Best Student Paper Award

IAEE Best Student Paper Award

IAEE is pleased to announce its 2024 Istanbul Conference Best Student Paper Award Program. A top prize of US$1000 will be given for the best paper in energy economics. Three runner up prizes of US$500 each will also be given. All four winners will receive a waiver of registration fees to the Istanbul IAEE International Conference, June 25-28, 2024. To be considered for the IAEE Best Student Paper Award please follow the guidelines below.

Application Guidelines

To be eligible for consideration, the applicant must:

·        be a full-time student as of the application deadline;

·        be a member of IAEE in good standing. Membership information may be found at http://www.iaee.org/en/membership/

The paper must:

·        be original work completed by the student;

·        not be co-authored by a faculty member or non-student (papers co-authored by fellow students are ok).

·        Not have previously won a prize at an IAEE affiliated conference.

Application materials consist of:

·        Paper abstract; (may be same as abstract submitted to conference for general concurrent session presentation, in case one has been submitted);

·        Paper - double-spaced; 8.5 by 11 inch page setup; 30 pages maximum (any paper that exceeds the page limitation will be subject to disqualification);

·        Letter from applicant verifying he/she meets qualifications (include photocopy of student ID);

·        Letter from applicant's advisor or another faculty member familiar with applicant's research confirming that paper meets qualifications for submission and recommending it for consideration.

Additional Information:

·        If the same paper is submitted for the Best Paper Award and the Student Poster Session and selected as a finalist in both sessions, the student must nominate to appear in one competition or the other but not both.

·        Please note: in order to receive the award, students must attend the conference and present their paper. All travel and accommodation costs associated with attending the conference are the responsibility of the award recipients.

·        The paper and application deadline is February 22, 2024.  Please submit all materials electronically in PDF format to iaee@iaee.org with “Submission for Istanbul Best Student Paper Award” in the subject line.  You will be notified by March 22, 2024 as to the disposition of your paper.

·        For further questions regarding the IAEE Student Paper Award, please contact IAEE Headquarters at iaee@iaee.org 

Further note that if you would like to present your paper at the Conference even if it does not receive a Best Paper Award (and thus get presented in a concurrent session) you must follow the regular paper submission procedures, submitting an abstract by the regular Call for Papers cut-off date.