Euclid will cover over 14000 $deg^{2}$ with two optical and
near-infrared spectro-photometric instruments, and is expected to detect
around ten million active galactic nuclei (AGN). This unique data set
will make a considerable impact on our understanding of galaxy evolution
and AGN. In this work we identify the best colour selection criteria for
AGN, based only on Euclid photometry or including ancillary photometric
observations, such as the data that will be available with the Rubin
legacy survey of space and time (LSST) and observations already
available from Spitzer/IRAC. The analysis is performed for unobscured
AGN, obscured AGN, and composite (AGN and star-forming) objects. We make
use of the spectro-photometric realisations of infrared-selected targets
at all-z (SPRITZ) to create mock catalogues mimicking both the Euclid
Wide Survey (EWS) and the Euclid Deep Survey (EDS). Using these
catalogues we estimate the best colour selection, maximising the
harmonic mean (F1) of completeness and purity. The selection of
unobscured AGN in both Euclid surveys is possible with Euclid photometry
alone with F1=0.22-0.23, which can increase to F1=0.43-0.38 if we limit
at z>0.7. Such selection is improved once the Rubin/LSST filters (a
combination of the u, g, r, or z filters) are considered, reaching
F1=0.84 and 0.86 for the EDS and EWS, respectively. The combination of a
Euclid colour with the [3.6]-[4.5] colour, which is possible only in the
EDS, results in an F1-score of 0.59, improving the results using only
Euclid filters, but worse than the selection combining Euclid and LSST.
The selection of composite ($f_{\rm AGN}$=0.05-0.65 at 8-40 $\mu m$) and
obscured AGN is challenging, with F1