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EURO PhD Summer School on MCDA\/MCDM 2022, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2022 EURO PhD Summer School on MCDA\/MCDM took place at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, on July 18-29, 2022. It was organized by \u00d6zlem Karsu (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Murat K\u00f6ksalan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). This was the 14th of a long line of summer schools, the first of which was held in 1983. The summer school was originally scheduled to be organized by G\u00fcl\u015fah Karakaya and Banu Lokman at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey for 2020 and had to be postponed twice due to the pandemic. We are indebted to G\u00fcl\u015fah Karakaya and Banu Lokman for their initial setup that made our job easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the summer schools, PhD students get an in-depth understanding of the theoretical and applied aspects of MCDA\/MCDM, interacting with some of the top scholars in the area, and conducting hands-on exercises\/cases. This year, 43 students were accepted and 39 ended up attending. Participants are either currently pursuing a graduate degree in, or have recently graduated from programs in 14 different countries: Brazil (1), Denmark (1), Finland (2), France (4), Germany (7), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Netherlands (3), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Turkey (8) and UK (2). 20 of the participants were women and 19 were men. We were delighted with both the diversity and the number of participants under the continuing uncertainties of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topics covered in the summer school (in the order covered) were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n