How to Organize an OR Workshop: the AIROYoung Experience
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How to Organize an OR Workshop: the AIROYoung Experience Rossana Cavagnini1 · Veronica Dal Sasso2 · Valentina Morandi3 Alice Raffaele4
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Received: 15 June 2020 / Accepted: 28 September 2020 / Published online: 13 November 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract AIROYoung is the Young Researchers Chapter of AIRO (Italian Association of Operations Research). In this work, we focus on the AIROYoung Workshop, an annual event which has been reuniting young researchers constituting this community from 2017. Describing all the editions of the initiative, we highlight the main guidelines we have been following so far to organize it (e.g., no registration fee, grants for free accommodation, no parallel sessions, and a look to sustainability). We analyze surveys filled by participants to present qualitative and quantitative data about our workshops and to show how interest and attendance have increased through the years. We talk about some innovations we have introduced to improve quality (e.g., the PhD school “from young researchers to young researchers” and the pitch talk session). We then share our personal opinion and, last but not least, we invite young researchers to join in the preparation of the next AIROYoung Workshops. Keywords OR community · AIROYoung · Workshop · Organization skills
1 Introduction AIROYoung (AY) is the Young Researchers Chapter of AIRO (Italian Association of Operations Research). AY is not just a web platform [1], but a real concrete community composed of many young researchers which, once a year, meet in a beautiful Italian city. Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-020-00031-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. This article is part of the Topical Collection on The AIROYoung Experience: Operations Research for Young Enthusiasts Valentina Morandi
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After its 4th edition, the AIROYoung Workshop (AYW) has come to be considered an eagerly anticipated annual event, as testified by attendees coming back year after year. But how did it originate? There are a few examples around Europe of events organized by young researchers for young researchers. Maybe the most known is the Student Conference on Operations Research (SCOR) [2], held in Nottingham every 2 years. Recently, the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) has introduced a similar format [3]. AY was launched during the 46th Annual Conference of AIRO in 2016. At that time, the founders had not an initiative like this in mind yet. They only had a rough idea of what AY was meant to be, that is, a way to connect PhD students all over Italy and also from abroad. But within the end of the conference, the enthusiasm spread also to other young researchers. In fact, it is common in Italy to find PhD students in Operations Research (OR) affiliated to different university dep
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