The New Europe Prize for Higher Education and Research, that was awarded in 1993 to Professor Pleşu by a group of six Institutes for Advanced Study (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).