Sixth Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2027

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Sixth Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2027. The prize is awarded every two years to recognise the best European doctoral thesis in the field of urbanism.

Candidates may submit any doctoral thesis that has urbanism as the object of research. The thesis must have been written in a European language and must have been presented at a European university between 1 January 2022 and 30 September 2026.

The main objective of the prize is to identify and recognise the most outstanding European PhD theses completed in recent years. EURA warmly encourages its members and wider academic networks to disseminate the call among recent doctoral graduates whose work may merit this distinction.

The award honours the memory of Professor of Urbanism and architect Manuel de Solà-Morales Rubió (1939–2012), who understood urbanism as a creative and intellectual activity committed to improving cities through what he called “persistent research”.

The prize is an academic initiative of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where Manuel de Solà-Morales taught for more than forty years. The Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory (LUB), which he founded in 1969, organises and oversees the award and promotes the dissemination of the selected works.

The deadline for thesis submissions is 30 September 2026.

Read the full call and application details