The first European Congress of Mathematics was held in Paris, July 6-10, 1992. It was organised by the Société Mathématique de France (SMF) and the Société Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society.
There were about 1300 participants from 58 countries. The chairman of the Organizing Committee of 1ECM was Max Karoubi (France). He was also the President of the Prize Committee. The Scientific Committee under the presidency of Sir Michael Atiyah (Cambridge, UK) invited 10 plenary lectures.

Vladimir I. Arnold (Moscow, Russia) Vasiliev's theory of discriminants and knots.
Laszlo Babai (Budapest, Hungary) Transparent proofs.
Corrado de Concini (Pisa, Italy) Representations of quantum groups at roots of 1.
Simon Donaldson (Oxford, UK) Gauge theory and four-manifold topology.
Bjorn Engquist (Stockholm, Sweden) Numerical approximations of hyperbolic conservation laws.
Pierre-Louis Lions (Paris, France) On some recent methods in nonlinear partial differential equations.
Werner Müller (Bonn, Germany) Geometry and spectral theory.
David Mumford (Cambridge, USA) Computer vision from a mathematical perspective.
Alain-Sol Sznitman (Zurich, Switzerland) Brownian motion and obstacles.
Michele Vergne (Paris, France) Cohomologie equivariante et formules de caracteres.

Richard Borcherds (UK), Jens Franke (Germany), Alexander Goncharov (Russia), Maxim Kontsevitch (Russia), François Labourie (France), Tomasz Łuczak (Poland), Stefan Müller (Germany), Vladimir Šverák (Czechoslovakia), Gábor Tardos (Hungary), Claire Voisin (France).