Euro is the "Association of European Operational Research Societies"
within IFORS, the "International Federation of Operational Research Societies"
EURO Summer and Winter Institutes
Next events
- Maritime Logistics (Bremen, Germany, June 3 -15, 2012)
- Cutting and Packing (Porto, Portugal, July 16 -27, 2012)
- ELAVIO 2012 (Vale dos Vinhedos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil February 5-10, 2012)
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who are either PhD students or who have less than two years research experience since completing a PhD, all having an unpublished paper within the theme announced, can meet for about two weeks, present their material, discuss it with others and with a handful of specially invited senior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.
