EAIR Outstanding Paper Award & EAIR Best Poster Award

Every year EAIR is offering the opportunity for young (35 or younger at the time of the Forum) professionals and academics working in universities, polytechnics and other higher education institutions - either in university administration, or in academic departments with particular research interests in management issues - to win the 'EAIR Outstanding Paper Award'. This paper should be written as part of an accepted proposal for the EAIR annual Forum.

In 2011 EAIR instigated the 'EAIR Best Poster Award'. The winner of this award is chosen by vote of all EAIR Forum participants.

The prize consists of a certificate and a yearlong subscription to a journal from the Routledge list of journals for higher education.

The 2012 jury of the 'EAIR Outstanding Paper Award' is formed by Dr Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen from NIFU, Oslo, Norway / member of the EAIR Executive Committee and Dr James Williams from Birmingham City University, United Kingdom / member of the EAIR Executive Committee.

The 2011 jury decided not to award the prize for the 2011 'EAIR Best Paper Award'.

The EAIR Warsaw Forum 2011 participants awarded the EAIR Best Poster Award 2011 to Dr. Antigoni Papadimitriou from the Aristotle University Thessaloniki Greece with the poster titled: "Quality management in Greek higher education: a challenging issue"

Previous Winners of the EAIR Best Paper Award are:

2010:
Ms Merridy Wilson-Strydom from the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
with her paper titled: "Traversing the chasm from school to university in South Africa: a student perspective", submitted in Track 2 'The Experience of Students / Learners' and

Ms Yuxin Tu and her co-Author Dr Creso M. Sá, both from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada with their paper titled: "Universities and student interactions with civil society: empirical findings from China", submitted in Track 2 'The Experience of Students / Learners'.

2009:
Dr Maarja Beerkens from the University of Twente, CHEPS in the Netherlands
with her paper titled: "The effect of research management policies on academic productivity: evidence from Australia" and

Mr Lukas Bischof and his co-Authors Ms Julie Kraft, Messrs Marcel Carasco and Jan Vogt, all students at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau), Germany
with their paper titled: "Community Organising as an instrument for bottom-up quality development at University of Freiburg: a student experience"

2008:
Mr Christian Huber from the University of Innsbruck, Austria
with his paper titled:"Risks and Risk-based Regulation in Higher Education"

Find the criteria here.

EAIR Award for Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education, Policy and Practice

EAIR established the 'EAIR Award for Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Research, Policy and Practice' in 2005. The award is designed to recognise the contribution of those who have had an impact internationally, through research that has informed policy and practice in higher education. At the suggestion of the EAIR President, the Executive Committee selects appropriate recipients and the award will be presented by the President of the Association.

The 2010 award was presented by the President of the Association, Dr Kari Hyppönen, at the EAIR Banquet on 3 September 2010 at the EAIR Forum in Valencia to Professor Dr Jane Knight, of the University of Toronto (Canada).
Jane Knight received this award because of her widely known and appreciated research and professional interests on the international dimension of higher education at the institutional, system, national, and international levels. Her work in over 60 countries with UN Agencies, Universities, Foundations and Professional Organizations helps to bring a comparative, development and international perspective to her research, teaching and policy work. She is the author of numerous articles/chapters/reports on internationalisation concepts and strategies, quality assurance, institutional management, mobility, cross-border education, trade and capacity building.

The inaugural award was presented by the President of the Association, Professor José-Ginés Mora, at the EAIR Banquet on 30 August 2005 at the EAIR Forum in Riga, Latvia to Professor Ronald Barnett, of the Institute of Education, University of London (United Kingdom). Ron Barnett received the award because he has contributed hugely to the debate about the nature and direction of higher education through his research and copious and extensively-cited books.

The 2nd award was presented by the President of the Association, Professor José-Ginés Mora, at the EAIR Banquet on 28 August 2007 at the EAIR Forum Innsbruck, Austria to Dr Guy Haug, Brussels (Belgium). Guy Haug is widely considered an expert on higher education policy in an international setting and was given the award in recognition of his promotion of the process of higher education reform that is going on in Europe right at this time.