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Jan, 24
24

Call for Abstracts: Streams Organized by the EWG on Sustainable Supply Chains at EURO 2024

To promote a high-quality scientific program at the 33rd EURO conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from June 30 to July 3, 2024, we are organizing a stream on Sustainable Supply Chains and a stream on Circular Economy, Remanufacturing and Recycling. We would be happy to see many presentations from the members of the EWG within our streams.

Within the streams, we seek contributions to cover recent advances on the following topics (among others):

  • Sustainable supply chains
  • Bio-based supply chains
  • Sustainable transportation systems
  • Closed-loop supply chains
  • Food supply chains
  • Multi-objective optimization for sustainability
  • Interdisciplinary approaches for sustainability
  • Resource-efficient manufacturing
  • Operational challenges in the circular economy
  • Design, planning and operation of ecosystems
  • Sustainable logistics

Please participate actively by submitting an abstract (max. 1500 characters, including spaces) of your talk via the submission system (https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro33/) using the invitation code a90dc833 for the stream on Sustainable Supply Chains or the invitation code 9331adc6 for the stream on Circular Economy, Remanufacturing and Recycling. Feel free to also invite potentially interested colleagues or students to submit their work.

The submission deadline is March 3, 2024.

We hope to be able to organize many interesting sessions on specific topics based on the abstract submissions. If you are however interested in organizing a special session yourself (consisting of up to 4 presentations) within our Sustainable Supply Chain stream, please contact Karsten Kieckhäfer (karsten.kieckhaefer@fernuni-hagen.de). For the Circular Economy, Remanufacturing and Recycling stream, please contact Renzo Akkerman (renzo.akkerman@wur.nl).

Jan, 24
24

Call for Applications: 2024 EURO Awards

EURO has created several prizes to acknowledge outstanding activities in the development or application of OR, amongst others:

For all prizes, the deadline for submitting material online is January 31, 2024

Jan, 24
24

Season 7 of the Online Seminar Series Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization

Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization is an online seminar series, organized by Emilio Carrizosa (IMUS – Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla) and Dolores Romero Morales (CBS – Copenhagen Business School) with the collaboration of PhD Students Nuria Gómez-Vargas (IMUS) and Thomas Halskov (CBS).

Season 7 of this series includes a number of presentations from leading academics in the field of Data Science and Analytics that will cover important topics such as explainability, fairness, fraud, privacy, etc. Mathematical Modeling and Mathematical Optimization will be at the core of their presentations. In addition, the organizers provide a YOUNG Online Seminar Series “Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization”. In each YOUNG session, three junior academics will show their latest results in this burgeoning area.

The season starts on February 12, 2024. All talks will take place on a Monday between 16.30 and 17.30 CET. For more information, please visit: https://congreso.us.es/mlneedsmo/.

Jan, 24
24

Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award on Sustainable Supply Chains 2023

This 2023 edition of the Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award on Sustainable Supply Chains had two winners, due to the high quality of submissions. The EWG on Sustainable Supply Chains awarded the price for an outstanding PhD Thesis 2023 in the field of Sustainable Supply Chains to

Arne Heinold (University of Kiel, Germany)

for his thesis on

“Emission-oriented management of land-based freight transportation”

and

Lukas Meßmann (University of Augsburg, Germany)

for his thesis on

“Strategic design of environmentally and socially sustainable supply networks”.

We thank the members of the PhD Award Committee:

  • Renzo Akkerman (chair, Wageningen University, The Netherlands),
  • Özgen Karaer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), and
  • Athanasios Rentizelas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece).

The award is named after Jacqueline Bloemhof, one of the pioneers in the field of sustainable supply chain research and one of the founders of our working group.

The award is announced every second year, the next round will be in 2025.

Jan, 24
24

4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains 2023

The 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023), organized by the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains in cooperation with the Chair of Production and Logistics Management at the FernUniversität in Hagen, took place from June 30 to July 1 at the FernUniversität in Hagen. The event was co-sponsored by EURO and the FernUniversität in Hagen.

SustSC 2023 offered the sustainable supply chain community the opportunity to present state-of-the-art developments and to discuss current research challenges in the area. Overall, 54 participants from 14 countries joined the conference. The program involved 29 talks organized in 8 sessions, two keynotes by Carsten Gerhardt from the Circular Valley Foundation and Athanasios Rentizelas from the National Technical University of Athens, the Jacqueline Bloemhof PhD Thesis Award ceremony, and a social dinner at the Faculty Club of the FernUniversität.

A report with more details on the conference is available in the September 2023 Issue of IFORS News.

Jan, 24
24

EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains 2023

From June 25 to June 29, the Chair of Production and Logistics Management at the FernUniversität in Hagen hosted the 2023 EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains. It was organized as a joint event of the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains and the German OR Society (GOR) in cooperation with the Chair of Production and Logistics Management at the FernUniversität in Hagen, and was and co-sponsored by EURO, GOR, and the FernUniversität in Hagen.

The school offered an active forum for 25 PhD students from 10 countries to enhance their knowledge in facilitating Operations Research methods for sustainable supply chain management, especially from a multi-criteria (triple bottom line) and an interdisciplinary (life cycle sustainability assessment, circular economy) perspective.

A report with more details on the PhD school is available in the September 2023 Issue of IFORS News.

Nov, 22
15

Call for Applications: EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains 2023

Date: July 25−29, 2023

Venue: FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

The PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains offers an active forum for PhD students and early career researchers to enhance their knowledge in facilitating Operations Research methods for sustainable supply chain management, especially from a multi-criteria (triple bottom line) and an interdisciplinary (life cycle sustainability assessment, circular economy) perspective. It is organized by the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains (EWG-SSC) in cooperation with the Chair of Production and Logistics Management, FernUniversität in Hagen and co-sponsored by the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), the German OR Society (GOR), and FernUniversität in Hagen.

Target Audience: PhD Students striving to enhance their knowledge in sustainable supply chain management; motivated to develop OR tools that support decision making towards sustainable supply; wanting to discuss and present research ideas on the topic. Motivated early career researchers may also be accepted if places are available.

Program Contents: In-class lectures, tutorials, and supervised training on selected topics at the interface of Operations Research and sustainable supply chains; opportunity to discuss own PhD research with peers and expert (guests) lecturers from the field; supervised work on case studies – solutions developed by participants will be presented in front of an expert panel at the end of the summer school.

Poster presentations at the 4th Conference of the Euro Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023) are highly welcome. SustSC2023 will take place from June 30 to July 1, 2023 in Hagen.

Vacancies & Acceptance: There are 25 seats available. Due to the limited capacity, there is an application process for those that would like to participate. Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously received support from EURO for other PhD schools.

Application: To apply to the EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains, the candidates should be from a EURO member society country, or studying in a EURO member society country, and need to submit the following documents:

  1. Application letter, including:
  • Name, affiliation, and email-address,
  • PhD program you are enrolled in, current stage of studies, as well as your PhD supervisors’ names,
  • Background in Sustainability and in Operations Research, and
  • Motivation to attend the PhD School.
  1. Curriculum Vitae
  2. Recommendation letter from the PhD supervisor

Application deadline: January 22, 2023

Notification of acceptance: End of February, 2023

Fees & Rights: The registration fee is 100 EUR per participant. It will cover accommodation, meals (breakfast, coffee break, lunch, and dinner), conference material, travel within the school activities, and social activities.

  • Accommodation is provided in single- and two-bedroom apartments.
  • Travel costs should be covered by the participants, either by themselves or through external funding.
  • The fee does not include insurance for participants.

Scholarships will be available for PhD students accepted at the EURO PhD School on Sustainable Supply Chains to participate in the 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023).

Contact: For more information, please visit the website of the Summer School (https://e.feu.de/epsinssc) or send an e-mail to eps-sustsc2023@fernuni-hagen.de.

Nov, 22
15

Call for Abstracts: 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023)

Date: June 30−July 1, 2023

Venue: FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

We invite you to submit abstracts for presentations at the 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains (SustSC 2023). It is organized by the EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains (EWG-SSC) in cooperation with the Chair of Production and Logistics Management, FernUniversität in Hagen and co-sponsored by the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) and FernUniversität in Hagen.

Purpose: SustSC 2023 offers the European and international sustainable supply chains community opportunities to present state-of-the-art developments and to discuss current challenges in sustainable supply chains. Researchers and practitioners interested in the implementation of sustainable supply chains are welcome.

Research: We invite works on the state of the research art and innovative approaches for sustainable supply chain management. Presentations should tackle Operations Research methodologies as well as applications to sustainable supply chains.

Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2023

Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2023

Contact: For more information, please visit the website of the Summer School (https://e.feu.de/sustsc2023) or send an e-mail to sustsc2023@fernuni-hagen.de.