Workshops, Meetings, and Streams

2022

  • Stream: OR for Development and Developing Countries, EURO 2022,  Espoo, Finland, July 3 – 6, 2022.
  • Session @ EURO 2022: AI in South African Economic Development.
  • Session @ EURO 2022: The 2022 EWG-ORD Workshop.
  • Info on our session: URL

2020

  • Workshop: Data Technologies and Analytics for Sustainable Development, Virtual Workshop, August 29, 2020. More Info: URL, Book of Abstracts, and Pictures.

2019

  • Streams: OR for Developing Countries, EURO 2019,  Dublin, Ireland, June 23-26, 2019.
  • Workshop: Renewable: Energy, Health, and Sustainability, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, June 20, 2019. More Info: URL and Book of Abstracts.

2018

  • Streams: OR for Developing Countries, EURO 2018,  Valencia, Spain, July 8-11, 2018.
  • Workshop: OR for Sustainable Development: Establishing Policy and Measuring Goal Attainment, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, July 5-6, 2018. More Info: URL and Book of Abstracts.

2017

  • Workshop on Impacting Development, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada, July 13-14, 2017. The workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD. Click here for a Report.

2016

  • Workshop on Constructing Pathways to Advanced Societies through OR, Mexico City, Mexico, June 9-10, 2016. The workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD. Click here for a Report.
  • Streams: OR for Development and Developing Countries, Sustainable Living: Cognitive, Social, Economical, Ecological and World View, and Optimization for Sustainable Development, EURO 2016,  Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, June 30-July, 1 2016.
  • Workshop:  Highlighting a Decade of Work on OR for Development,  Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, June 30-July 1, 2016. Click here for a report. A EURO 2016 Satellite event.

2015

  • Workshop on Operations Research: Enabling Good Governance, North Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 3- 4, 2015. The workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD. Click here for a Report.
  • Streams: OR for Developing Countries, EURO 2015,  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, July 12-15, 2015.
  • Workshop:  Uplifting Living Conditions,  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, July 9-10, 2015. A EURO 2015 Satellite event.

2014

  • Joint workshop on Operational Research for Development, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, July 10-11, 2014. The workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD.  Click here for a report.

2013

  • Workshop on Operations Research: Addressing Issues of Development, Rome, Italy, June 30 – July 4, 2013. The workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD. Click here for a Report.

2012

  • Workshop on Problem Structuring Methods, Djerba Island, Tunisia, October 12-13, 2012. FIRST Workshop was held as a joint undertaking of the International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD), an International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) initiative, and EWG-ORD. Click here for a Report.
  • EWG-ORD Ph.D. Workshop: Times of Economic Crises, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 7, 2012. Click here for a report.

2011

  • Stream: OR for Developing Countries, OR53, Annual Conference of the OR Society of UK, Nottingham, UK, September 5-8, 2011.
  • Streams at IFORS 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-15, 2011.
  • OR for Development Prize, IFORS 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-15, 2011.

2010

  • Workshop on OR for Developing Countries – Young Researchers and Ph.D. Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10, 2010.
  • State-of-the-Art Workshop – Mutual session of special researchers of several Euro working groups OR for Development, Ethics, Decision Making, Methodology of Societal Complexity and others, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11, 2010.
  • Streams at EURO XXIV 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010. A joint meeting with several EURO Working Groups: ORD, Ethics, and EUROMSC.

2009

  • Workshop on OR for Developing Countries – Young Researchers and Ph.D. Symposium, University of Applied Sciences, Remagen, Germany, July 4, 2009.
  • State-of-the-Art Workshop – Mutual session of special researchers of several Euro working groups OR for Development, Ethics, Decision Making, Methodology of Societal Complexity and others, University of Applied Sciences, Remagen, Germany, July 5, 2009.
  • Streams at EURO XXIII 2009, Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009.
  • International Programme Committee of EURO Mini-Conference Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 30 – October 3, 2009.
  • Regional Meeting on Water in the Mediterranean Basin, October 9-11, 2008, Near East University, Northern Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus.

2008

  • Stream: OR for Development Countries and Community OR, OR50, University of York, September 9-11, 2008
  • OR for Development Prize, IFORS 2008, Sandton, South Africa, July 13-18, 2009. Details: click here.
  • Workshop: Complex Societal Problems, Sustainable Living and Development, May 16, 2008, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

2007

  • First Ph.D. Workshop in OR for Development, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2007
  • Hosted the first collaborative conference with the OR Society of South Africa (ORSSA) and the Operational Research Practice in Africa Group (ORPA)

2006

Formation of the European Working Group on Operations Research for Development at the EURO XXI in Reykjavik, Iceland (July 2-5, 2006)