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| EURO Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | EURO Conference |
| Formation | 1970s |
| Type | Professional conference |
| Headquarters | Europe |
| Region served | Europe, Global |
| Leader title | President |
EURO Conference The EURO Conference is a recurring international meeting associated with the Association of European Operational Research Societies and its member national operational research societies that gathers practitioners and researchers in operations research and management science. It serves as a focal point for dissemination of advances connected to institutions such as Erasmus University Rotterdam, London School of Economics, INSEAD, ETH Zurich, and Technical University of Munich, attracting delegates from European Commission, NATO, United Nations, and industrial partners like Siemens, IBM, Google, and Amazon. The conference has links with landmark events and organizations including IFORS, EURO-k, CORS, OR Society, Royal Statistical Society, and research centers such as Lancaster University Management School and Imperial College London.
The conference emerged during the expansion of operations research in post‑war Europe alongside institutions like CERN and networks formed after Treaty of Rome. Early meetings connected scholars from Université Paris Dauphine, RWTH Aachen University, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Bologna, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid and featured speakers with affiliations to Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. Over decades, the program reflected influences from historical events such as the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Maastricht Treaty, and the enlargement of the European Union, shifting site choices among cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Lisbon, Vienna, Prague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Budapest.
Governance typically involves elected officers drawn from national societies including Society for Operational Research, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Operations Research, Société française de recherche opérationnelle, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Operativa, and Polski Związek Inżynierii Produkcji. Committees coordinate with academic departments such as Universität Wien, KU Leuven, University of Amsterdam, Trinity College Dublin, University of Manchester, and University of Warwick. Sponsorship and oversight often include agencies like European Research Council, Horizon 2020, Innovate UK, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and funding bodies like Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Organizing committees liaise with publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.
Annual and biennial meetings have been held in venues spanning Universität Zürich, University of Barcelona, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Ljubljana, Universidad de Sevilla, University of Porto, Ghent University, University of Granada, Masaryk University, and University of Ljubljana. Special sessions have been co‑organized with events such as International Conference on Operations Research, European Symposium on Algorithms, Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, INFORMS Annual Meeting, and themed workshops linked to CERN OpenLab, ESA, EIT Digital, and ECMWF. Satellite meetings collaborate with industry forums including Dublin Tech Summit and policy fora like European Council briefings.
Programmatic themes reflect methods and applications from linear programming, integer programming, stochastic optimization, network flows, and game theory to applied domains in transportation planning, healthcare management, supply chain management, energy systems, telecommunications planning, and financial engineering. Cross‑disciplinary panels invoke expertise from statistics, computer science, machine learning, control theory, and econometrics with contributions by researchers affiliated to Google DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and academic labs at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, École Polytechnique, and Politecnico di Torino.
Proceedings have been published by houses such as Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley and appear in journals like European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Management Science, and INFORMS Journal on Computing. Awards presented at meetings are often named in honor of figures linked to John von Neumann, George Dantzig, Kurt Gödel, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Ada Lovelace and include young researcher prizes, best paper awards, and recognition by bodies like IFORS and EU Horizon Prize juries.
Participants include academics from University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Zurich, University of Bologna, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and practitioners from Airbus, BMW, Renault, Thales Group, Accenture, McKinsey & Company, and PwC. Student engagement is fostered through chapters at ETH Zurich Student Chapter, TU Delft Student Chapter, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Student Chapter, and collaborations with societies like Austrian Operations Research Society and Swiss Society for Operations Research.
The conference influenced policy advising at European Commission DG MOVE, DG CONNECT, World Health Organization, and World Bank projects through applied modelling and optimization. Criticism has arisen concerning accessibility relative to paywalled proceedings from Elsevier and Wiley, geographical concentration in Western Europe, and perceived dominance of large institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and ETH Zurich in program committees. Debates reference open science advocates linked to Plan S and discussions involving SPARC Europe, Creative Commons, and funders like Wellcome Trust.
Category:Conferences in Europe