scholarly cooperation, research development, and international engagement in the years ahead.

Among the most notable developments were the following:

· The launch and continued advancement of the CORE Global Partnership Program, through which the Academy has sought to build a wider worldwide network of scientific and scholarly cooperation, further strengthened in 2025 through high-level engagements and new partnerships across Eurasia.
· The signing of more than 30 cooperation agreements, including memoranda of cooperation, with leading scientific and academic institutions worldwide, including the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratories of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University, international learned societies and associations, and United Nations-affiliated scientific organizations.
· The establishment of two new CORE Scientific Centers, further extending the Academy's support for interdisciplinary research, academic exchange, and innovation-oriented cooperation.
· The expansion of collaboration in frontier areas of artificial intelligence and digital transformation, including the development of CORE AI Centers and related partnerships with institutes and laboratories in relevant fields.
· The welcoming of approximately 80 new Fellows and members, further diversifying and strengthening the Academy’s global scholarly community.
· The continued distinction of the Academy's wider intellectual community, including the global recognition received by Fellow Philippe Aghion, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Prof. Carlos Nobre FCAcad speaks at the Opening Ceremony of the Committee on Forestry and World Forest Week (COFO 2024)

CORE Academy Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in Baku (2024)

Prof. Artem Oganov FCAcad appointed to the Academy's Academic Committee (2025)

Prof. Daya Reddy's Acceptance Letter for His Election as a Fellow of CORE Academy (2025)

Why "CORE"?

The name “CORE” reflects the Academy’s commitment to what is essential and enduring in serious scholarship: rigor in inquiry, openness to dialogue and cooperation, responsibility toward humanity, and excellence in scholarship, science, and education. It also preserves a connection to the Academy’s earlier Chinese expression, “Ke Rui” (科睿), in which ke denotes science, while rui suggests wisdom, insight, and intellectual discernment. Together, these associations speak to the Academy’s aspiration to bring scientific rigor and humane understanding into enduring relation in the advancement of knowledge, and to ensure that knowledge continues to bear responsibly on the wider needs and questions of humanity. In this sense, the name “CORE” speaks not only to the Academy’s origins, but also to its continuing purpose: to sustain a community of scholarship marked by intellectual seriousness, openness, and responsibility across disciplines, cultures, and generations.

Explore CORE Academy

To learn more about the Academy’s fellowship, academic structure, research initiatives, and recent developments, please explore the pages below:

Governance and Organization

CORE Global Partnership Network

Research Initiatives and CORE Scientific Centers

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