📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – 2025 APORS Young Researcher Best Paper Awards

We are pleased to announce the 2025 APORS Young Researcher Best Paper Awards, an initiative to recognize outstanding young operations research scholars, foster collaboration, and showcase cutting-edge research in the APORS community.

🏆 Award Categories:
1️⃣ Theoretical Research Award – Excellence in theoretical contributions
2️⃣ Applied Practice Award – Impactful applied research achievements
3️⃣ Collaborative Progress Award – Successful cross-border research collaborations

🎖 Award
Each awardee will receive a certificate of recognition. As an exceptional opportunity for academic recognition, prize winners will also be invited to extend the work of their award-winning papers and publish their monographs through Springer. This distinguished platform provides a valuable channel to disseminate research to a broader audience, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in Operational Research.

✅ Eligibility

Entries must be research papers published in a peer-reviewed journal within a specified time frame (typically 2–3 years prior to the award year).

For APORS Young Researcher Best Paper Award 2025, eligible papers are those published in 2022 and 2023.

At least one of the authors must be a member of an APORS member society.

📅 Nomination Deadline: 1 September 2025, 11.59 PM
📧 Send your application to: malaysia.msorsm@gmail.com

📍 Award Presentation: APORS Youth Forum 2025, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
🗓 Date: 29 November 2025

🔗 Let’s promote collaborative exchanges and strengthen academic ties across APORS member societies!