Euro is the "Association of European Operational Research Societies"
within IFORS, the "International Federation of Operational Research Societies"
Cooperation with Other Bodies
- IFORS
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As one of the regional groupings of IFORS,
EURO actively participates in the activities of IFORS.
Since 1987, EURO appoints a "EURO Vice-President of IFORS"
for a three-year period. This position was successively held by Jean-Pierre Brans (1989-1991), Jacob
Krarup (1992-1994, Rainer Burkard (1995-1997), Dominique de Werra (1998-2000),
Yannis Siskos (2001-2003), Philippe Vincke (2004-2006). The EURO Vice-President of IFORS reports each year to the EURO Council.
- ALIO
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ALIO
(Associacion Latino-Ibero-Americana de Investigacion Operativa)
is one of the four regional groupings of IFORS.
Once every three years, ALIO and EURO organize a joint
workshop which aims to bring
together researchers from Latin America and Europe and to
stimulate joint activities and discussions
about methods and applications in the field of combinatorial
optimization. Researchers from other countries are obviously
welcome too. Previous ALIO-EURO workshops on Applied
Combinatorial Optimization were held in:
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1989)
- Valparaiso, Chile (1996)
- Erice, Italy (1999)
- Pucon, Chile (2002)
- Paris, France (2005)
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008)
- Porto, Portugal (2011)
- INFORMS
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Since 1982 (with at the time TIMS), EURO has organised in co-operation with
INFORMS the joint
EURO-INFORMS conferences. These belong to the regular series of EURO-k conferences.
In addition, EURO organised the distribution
among its member societies of OR-MS today, the bi-monthly information journal of INFORMS.
Previous EURO-INFORMS conferences were held in:
- Lausanne, Switzerland (1982)
- Paris, France (1988)
- Helsinki, Finland (1992)
- Barcelona, Spain (1997)
- Istanbul, Turkey (2003)
- Rome, Italy (2013)
- Sponsorships
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EURO is from time to time invited to sponsor various meetings.
Such sponsorships do not include any financial commitments but
should be viewed merely as moral support.
