Alumni Prize for Best Thesis
The Alumni Prize for 2010 will be awarded on 1 October during the General Assembly of the Alumni Association.
In 2004, the Alumni Association decided to fund a prize for the best interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis on relevant European issues. This Alumni Prize is conferred every two years during the EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony. The prize winner is selected by a jury which is composed of four members representing the EUI disciplines and who are all alumni and distinguished scholars in their fields. The jury chairman is chosen among former EUI Professors. Each of the four EUI departments nominates the best thesis on a topic with interdisciplinary relevance in its field and the jury selects a winner among these nominations. The award comprises a prize of € 3.000, a diploma and a medal designed by the Florentine artist Onofrio Pepe, who is known for his exhibitions on Il mito di Europa (The Myth of Europe). The other nominees are awarded a diploma for having won the contest within their respective departments.
Alumni Prize 2008
Awarded on 3rd October 2008 to Yannis Karagiannis, Ph.D. 2007, Department of Political and Social Science
Thesis title: 'Preference Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Institutions: The Case of European Competition Policy'.
Members of the Jury: Jaime Reis (ICS, Lisbon), chairman, Ana Rute Cardoso, ECO (IZA, Bonn), Michelle Everson, Law (Birkbeck College, University of London), Axel West Pedersen, SPS (NOVA, Oslo) and Wolfgang Kaiser, HEC (Université de Paris I).
Nominees of other disciplines: Patrycja Dabrowska, Law; Karel Mertens, ECO; Sakari Saaritsa, HEC.
Alumni Prize 2006
Awarded on 6 October 2006 to Valérie Hayaert, Ph.D. 2005, Department of History and Civilization
Thesis title: ‘Mens Emblematica et Humanisme Juridique: Le cas du Pegma cum narrationibus philosophicis de Pierre Coustau (1555)’
Members of the Jury: Philippe Schmitter (EUI), Chairman, Susan Senior Nello (University of Siena), ECO, Hubert Zimmermann (University of Cornell) HEC, Tanja Börzel (Free University of Berlin), SPS, and Monica den Boer (Free University of Amsterdam), Law.
Alumni Prize 2004
Awarded on 1st October 2004 to Harm Schepel, Ph.D. 2003, Department of Law
Thesis title: The Constitution of Private Governance. Product standards in the regulation of integrating markets.
Members of the Jury: Paul De Grauwe (University of Leuven) Chairman, Roberto Tamborini, ECO (Università di Trento), Renaud Dehousse, Law (Sciences Po, Paris), Simon Hix, SPS (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Rolf Petri, HEC (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice).
Nominees of other disciplines: Daniela Vuri, ECO, Alana Lentin, SPS, Maud Bracke, HEC