[Opt-Net] EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2024

[Sarah Fores]

Apologies for cross-posting.

EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2024
Sponsored by Gurobi Optimization
https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa

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.

THE PRIZE

The prize consists of a certificate and reward of  €3,000 shared between
the representatives of the winning application.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

All interested candidates 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, field of application and/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 include
a document which explicitly states, for each of the criteria below, how the
application meets that criterion. This document may be a summary document,
pointing towards evidence contained in other documents submitted or
referenced as part of the application; or it may form the main body of the
application if that is more appropriate. The first full implementation
(that is, not counting piloting or prototyping) must be long enough ago to
allow for convincing assessment of realised benefits, but we would normally
expect the end-point of the authors' contribution to the project to be not
more than 4 years ago. 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.

The criteria for the evaluation of the submissions are:

the real impact on practice,
the scientific quality of the application,
the relevance to Operational Research,
the appreciation by the organisation involved with the application,
the originality in methodology, implementations and/or field of application.

A letter or other evidence of appreciation by the organisation or
organisations that made use of the work described is essential, and will
form part of the assessment.

The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work in a
special session at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research in
Copenhagen. There is no registration fee for one representative of each of
the finalist presentations. 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 EURO 2024 Conference.

Applications should be submitted (as a zip file or equivalent single
submission) online
https://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2024/registration.php by the
deadline of January 31, 2024.

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Dr Sarah Fores, FORS
Manager of EURO
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