On the initiative of Royal Society and other National Academies in Europe, the Academia was founded in 1988 as the functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry.
由皇家学会和其它的欧洲国家的科学院共同发起，欧洲科学院作为代表整体欧洲的科学院于1988年成立，它包含所有的学术领域。