Bulletin 104, December 98 

The Association of European Operational Research Societies within IFORS

The purpose of the "General Support funds" is to support any activity related to EURO that cannot be covered by other instruments of EURO.

Priority will always be given to :

• bids that give special consideration to the need of students (e.g. organiser of an event related to EURO willing to subsidise the participation of students),
• bids that give special consideration to the need of organisers of OR events in Central and Eastern Europe,
• bids that emanate form a member society of EURO or organisers of EURO sponsored events or organisers of events sponsored by a member society of EURO.

The bids are kept informal. They should however always contain a description of the project and a budget. They should mention the support that has been obtained or sollicited from other sources.

Although bids emanating from individuals (e.g. students willing to attend a Conference closely related to EURO) are, in principal, acceptable they will be given a very low priority. They are approved only in exceptional cases.

Organisers of events receiving General Support funds from EURO are required :

• to publicise the support of EURO in the documents of the Conference,
• to produce a report on the use of the funds no later than 3 months after the event,
• to accompany their report by all original receipts.

Bids for "EURO General Support funds" are examined twice a year on a competitive basis. For 1999 the budget allocated to this instrument is CHF 15'000. We plan to spend half of this money for the second semester of 1999 (bids are not restricted to projects taking place during this period).

For the second semester of 1999, bids should be sent to Alexis Tsoukias, the Secretary of EURO before April 30, 1999.

Contact address

Alexis TSOUKIAS
LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine
Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
F - 75775 PARIS Cedex 16
France

tel : + 33 1 44 05 44 01
fax : + 33 1 44 05 40 91
tsoukias@lamsade.dauphine.fr