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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Dear optnet-subscriber, dear colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">(apologies for cross-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">The coming year EURO will celebrate their 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary at the EURO Conference in Leeds. At this conference there will be several awards to be won,
and one I would like to bring especially to your attention is the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (announcement below). If you have something, or you know someone, you think would be an excellent fit, do not hesitate to apply.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#005693">Call for Applications for the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2025</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">1.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">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 </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/601/guidelines" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005693;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">guidelines</span></a></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">2.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">The criteria for the evaluation of the submissions are:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">§</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">the real impact on practice,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">the scientific quality of the application,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">§</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">the relevance to Operational Research,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">§</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">the appreciation by the organisation involved with the application,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">§</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">the originality in methodology, implementations and/or field of application.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">3.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">The jury selects a short-list of finalists who will present their work in a special session at the 34th European Conference on Operational Research in Leeds.
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
2025 Conference.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">4.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Applications should be submitted (as a zip file or equivalent single submission) online </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2025/registration.php" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#005693;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">https://www.euro-online.org/awards/eepa2025/registration.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal"> by
the deadline of </span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333">January 31, 2025</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Evelien (one of the jury member of this award)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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