RESER Young Researcher Award

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Description

The main objective of the RESER Young Researcher Award is to recognize the academic value of promising young researchers, facilitating the widest diffusion of their research activities within the RESER community and beyond. This award is intended to reinforce the RESER support to young researchers who demonstrate high research skills and strong interests in service-related issues. The award is on an annual basis and grants a maximum of two young researchers with a cash prize of 500 and 300 euros, respectively.

How to apply?

Applicants must be enrolled as PhD students (a.y. 2024-2025) or have presented their PhD thesis dissertation in 2024 or 2023. Applicants must send the following documents to RESER 2025 Secretariat (reser2025@uniroma2.it) by the deadlines indicated for the Annual RESER Conference:

  • Letter of recommendation from PhD Thesis Supervisor
  • English single-authored short paper (according to the Short Paper Template). The same paper MUST be submitted through the RESER 2025 portal; otherwise, the documentation sent to the secretariat will not be considered valid for the award
  •  Applicant’s CV
  •  Applicant’s Picture

Evaluation criteria:

  • Applications will be evaluated by an ad hoc Committee composed of RESER board members
  • The assessment of the papers is based on the following three main aspects: i) the scientific quality, ii) the originality of the research, and iii) the relevance of the research for the service domain

Additional information:

  • The Award recipient(s) will be contacted directly by the RESER, and the paper has to be presented during the Annual RESER Conference
  • The Award recipient(s) will receive visibility on a specific section of the RESER website
  • The Award recipient(s) is required to properly acknowledge the RESER support on his/her personal and/or institutional website and on any published and working version of the paper awarded
  • Winner(s) will be announced during the RESER Gala Dinner

History: The former winners

2023 Sierre

  • Pericles Jose Pires, PhD candidate in Information Management Business School Federal University of Paraná/Brazil MBA Program for his paper entitled  “Axiological Competence by Higher Students’ Users of AI Generative in Brazil: Qualitative Approach”.

2022 Paris

  • Bianca Weber-Lewerenz, from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, for her paper: “The drivers and dynamism of Smart Cities Best Practices implementing innovative technologies for sustainable building life-cycles”.
  • Luciana Oliveira Militão, University of Lille, France and Brasilia University, Brazil, for her paper:  “What is known about multiple actors in the co-production of public services: a literature review”

2021 Madrid

  • Renato Calhau Codá (University of Brasilia)
    for his paper: “Interactive value formation: exploring the literature on the dark side of the service experience from the perspective of value co-destruction (VCD)”
  • Saeed Mousa (Ph.D. student at Lille University)
    for his paper: “Industry 4.0 and Social Innovation: How industry 4.0 affects its social impact on education, labor and healthcare”

2019 Ceuta

  • Nikolay Chichkanov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, for the paper service and Knowledge Coproduction as an Innovation Driver in Knowledge-intensive Business Services
  • Birutė Vilčiauskaitė, Kaunas University of Technology, for the paper Rethinking of older talent’s re-careering trajectories in later life

2018 Gothenburg

  • Maria Raquel Sousa, from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) / DINAMIA’CET-IUL, Portugal, for the paper »An ecoservices retro-feedback contribution to green economy«

2017 Bilbao

  • At this year’s conference, exceptionally, the RESER PhD’s Founders Award was not granted.

2016 Naples

  • Michael Becker and Stephan Klingner, Institut für Angewandte Informatik e.V, Germany, for their paper »Towards method fragments for service engineering«

2015 Copenhagen

  • Kirsy Hyytinen, from VTT, Finland, for her paper “Governance for collaborative development of service and system innovations«
  • Milena Jael Silva Morales from, Grenoble University, France, for her paper ,”L’innovation dans les services publics à l’aide des TICS dans le contexte des smart cities«

2014 Helsinki

  • Puneet Kaur, from Aalto University, Finland, for her paper: »Influencing user participant in Facebook-based brand communities«
  • Mareike Möhlmann, from Hamburg University, Germany, for her paper »Collaborative Consumption – Determinants of Satisfaction and the Likelihood of Using a Sharing Option Again«

2013 Aix en Provence

2012 in Bucharest (Romania)

  • Sen BAO, PHD student in VTT technical research center of Finland, for his paper »The Emerging Service Business in China – An Opportunity and a Challenge to Western Companies«
  • Shamim Bodhanya , PHD student UKZN , South Africa, for the paper »The Challenges of Service Provision and Economic Development in South Africa«, available in Amfiteatrueconomic Review, www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/RevistaDetalii_EN.aspx?Cod=50

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Post Date: September 28, 2019