This year, the award is to be conferred for the 17th time and will be presented in late autumn 2016 at the Global Economy Lecture in Vienna. The award is bestowed on young economists for excellent research on topics of European economic integration and is conferred annually. In 2016, four applicants are eligible to receive a single payment of EUR 3,000 each from an annual total of EUR 12,000.

Conditions for Participation:

• The submitted work shall qualify as scientific and should not exceed approximately 30 pages in length. Preferably, it should be in the form of a working paper or a scientific article or be the result of a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral thesis.
• The submitted work shall deal with the topic of European economic integration.
• Authors shall be under 35 years of age at the date of submission.
• Authors shall be citizens of one of the following countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia or Ukraine.
• The Oesterreichische Nationalbank shall receive the work submitted for this award, by September 16, 2016, and the work shall be sent by e-mail or in hard copy to Ms Eva Gehringer-Wasserbauer, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Foreign Research Division, PO Box 61, 1011 Vienna, Austria. To identify their work as a submission, applicants shall mark the envelope with the reference “Olga Radzyner Award 2016”.

Source: oenb