Call for Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Project Evaluation will take place in Guimarães, Portugal, June 26-27, 2014.

Participants who wish to present a paper should sent their extended abstract by 28 February 2014 to icopev@dps.uminho.pt. Abstracts should be sent on a PDF or Word file and should not exceed 5000 characters.
Please ensure to include:

  • the conference topic the abstract is intended for
  • the proposed title for the paper
  • the names, email addresses and affiliations of all authors
  • three keywords.

Conference extended abstracts will be Blind Peer Reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee and/or by other colleagues with strong expertise in the area. The authors of accepted extended abstracts will then be invited to send the full papers to be included in the Conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will also be submitted to Thomson Reuters for indexing in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science).

If accepted for publication, the paper must be presented in the Conference by at least one of the authors in an oral or poster session, depending on the number of papers selected. Each author can present a maximum of two papers.

The conference committee welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions. The language of the conference and of all the published papers will be English.

The proposed papers may be on, but are not limited, to the following topics:

  • Benchmarking
  • Case studies
  • Cost/Benefit analysis
  • Decision support systems
  • Economic impact studies
  • Energy decision making
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Evaluation of strategic projects
  • Externalities in manufacturing industry and services
  • Innovation and technology management
  • Investment appraisal
  • Management accounting
  • Multi-criteria for project evaluation
  • New product development
  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Social and environmental impact assessment
  • Social innovation
  • Sustainable new business models
  • Technology-based projects
  • Research evaluation

Other topics within the main scope of the Conference will also be considered.

Importante Dates


Submission of extended abstract

28 February 2014

Notification of acceptance

16 March 2014

Submission of full paper

30 April 2014

Early registration deadline

9 May 2014