EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026
The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral
dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a
member of EURO.
We invite you to widely disseminate this announcement.
THE PRIZE
The prize consists of a certificate and reward of €1,000
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The EDDA jury will only consider dissertations in Operational Research
defended between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. The dissertation must
have been defended in a University located in a member country of EURO. The
author of the dissertation must be a member of a member society of EURO.
To be considered, a dissertation should be nominated by the supervisor of
the thesis (one of them in case of multiple supervisors). The supervisor of
the dissertation is asked to provide the jury with the following
information:
*The text of the dissertation;
*An extended abstract (3 to 5 pages) of the dissertation; this abstract
should be written in English and should include precise keywords;
*An itemization of the candidate's contribution to each co-authored article
if the dissertation contains co-authored articles (i.e., published papers
or unpublished manuscripts);
*If the dissertation is not in English, a paper in English which has been
authored or co-authored by the candidate and which describes the core ideas
of the dissertation. This paper should preferably have been published in or
submitted to an international journal;
*Nomination letters (or reports) from two referees selected by the
dissertation supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their
assessment of why the dissertation should win the award;
*An up-to-date CV of the candidate, including a list of publications.
No nomination will be considered without these items. Please also check the
guidelines (https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/242/guidelines).
Since many doctoral dissertations in OR are defended each year only
outstanding pieces of work are expected to be submitted. The jury would
like to remind supervisors that only high-quality theses might have a
chance of winning the award.
Evaluation Criteria. Submissions will be evaluated based on the originality
and significance of the scientific contribution to Operational Research,
methodological soundness and rigor, relevance and potential impact, clarity
and coherence of presentation, and the extent and independence of the
candidate's individual contribution.
The jury selects a shortlist of finalists who will present their work in a
special session at the IFORS Conference in Vienna. There is no registration
fee for each finalist. EURO will also contribute to the travel and
accommodation expenses. 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 IFORS 2026 Conference.
Applications should be submitted (as a zip file or equivalent single
submission) online
https://www.euro-online.org/awards/edda2026/registration.php by the
deadline of January 31, 2026.
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Dr Sarah Fores, FORS
Manager of EURO
<http://goog_1482421387/>
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