At the biennial conference, the EPSA awards a 500€ prize for the most engaging paper published in EJPS by a graduate student.

For the 2025 Prize, eligible papers were those submitted to EJPS in 2023 and 2024 and accepted for publication, and whose authors were graduate students at the time of submission.

In addition to the announcement of the Prize during the General Assembly, the winner is invited to present the awarded paper at the biennial conference. If necessary (i.e. the winner is not already presenting a paper at the conference), a travel budget is provided and the winner is exempt from registration fees. Eligibility for the prize is independent of submitting a paper to the conference. 

Criteria:

• Constructive and collegial aspect of the main thesis;
• Originality of main thesis, in the sense of how the idea opens novel spaces for discussion, within existing or emerging debates;
• Clarity of argumentative structure;
• Breadth of the literature, in the sense of openness to debates and scholarly productions that goes beyond Anglo-American debates.

The organizers of the EPSA25 Prize were Federica Russo and Edouard Machery. The members of the selection committee were Sylvia Wenmackers, Somogy Varga, Julie Zahle, Sara Green and Marcel Weber.