The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)

EURO Excellence in Practice Award
In 1995 EURO introduced the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA) for outstanding accomplishments in the practice of OR. All interested authors are invited to submit a description of an application of OR with a real impact on practice, with original features, whether in methodology, application or implementation. A short-list of finalists are invited to present their work in a special session of the EURO-k Conference. The winner is determined by the jury at the end of the special session and is announced by the chair of the jury during the closing session of the EURO-k Conference. Only one award may be made on each occasion.

PURPOSE
The purposes of the competition are to:
• recognise outstanding accomplishments in the practice of OR,
• attract more application-oriented papers to EURO-k Conferences,
• promote the practice of OR in general.

Call for Applications for the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2018
Jury of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2018
• Ulrich Dorndorf (Germany) – chair
• Erik Demeulemeester (Belgium)
• John Poppelaars (The Netherlands)
• TBC
• Adam Ouorou (France)

THE PRIZE
• a certificate of excellence in OR practice for each author of the paper
• an amount of €3,000 shared between the authors.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
1. All interested authors are invited to submit a detailed description of an application of OR with a real impact on practice, which has original features, whether in methodology, application 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 which 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.
2. The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are:
o real impact on practice,
o scientific quality,
o relevance to Operational Research,
o appreciation by the organisation involved with the application,
o originality in methodology, implementations and/ or field of application.
Letters of appreciation are important.
3. The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work in a special session at the 29th European Conference on Operational Research in Valencia. There is no registration fee for one author of each of the finalist presentations. The winner will be determined by the jury at the end of the special session and will be announced by the chair of the jury during the closing session of the EURO 2018 Conference.
4. Applications should be submitted online http://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2018/registration.php before January 31, 2018.

https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa

The deadline for submitting material online is 31 January 2018.
The jury chair and contact is
Professor Ulrich Dorndorf