2026 William Kapp Prize – Call for Nominations

The EAEPE invites submissions of recently published journal articles for the annual EAEPE William Kapp Prize. The prize is 1000 euros.

The closing date for the 2026 EAEPE Kapp Prize competition is April 15, 2026.

To be eligible, submissions must be papers:

  • authored by an EAEPE member of at least 12 months membership at the time of submission (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be an EAEPE member of at least 12 months at the time of submission), and
  • published in a scholarly journal on a theme broadly in accord with the EAEPE’s theoretical perspectives, and
  • be a minimum of 5000 words and not exceed 12000 words, and
  • published in advance access during 2025 (but not yet allocated to a 2026 journal issue) or in a journal issue published since 1 October 2025 or during 2026.

Only one submission per author will be considered.

The author (or at least one co-author) of each submission must commit to attending EAEPE’s 2026 annual conference.

Any member of the EAEPE Council or Trustee of the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED) serving at any time from 1 January 2024 to 1 July 2025 inclusive shall be ineligible to participate, including as a co-author.

A single PDF file should be sent to both EAEPE Prize Coordinators, by April 15, 2026:

  • Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland. E-Mail: [email protected]  
  • Samuel Klebaner, CEPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, [email protected]

Sending your entry to the wrong email address will result in a delay that may cause you to miss the submission deadline. EAEPE will not be held responsible for submissions that are sent to the wrong address.

The EAEPE Council will judge all the EAEPE prize submissions. The Council reserves the right not to award a prize if the entries do not meet the required quality standards. The applicants will be informed by 1st August 2026.

Authors can participate in only one EAEPE Prize competition each year.

The prize will be presented at the Awards Ceremony of the 2026 Annual Conference, and the awardees will be invited to present their work at the Conference.

Here you can download the PDF version of the call.