Congratulations to Dr Laura Polverari on being awarded First Prize by the EU Committee of the Regions in their 2011 Thesis Competition!
Since 1996, the Committee has awarded an annual prize for doctoral theses focusing on the local and regional dimension of the EU. This year, the competition received an exceptionally high number of entries from across Europe with 170 doctoral theses being submitted of which 20 were shortlisted.
The selection board, chaired by Mr Marek Woźniak, President of the Polish Delegation to the Committee of the Regions, ultimately selected the five best theses and awarded the First Prize to Laura Polverari for her thesis "Uncovering accountability in devolved regional policy - a comparative analysis of the evolution of European cohesion policy governance and implementation in Tuscany and Scotland following devolution".
Laura was presented with the award by Mercedes Bresso, President of the Committee of the Regions, at a ceremony in Brussels on 14 December 2011.