August Lösch Prize 2012

The City of Heidenheim an der Brenz and the August Lösch Society jointly grant the prestigious August Lösch Prize 2012.
The prize was created in 1971 and first awarded in 1972 by the City of Heidenheim in honour of August Lösch (1906-1945), one of the founders of modern Regional Science, and a former citizen of Heidenheim.
The prize is intended to reward outstanding academic research in the field of Regional Science. The prize carries an award of Euro 4000. Joint recipients will share this amount.
The Society invites the submission of research work written in either German or English. The prize will be presented at a regional science conference to be held in Kiel in June 2012. Au-gust Lösch spent most of his academic career at the Kiel Institute, until his early death in 1945.
The winner, or winners, will be selected by an international committee headed by Johannes Bröcker, University of Kiel, Germany.

The deadline for submission is March 15th, 2012.

See invitation of submissions.

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