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EURO Summer and Winter Institutes
The series of EURO Summer and Winter Institutes
(ESWIs) was launched
in 1984 at the initiative of J.P. Brans.
Scarcely any other EURO
instrument has had such impact upon
future generations of OR people.
Each ESWI, organized by a
national society, focuses upon a particular
subject.
The basic idea is that around 20 early stage researchers,
who are either PhD students or who have less than two years research
experience since completing a PhD, all having an unpublished
paper within the theme announced, can meet for about two weeks,
present their material, discuss it with others and with a handful
of specially invited senior experts in the field, and finally
prepare a paper to be considered for inclusion in a feature issue
of EJOR. Three ESWIs may be approved in any two year.
Disregarding the senior experts, no one else can participate more
than once in his or her lifetime. Participation in an ESWI should
be regarded as a considerable honour. In other words, the main
objective of an ESWI is to give a limited number of carefully
selected representatives of the next generation a unique opportunity
for establishing a personal network and for addressing an international
audience and thus to create new research groups around the topic
chosen.
EURO regularly solicits proposals from the national societies
to host an ESWI.
Proposals are then reviewed by the EURO Council.
If approved,
EURO provides a substantial contribution towards
all expenses
(room and board, social programme, etc.) "on
location";
the rest is supposed to be provided by the host
society itself or
by gifts solicited by the host society. The
travel costs, however,
must be covered by the participants themselves
unless support can
be obtained, for example from their national
societies. Guidelines
for the organization of ESWI are available
upon request from the
Secretary of EURO.
Each ESWI is announced in the EURO Bulletin,
OR/MS TODAY and similar
newsletters or journals. Applications are
channelled to EURO via
the national societies and the final selection
of participants
is made by the Scientific Committee on the basis of
submitted
papers.
Some of the ESWI held to date have led to the
publication of a
feature issue of EJOR.
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