EURO Prize for OR for the Common Good 2024
https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1668/prize-for-or-for-the-common-good-epocg
PURPOSE
The purposes of the competition are to:
* recognise outstanding contributions to addressing global challenges
through the application of OR,
* raise awareness of the important role OR can play in contributing to
global challenges such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
THE PRIZE
The prize consists of a certificate and reward of €3,000 shared between
the representatives of the winning application.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
All interested candidates are invited to submit a detailed description of
an outstanding contribution to addressing global challenges through the
application of OR. This application will demonstrate a real impact on
society for the common good, which has original features, whether in
methodology, field of application and/or implementation. This may be in the
form of a paper written for publication (although not necessarily published
at the time of submission), a client report, or other appropriate
documentation. The documentation must describe the work in a way that
illustrates how it meets the criteria outlined below. The age limit for
published papers is four years. The work must not have been submitted
concurrently to another competition. The application is open to OR
specialists from any part of the world. Please also check the guidelines.
The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:
real impact on society for the common good,
scientific quality,
appreciation by the organisation involved with the application,
originality in methodology, implementations and/or field of application.
Letters of appreciation by the organization involved with the application
are important.
The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work in a
special session at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research in
Copenhagen. There is no registration fee for one representative of each of
the finalist presentations. The winner will be determined by the jury at
the end of the special session(s) and will be announced by the chair of the
jury during the closing session of the EURO 2024 Conference.
Applications should be submitted (as a zip file or equivalent single
submission) online
https://www.euro-online.org/awards/epocg2024/registration.php by the
deadline of January 31, 2024.
--
Dr Sarah Fores, FORS
Manager of EURO
<http://goog_1482421387/>
<https://euro2024cph.dk/>
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