Congratulations to Takfarinas Saber and Nam Le who were nominated for best paper awards during 2018. Takfarinas was nominated for his paper Multi-Level Grammar Genetic Programming for Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks EvoStar 2018 in Parma, Italy. Nam Le was nominated for his paper The Baldwin effect reconsidered through the prism of social learning at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.