As a tribute to Gunther Beyer, one of the founding fathers of EAPS, EAPS awards a prize for the best paper by a young scholar at every EAPS conference. Full single authored papers by scholars who are under 35 years of age at the time of the conference may be nominated for the award at the request of its author.

Nominated papers were judged by a Jury, consisting of the Honorary Presidents of EAPS, on the basis of the following criteria:

• Choice of topic and originality;
• Theoretical foundation underlying or theoretical notions used in the paper;
• Technical competence as displayed in the analysis and presentation of the data;
• Use of professional literature;
• Structure of the paper and quality of its text.

The Award consisted of a cash benefit of 400 euro.

EAPS Gunther Beyer Award at EPC2003 received:

Marc Luy (Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB), Wiesbaden, Germany) for his paper: "Nature or Behaviour? An Answer to the Question of Male Excess Mortality by a Comparison of Monastic and General Population".


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