The first Prize was presented at the European Combinatorial Conference EUROCOMB'03 held in Prague last September carrying a monetary award of 2500 Euros. The award was funded with the contribution of private companies, DIMATIA and COMBSTRU.
The Prize Committee for this fisrt edition consisted of Jaroslav Nesetril, Chair (Prague), Vera T. Sos (Budapest) and Alexander Schrijver (Amsterdam).
Two prizes were awarded:
One jointly to DANIELA KUHN and DERYK OSTHUS (Germany),
- for extensive collection of results in the core graph theory devoted
to the study of graph minors, random structures, particulary in their
relationship to Hadwiger´s conjecture,
and a second to ALAIN PLAGNE (France),
- for extensive work in combinatorial number theory and for solution of
several open problems employing different techniques on the borderline
of combinatorics and number theory.