At the Electoral Assembly of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), held on Thursday, 21 May 2026, Professor Šime Demo, PhD, Full Professor at the Department of Croatian Latinity of the Faculty of Croatian Studies, was elected to the Academy's Department of Philological Sciences as one of thirteen new associate members.

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is Croatia's national academy, established in Zagreb in 1866. Its membership comprises 141 full members, 107 corresponding members and 81 associate members, organised into nine departments.

According to the Academy's Statute, associate membership is generally granted to younger scholars or artists who are citizens of the Republic of Croatia, whose achievements in their respective scientific or artistic fields are widely recognised, and who are expected to contribute to a particular area of the Academy's activities.