Alumni Prize for Best Thesis

Alumni Prize 2008

Yannis Karagiannis, Greece, SPS, was the winner of the 3rd EUI Alumni Prize for the best interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis on relevant European issues (Alumni Prize) with the thesis entitled 'Preference Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Institutions: The Case of European Competition Policy'.

Each of the EUI departments had nominated the best interdisciplinary thesis on European issues in their respective field (for the period May 2006 - May 2008). They were: Patrycja Dabrowska, Law, Karel Mertens, ECO, Yannis Karagiannis, SPS, and Sakari Saaritsa, HEC.

The four pre-selected theses were examined by the independent jury composed of 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). The Alumni Prize chairman is a former HEC Department Professor and all four alumni are previous Rotary Prize winners.

The Prize and the diplomas (all four nominees receive a diploma) were awarded during the EUI degree-conferring ceremony on Friday, 3 October 2008. In the morning of the same day in the Alumni Prize Seminar, the nominees briefly presented their theses.

The prize comprises a medal designed by Florentine artist Onofrio Pepe, known for his exhibitions on 'Il mito di Europa', and an award of €3,000. It was given to the winner during the AA annual General Assembly on the same day, after the traditional cocktail.

Alumni Prize 2006

The 2nd Alumni Prize was awarded to Valérie Hayaert from the Department of History and Civilization for her thesis ‘Mens Emblematica et Humanisme Juridique: Le cas du Pegma cum narrationibus philosophicis de Pierre Coustau (1555)’ in a ceremony that took place at the degree-conferring ceremony during the alumni weekend on Friday 6 October 2006. See the jury's final report here.

The 2nd Alumni Prize Jury was constituted of: Philippe Schmitter (EUI), Chairman, alumna Susan Senior Nello (University of Siena), ECO, alumnus Hubert Zimmermann (University of Cornell) HEC, alumna Tanja Börzel (Free University of Berlin), SPS, and alumna Monica den Boer (Free University of Amsterdam), LAW.

Alumni Prize 2004

The 1st EUI Alumni Prize for the “best interdisciplinary and/or comparative thesis on European issues” was awarded to alumnus Harm Schepel for his thesis on The Constitution of Private Governance. Product standards in the regulation of integrating markets. See the jury's final report here.

The 1st Alumni Prize Jury was constituted of: Paul De Grauwe, University of Leuven, Chairman, alumnus Roberto Tamborini, ECO, Università di Trento, alumnus Renaud Dehousse, LAW, Sciences Po - Paris, alumnus Simon Hix, SPS, London School of Economics and Political Science, and alumnus Rolf Petri, HEC, Università Ca' Foscari – Venice. The prize comprised an award of €3.000.