I have had the honour to win the 2011 edition of the Award ‘Rudi Verheyen’, which is yearly granted to an academic whose work has contributed to the development of environmental policy in Flanders. The prize is awarded by the Flemish Minister for Environment and the ‘Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development’ of the University of Antwerp. My doctoral research (2008, K.U.Leuven) on ‘The European Union negotiates multilateral environmental agreements: an analysis of the internal decision-making process’ was considered by the jury as ‘original and breaking fresh ground’. More information on the Award, as well as the press release by Flemish Environment Minister Joke Schauvlieghe can be found here (in Dutch).