!!Sierd Cloetingh elected as Foreign Member of the Academy of Lisbon
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[Sierd Cloetingh|Member/Cloetingh_Sierd], Former President of Academia Europaea and presently Chair of the International Advisory Group of our Academy, has been elected as Foreign Member of the [Academy of Lisbon|https://www.acad-ciencias.pt/eng] established in 1779. At the occasion of his election and the celebration of the 1974 Portuguese revolution, now 50 years ago, he gave a keynote lecture at the Academy of Lisbon on academic freedom and the role of academies in a European context.__
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