On 21–22 March 2025, the annual meeting of ERCOM — the EMS Committee for European Research Centres on Mathematics — was hosted by the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) in Paris. The event brought together directors and administrative representatives from leading research centres in mathematics across Europe.

On behalf of the European mathematical community, we congratulate Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton, who have been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award “for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.”

On 28–29 March 2025, the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society met in Protaras, Cyprus, for one of its regular in-person meetings. The session was followed by the annual Presidents Meeting, which brought together the presidents of the EMS corporate member societies and institutions. The EMS warmly thanks the Cyprus Mathematical Society and its President, Gregory Makrides, for their generous hospitality in a beautiful and welcoming setting.

On behalf of the European mathematical community, we congratulate Masaki Kashiwara, who has been awarded the 2025 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, notably the theory of D-modules and the invention of crystal bases.”