This prestigious award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations in Operational Research defended in 2025 at universities located in EURO member countries. Applicants must be members of a EURO member society.
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:
No nomination will be considered without these items.
Please check the guidelines at: 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.
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.