Cash prize of €1,000
We announce the APEEN Young Researcher Award, with a value of €1,000!
This award aims to recognise scientifically relevant work in Energy Economics carried out by young researchers.
If you meet the requirements, submit your paper by 15 February 2026 by email to: premio@apeen.pt.
Regulations:
In partnership with the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH), APEEN held a webinar dedicated to practical approaches for identifying and engaging vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations in the European Union.
The session featured valuable contributions from João Pedro Gouveia and Miguel Macias Sequeira, who addressed key challenges and strategies in tackling energy poverty from research and public policy perspectives. The discussion highlighted the importance of targeted, evidence-based action and of involving different stakeholders in promoting energy justice in Europe.
The webinar also included the APEEN Young Researcher Award 2025 Ceremony, recognising excellence in energy economics research by early-career researchers, and marked the launch of the APEEN Young Researcher Award 2026.
Congratulations to Miguel Macias Sequeira, winner of the APEEN Young Researcher Award 2025, for his outstanding contribution to research on energy poverty and energy economics. APEEN is proud to recognise and support high-quality research carried out by young researchers.
The awarded paper is available at: ScienceDirect
APEEN thanks all speakers, partners and participants for contributing to a rich and insightful discussion.
Cash prize of €1,000
We announce the APEEN Young Researcher Award, with a value of €1,000!
This award aims to recognise scientifically relevant work in Energy Economics carried out by young researchers.
If you meet the requirements, submit your paper by 30 June 2025 by email to: premio@apeen.pt.
Regulations:
8th Annual APEEN Conference
APEEN awarded the prize to Guilherme Luz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon) for the Best presentation by Master’s or PhD students at the 8th APEEN Annual Conference, held on 10 and 11 April 2025, organised by the Department of Management and Economics of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences – UBI and GAPEER, in association with APEEN.
7th APEEN Annual Conference/ EEIC2023
APEEN presented the Young Researcher Award to Pedro Palma at the 7th APEEN Annual Conference/EEIC2023, held on 2 and 3 November 2023 and organised by APEEN and ISEL.
The award carried a cash prize of €1,000.
7th APEEN Annual Conference/ EEIC2023
APEEN awarded the prize to Inês Azevedo for the Best presentation by Master’s or PhD students at the 7th APEEN Annual Conference/EEIC2023, held on 2 and 3 November 2023 and organised by APEEN and ISEL.
Cash prize of €1,000
We announce the APEEN Young Researcher Award, with a value of €1,000!
This award aims to recognise scientifically relevant work in Energy Economics carried out by young researchers.
If you meet the requirements, submit your paper by 20 October 2023 by email to premio@apeen.pt.
8th ME3 Meeting
APEEN awarded the prize to Connor Guilherme for the Best presentation by Master’s or PhD students at the 8th ME3 meeting, held on 8 May 2023 in hybrid format and organised by APEEN, GOVCOPP and IAEE.
The award carried a cash prize of €250. The winning presentation was “A GLOBAL REVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING IN THE ENERGY SECTOR”.
6th APEEN Annual Conference
APEEN presented the Young Researcher Award at the 6th APEEN Annual Conference – Sustainable Energy Challenges, held on 3 and 4 February 2022 in online format.
This award aims to reward highly relevant research on economics and energy produced by young researchers, thereby promoting the growth and renewal of this scientific field in Portugal. The award carries a cash prize of €1,000. Candidates must submit a paper published in a scientific journal, be up to 35 years of age and be an APEEN member.
In 2022 the winner was Marcos Tenente, with the paper entitled “Eco-efficiency assessment of the electricity sector: Evidence from 28 European Union countries”, co-authored with Carla Henriques and Patrícia Pereira da Silva and published in Economic Analysis and Policy.
7th APEEN Annual Conference
4th APEEN Annual Conference
APEEN presented the Young Researcher Award at the 4th APEEN Annual Conference – Energy Demand-Side Management and Electricity Markets, held at the Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, on 17 and 18 October 2019.
This award aims to reward highly relevant research on economics and energy produced by young researchers, thereby promoting the growth and renewal of this scientific field in Portugal. The award carries a cash prize of €1,000. Candidates must submit a paper published in a scientific journal, be up to 35 years of age and be an APEEN member.
In 2019 the winner was Tiago Oliveira, with the paper “Wind power and CO2 emissions in the Irish market”, co-authored with Celeste Varum and Anabela Botelho and published in the Energy Economics journal.
In addition, two IAEE awards were promoted and granted by IAEE, as a way of encouraging more young researchers to join IAEE and APEEN and of fostering more research in Energy Economics. A prize of $300 was awarded for the best paper/presentation at the 6th International Meeting on Environmental and Energy Economics (ME3), on 29 May (University of Aveiro, Portugal), to the student Diogo Santos Pereira for the paper “An econometric approach to assess and design policies and measures for electricity Demand-Side Management: France as a case study”, co-authored with António Cardoso Marques.
The second IAEE Student award, of $350, went to the best paper/presentation at the 4th APEEN Annual Conference 2019. The winning student was Santtu Karhinen, with the paper entitled Emissions reduction by dynamic optimization of distributed energy storage under aggregator’s control, co-authored with Hannu Huuki and Enni Ruokamo.
IAEE and APEEN also covered the APEEN / IAEE membership fee for one year, of $50.00, for each of the 2 award-winning students.
IAEE Student Award – ME3: Diogo Pereira
IAEE Student Award – APEEN Annual Conference: Santtu Karhinen
3rd APEEN Annual Conference
The first prize, of €300, was awarded to Susana Gonçalves, for the work “Energy Consumption, Macroeconomic and Financial effects over CO2 emissions: A European approach”; the second prize, of €200, to Stepanov Ilya, for the work “Conventional Energy Taxes vs. Carbon-Based Incentive Instruments in Emission Regulation”; and the third prize, of €100, to Yvonne Vogt Gwerder for the work “To what extent do market and regulatory factors affect investments in smart grid projects in Europe?”. In addition to the prize, these students receive one year’s membership fee and the possibility of attending free of charge the events organised by the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics – APEEN, based at UA.
At its annual conference APEEN also presented the Young Researcher Award, which aims to reward scientifically relevant work in Energy Economics by young researchers and to promote the growth and renewal of this scientific field in Portugal. The Young Researcher Award has a cash value of €1,000 and candidates must submit a paper published in a scientific journal, be up to 35 years of age and be an APEEN member. In 2018 the winner was João Pedro Gouveia, with the paper “Mining households’ energy data to disclose fuel poverty: Lessons for Southern Europe”.
First prize: Susana Gonçalves
Second prize: Stepanov Ilya
Third prize: Yvonne Vogt Gwerder
The IAEE Student awards, from the International Association for Energy Economics, were presented on 8 February at DEGEIT, University of Aveiro, to 3 Portuguese students for their academic work presented at the ME3 meeting (Meeting of Environmental and Energy Economics) held in September 2017 at UA. The first prize, of €350, was awarded to Pedro Palma, for the work “Thermal Confort in Portuguese Households: Mapping Energy Needs at Civil Parish Level”; the second prize, of €225, to Rita Mendonça, for the work “Assessing the effectiveness of economic instruments to steer urban sprawl: a hedonic pricing simulation modelling approach”; and the third prize, of €125, to Helder Marques for the work “O apoio à decisão na eficiência energética na perspetiva do gestor empresarial”. In addition to the prize, these students receive one year’s membership fee and the possibility of attending free of charge the events organised by the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics – APEEN, based at UA.
First prize: Pedro Palma
Second prize: Rita Mendonça
Third prize: Helder Marques
The Portuguese Association of Energy Economics (APEEN) awarded a prize for the best Young Researcher poster at the forum/conference “Challenges of Active Energy Demand Management: Efficiency and Response” – GAPEER’17, held on 20 and 21 April in Covilhã.
The winner of the competition was the young researcher Tiago Lopes Afonso. The prize was the payment of one year’s APEEN membership fee and registration for the 2017 ANNUAL APEEN CONFERENCE, to be held at ISCTE in Lisbon on 9 May.
The posters were assessed using the following criteria, with equal weighting: clarity of the abstract; clarity of the objective; organisation of the content; overall quality of the work; relevance of the work; visual quality of the poster and answers to questions.
The top three in the APEEN Young Researcher Award:
