Best Congress Paper Prize

The Best AESOP Congress Paper competition has been running as part of the AESOP Congresses since 2005.

The objective of the competition is:

to promote and disseminate high-quality congress papers,
to stimulate the willingness of congress participants to submit and present full congress papers of high quality

Papers will be judged according to the following criteria:

relevance to current debates on the chosen topic,
clarity of argument(s),
originality of the approach and the ideas presented,
high methodological quality,
clarity of expression and quality of presentation

The selection of the nominated papers is carried out by a committee.
The AESOP Best Congress Paper Prize Committee consists of the following members:

Tuna Tasan-Kok, Chair (University of Amsterdam)
Mike Raco, Vice Chair (Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)
Sabine Knierbein (Vienna University of Technology)
Jonathan Metzger (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH)
Cristiana Rossignolo (Politecnico di Torino)
Pieter Van den Broeck (Catholic University of Leuven)

The AESOP Council of Representatives has approved Tuna Tasan-Kok as the new Chair of the Best Congress Paper Award Committee. The election was held at the CoRep Meeting in Warsaw, on 31st March 2017.

AESOP wishes to express a word of gratitude to the previous Chair Nikos Karadimitriou (United Kingdom) and to Beata Banachowicz (Poland) and Karel Maier (Czech Republic) who have been working in the Committee for many years and have now stepped down. Their work has been very much appreciated.

AESOP Best Conference Paper 2015

Published at: 18 July 2015

AESOP BEST CONFERENCE PAPER AWARD 2015 goes to

Lukas Gilliard and Alain Thierstein

for the paper Competencies revisited: An educational approach to conceptualise planning as a boundary discipline presented at the Track 3 Responsibilities in Planning Education and Practice, at the AESOP Annual Congress 2015 in Prague.

The AESOP Community warmly congratulates the authors.

2014 AESOP Best Congress Paper Award to Martina Schretzenmayr and Simona Casaulta-Meyer

Published at: 25 November 2014

The Association of European Schools of Planning awarded

Martina Schretzenmayr and Simona Casaulta-Meyer

(Network City and Planning, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

the AESOP Best Congress Paper Award 2014

2012 Best Congress Paper to Anette Spellerberg

Published at: 16 July 2012

Annette Spellerberg (University of Kaiserslautern) for the paper
'Dwellings and Generational Change in owner communities'
presented at the track 11.

BEST CONGRESS PAPER 2010

Published at: 1 January 2011

The Best AESOP Congress Paper competition has been running as part of the AESOP Congresses since 2005. Authors can join the competition by...

BEST CONGRESS PAPER 2007

Published at: 1 January 2008

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