The EURO Gold Medal is the highest distinction within OR in Europe. It is conferred on a prominent person or institution, for an outstanding contribution to Operational Research. Although recent work should not be excluded, care should be taken to allow the contribution to stand the test of time. The potential prize recipient should have a recognized stature in the European OR community. Significance, innovation, depth, and scientific excellence should be stressed. The award is not only a significant honour for the laureate personally, but also important for the general promotion of OR as leading scholars and their contributions are made better known via the Medal.

Jury of the EURO Gold Medal 2016:

• Berç Rustem (United Kingdom) – Chair,
• Kaisa Miettinen (Finland),
• Luk Van Wassenhove (France),
• Eugene Levner (Israel),
• Maria Grazia Speranza (Italy).

When and Where?:
► The EURO Gold Medal 2016 will be awarded at the opening session (Sunday, July 3, 2016: 16:30-18:00; Building CW, Aula) and the laureate(s) will give a speech.

Most Recent Laureates:

• 2015: Alexander Schrijver (The Netherlands),
• 2013: Panos M. Pardols (Greece),
• 2012: Boris Polyak (Russia),
• 2010: Rolf Möhring (Germany).

The EURO Distinguished Service Medal is awarded for recognition of distinguished service to the Association of European OR Societies (EURO) and to the profession of OR.

Jury of the EURO Distinguished Service Medal 2016:

• Valerie Belton (United Kingdom) – Chair ,
• Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (Austria),
• Luka Neralic (Croatia),
• Roman Słowiński (Poland),
• Jacques Teghem (Belgium).

When and Where?:
► The EURO Distinguished Service Medal 2016 will be officially delivered at the opening session (Sunday, July 3, 2016: 16:30-18:00, Building CW, ground floor, Aula).

Most Recent Laureates:

• 2015: Bernard Roy (France),
• 2013: Theodor Stewart (South Africa),
• 2012: Dominique de Werra (Switzerland),
• 2010: Maurice Shutler (UK).

The purpose of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award is to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis in Operational Research defended in the countries having an OR society that is member of EURO.

Jury of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016:

• Ahti Salo (Finland) – Chair,
• Richard Hartl (Austria),
• Bernardo Almada-Lobo (Portugal),
• Karl Schmedders (Switzerland),
• Emilio Carrizosa (Spain).

When and Where?:
► Three finalists will present their work at a special session during the conference (Tuesday, July 5, 2016: 10:30-12:00; Building CW, 1st floor, Room 123).
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016 will be awarded at the closing session (Wednesday, July 6, 2016: 16:00-17:45; Building CW, ground floor, Aula).

Finalists of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016:

• Ruth Domínquez Martin: Planning and Operations in Fully Renewable Electric Energy Systems,
• Raca Todosijević: Theoretical and Practical Contributions on Scatter Search, Variable Neighbourhood Search and Matheuristics for 0-1 Mixed Integer Programs,
• Jørgen Thorlund Haahr: Reactive Robustness and Integrated Approaches for Railway Optimization Problems.

Most Recent Laureates:

• 2015: Joachim Arts (The Netherlands),
• 2013: Christian Raack (Germany),
• 2012: Carolina Osorio (Switzerland),
• 2010: Claudia D’Ambrosio (Italy).

For details on the EDDA finalists, visit the EURO web-site.

The EURO Excellence in Practice Award, sponsored by IBM, is for the submission and presentation describing an application of Operational Research in practice. The criteria for the evaluation of the papers are: scientific quality, relevance to Operational Research, originality in methodology, implementations and/or field of application, a real impact on practice, and appreciation by the organisation involved with the application.

Jury of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016:

• Ton G. de Kok (The Netherlands) – Chair,
• Ulrich Dorndorf (Germany),
• Erik Demeulemeester (Belgium),
• Marco Laumanns (Switzerland),
• Markus Bohlin (Sweden).

When and Where?:
► Six finalists will present their work at special sessions during the conference (Monday, July 4, 2016: 12:30-14:00 and 14:30-16:00; Building CW, 1st floor, Room 123).
The EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016 will be awarded at the closing session (Wednesday, July 6, 2016: 16:00-17:45; Building CW, ground floor, Aula).

Finalists of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2016:

• Kerem Akartunali, Euan Barlow, Matthew Revie, Diclehan Tezcaner-Öztürk, Evangelos Boulougouris, Sandy Day: A Novel Framework of Simulation and Optimisation for Offshore Wind Farm Installation Logistics at SSE and SPR,
• Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hébrard, Pierre Lopez, Gilles Simonin: Scheduling Scientific Experiments for Comet Exploration on the Rosetta/Philae Mission,
• Andreas Fügener, Jens O. Brunner, Armin Podtschaske: Duty and Workstation Rostering Considering Preferences and Fairness: A Case Study at a Department of Anaesthesiology,
• Thorsten Koch, Benjamin Hiller, Marc E. Pfetsch, Lars Schewe: Evaluating Gas Network Capacities,
• Tobias Harks, Felix G. König, Jannik Matuschke, Alexander T. Richter, Jens Schulz: An Integrated Approach to Tactical Transportation Planning,
• Karin Thörnblad: Using Mathematical Optimization for Scheduling Heat Treatment Production.

Most Recent Laureates:

• 2015: Jesse O’Hanley,
• 2013: Andreas Brieden, Steffen Borgwardt, Peter Gritzmann,
• 2012: Mikael Rönnqvist, Patrik Flisberg, Mikael Frisk,
• 2010: Pinar Keskinocak, Faramroze Engineer, Larry Pickering.

For details on the EEPA finalists, visit the EURO web-site.

EURO has three annual awards available for papers published by European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR): best survey paper, best application paper, and best theory/methodology paper.

Jury of the EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper 2016:

• Horst Hamacher (Germany) – Chair,
• Sebastian Lozano (Spain),
• José Fernando Oliveira (Portugal),
• Stein Wallace (Norway),
• Julius Žilinskas (Lithuania).

When and Where?:
► Winners for each category will be announced at the closing session (Wednesday, July 6, 2016: 16:00-17:45; Building CW, ground floor, Aula).

When and Where?:
► The finalists will present their work at special sessions during the conference (Monday, July 4, 2016 and Tuesday, July 5, 2016: 08:30-10:00; Building CW, 1st floor, Room 123).  Winners for different categories will be announced at the closing session (Wednesday, July 6, 2016: 16:00-17:45; Building CW, ground floor, Aula).