Euclid has been launched in July 2023 with the first internal Data Release DR1 planned for December 2024. Although Euclid has been optimized for dark energy surveys, a huge dataset of AGN will be detected already in the first year of observations. However, DR1 will not include an official catalog of AGN, and the Euclid pipelines to perform spectroscopic and photometric analysis (including SED fitting) have been optimized for normal galaxies, leaving AGN as “contaminants”. The goal of this project is to study optimal AGN selection criteria by using spectroscopy and/or photometry and AGN SED fitting techniques to be ready for to create the first Euclid DR1 catalog of AGN and AGN physical parameters.
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