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The EWG SustSC supports a Summer School on Sustainable Supply Chains organized by the Department of Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico, July 20th to 24th, Lisbon, Portugal.

This summer school stresses the application of recently developed sustainable supply chain concepts to practical supply chain problems. Participants will address sustainable supply chain topics through lectures, hands-on workshops and Industrial Cases analysis. The presence of Industrial specialists presenting real case studies will allow a deeper and interesting discussion on the industry practice towards sustainable supply chains.

You should participate if you are either student, researcher/academic or industrial professional interested in advancing your knowledge in Sustainable Supply Chains.

For more information:
https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/deg/ver-post/2015-summer-school-program

For registration please consult the web page:
https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/deg/ver-post/2015-summer-school-program

The Summer School is supported by the Department of Engineering and Management of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, by the Euro Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains (EWG-SSC) and by the Portuguese Association of Operational Research (APDIO).
 
We look forward to see you in Lisbon!

The EWG on Sustainable Supply Chains awards the price for an outstanding PhD thesis 2015 in the field of Sustainable Supply Chains to Sónia Raquel de Sousa Neves Cardoso for her thesis on “Design and Planning of Closed-Loop Supply Chains dealing with Uncertainty, Financial Risk and Resilience”.

The thesis was accepted at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, and was supervised by Prof. Ana Paula Ferreira Dias Barbosa Póvoa and Prof. Susana Isabel Carvalho Relvas.

The award will be handed over at the Summer School on Sustainable Supply Chains in July 2015 in Lisbon.

We thank the members of the PhD Award Committee: Erwin van der Laan (chair, RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands), Joao Quariguasi Frota-Neto (University of Bath, UK) and Ruth Carrasco-Gallego (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain).

The award is announced every second year, the next round will be in 2017.

The EURO Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chains is announcing the call for nominations for the best PhD thesis awarded in 2013/2014 in the field of "Sustainable Supply Chains".

The Submission deadline is the 15th of January 2015. More information can be found here

Together with the EURO Working Groups on EURO Working Group on Operations Research in Agriculture and Forest Management (EWGORAFM) and the EURO working Group on Stochastic Programming (EWGSP) we are organizing a workshop on

“Optimization under Uncertainty in Agricultural and Agrifood Industry”.

The Workshop will take place in Lleida (Spain) July 27-29, 2015. Participation is open to all researchers within the related areas interested in OR.

Submissions may be related to Agriculture and Agrifood industry, but also Forestry, Food Industry, Fisheries and Natural Resources, and include the following topics:

• Risk Management in Mathematical Optimization under uncertainty
• Two-stage and multi-stage environments
• Expected Value (EV), Expected result of Expected Value (EEV) and Value of Stochastic Solution (VSS)
• Scenario generation and analysis
• Risk Neutral strategy
• Risk averse strategies.
• Algorithmic approaches.
• Exact and inextact decomposition

Abstracts can be submitted until 31 April 2015 (http://orafm.udl.cat/workshop2015/?q=node/8). Proposals for panels or demo presentations in special sessions are very welcome!

More information can be found here:  http://orafm.udl.cat/workshop2015/

The abstract submission for the EURO conference in Glasgow (July 12-15, 2015) is open. Deadline for Abstracts is January 31st, 2015.

Please submit your abstract via http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/  using the following session IDs:

Stream "Sustainable Supply Chains":

• Reverse Logistics and Closed Loop Supply Chains (ID: 27e83b84)
• Sustainable Food Supply Chains (ID: 72830cf6)
• Design and Management of Sustainable Supply Chains (ID: be9564c3)

Stream "Biomass-based Supply Chains":

• General topics in Biomass-based Supply Chains (ID: 82e68c64)

Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 600 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present ONE paper at the conference.

We will organize a stream on "Sustainable Supply Chains" at the EURO Conference in Glasgow (http://euro2015.org/).
If you are interested inorganizing a session, please contact us at: sustainableSC@om.rwth-aachen.de

Information on the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA) can be found here:
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa

The deadline for submitting material online is 28 February 2015.
The jury chair and contact is Professor Luca Gambardella

Information on the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) can be found here:
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda

The deadline for submitting applications is 28 February 2015.
The jury chair and contact is Professor Hartmut Stadtler