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    <p>Dear colleagues,</p>
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      <p>We warmly invite your nominations for the <b>third edition of
          the Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award</b>. This
        prestigious Award recognises excellent PhD dissertations in
        Informatics, empowers emerging Informatics researchers and helps
        bring their work to a broader audience.</p>
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      <p><a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/research/best-dissertation-award.html"
          moz-do-not-send="true"><b>3rd Informatics Europe Best
            Dissertation Award (2025)</b></a><br>
        <b>Nomination Deadline: 2 June 2025<br>
          Prize: EUR 3,000 sponsored by Springer<br>
          Exclusive Opportunity: Invitation to publish in a dedicated
          Springer series</b></p>
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      <p><b>All Informatics Europe members are invited to nominate or
          endorse an outstanding PhD dissertation defended in the
          academic years 2023-2024 or 2024-2025 (on or before December
          31, 2024).</b><br>
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      <p>The Award Committee will evaluate nominations based on:<br>
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        <li>originality of research and methodology</li>
        <li>impact and quality of achieved results</li>
        <li>societal relevance</li>
        <li>clarity and quality of exposition</li>
      </ul>
      <p>Should more than one dissertation reach an equivalent top
        score, the one with the highest societal impact score will be
        selected.</p>
      <p>To expand the reach of outstanding research, the winner will be
        invited to present their work at the <a
          href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html"
          moz-do-not-send="true">European Informatics Leaders Summit</a>
        (ECSS 2025) and to publish their work in a dedicated Springer
        series. If the winning dissertation is already published with an
        ISBN or under copyright protection, the Committee will award the
        publishing opportunity to the best unpublished dissertation
        submitted.</p>
      <p><b>For full details and nominations, please visit the Award <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/research/best-dissertation-award.html"
            moz-do-not-send="true">webpage</a>.</b></p>
      <p>We look forward to receiving your nominations and celebrating
        the next generation of Informatics researchers.</p>
      <p>Best regards,<br>
        Informatics Europe<br>
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