Formal goals The Epainos Award/Young Regional Scientist (EAYRS) Sessions are organized each year at the ERSA Conference, and provide a special platform for paper presentations by young scientists with an in-depth discussion of the papers by senior scholars in the field. The EAYRS sessions are organized according to the following two principles: Offering more time for each presentation, in particular to increase the amount of feedback a young scientist receives on her or his paper, and to (...)
2012 Prize Winner: Lionel Védrine - Allocation of European structural funds and strategic interactions: is there a yardstick competition between regions in the public aid for development? Epainos 2012 Award speech Epainos 2012 Winning Paper - Lionel Védrine from INRA-UMR CESAER in France Epainos 2012 Runners Up Heike Delfmann, from the University of Groningen, with the paper "Population change and new firm formation in urban and rural regions" Ulrich Zierahn, from the Hamburg (...)