{"id":391,"date":"2025-10-08T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:23:38","slug":"call-for-phd-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/?page_id=391","title":{"rendered":"Call for PhD Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"391\" class=\"elementor elementor-391\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fbd7fc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7fbd7fc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb68aae elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fb68aae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-605\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward-300x47.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward-1024x160.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward-768x120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward-1536x240.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/phdaward-2048x320.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f37ce55 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f37ce55\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e307789 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e307789\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8afd8c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c8afd8c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e09b514 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e09b514\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>CAiSE&#8217;26 PhD Award: Call for Applications<\/strong><\/h2><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2026 PhD Award is March 20th 2026. The conditions to apply are:<\/p><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>\u00a0Having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS<\/li><li>\u00a0Having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2024)<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2026 via EasyChair:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/my\/conference?conf=caise2026\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/my\/conference?conf=caise2026<\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The application must be a single PDF file containing:<\/p><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>\u00a0A short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members, their evaluation reports, and a list of publications that resulted from the PhD thesis.<\/li><li>\u00a0A support letter from the thesis advisor.<\/li><li>\u00a0The candidate\u2019s defended PhD thesis.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The candidate\u2019s CV.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3956cb7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3956cb7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c3c5ea elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"1c3c5ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59232f3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"59232f3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0f8f86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c0f8f86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><h2><span lang=\"EN-US\">About the Ph.D. Award<\/span><\/h2><\/div><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CAiSE PhD Award is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the field of Information Systems Engineering. The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference, and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer\u2019s printed books collection.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer\u2019s publication conditions are met.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and the CAiSE Program Committee.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-563d50b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"563d50b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Past recipients of the award<\/h2><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Past Recipients of the Award<\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>2025: \u00a0<\/li><li>2024: Glenda Carla Moura Amaral, PhD from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, thesis title \u201cAn Ontology Network in Finance and Economics\u201d<\/li><li>\u00a02023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title \u201cModel, Integrate, Search\u2026 Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/9783031449062\">(link to the forthcoming monograph)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title \u201cRobotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au\/bitstream\/handle\/11343\/297274\/98f9efca-4dd2-eb11-94dc-0050568d0279_manuscript.pdf\">(link to the thesis)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title \u201cCollaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.ut.ee\/items\/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b\">(link to the thesis)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title \u201cEnabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783030661922\">(link to the published monograph)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title \u201cArtifact-driven business process monitoring\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783030324117\">(link to the published monograph)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia), thesis title \u201cIntegrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783030118082\">(link to the published monograph)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title \u201cTraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319897158\">(link to the published monograph)<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a02016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title \u201cManaging the Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4\">(testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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2026<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Notification<\/td><td><strong>May 08,<\/strong> <strong>2026<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ede58c5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ede58c5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69ae2e8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"69ae2e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAiSE&#8217;26 PhD Award: Call for Applications The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2026 PhD Award is March 20th 2026. The conditions to apply are: \u00a0Having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS \u00a0Having successfully defended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caise26.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}