The recrystallization of cold rolled copper has been investi-gated using both DSC and Vickers microhardness techniques.The activation energy of the recrystallization process wasdetermined by the Kissinger, Ozawa and Boswell models usingthe DSC analysis and compared to that obtained by micro-hardness measurements. From DSC, the average value of theactivation energy was found to be 58 kJ/mol while from themicrohardness measurements, a value of about 52 kJ/mol wasdetermined. The recrystallized fraction curves, as a function oftemperature, obtained by microhardness tests and by DSCanalysis were observed to be very close. The results obtainedin this paper show good agreement of both methods demon-strating that a combined analysis by DSC and by microhard-ness is very efficient for the study of the recrystallization ofcopper.