With the excitement of having only two days until the ECoL Summer School 2017’s start, we would hereby like to remind you a few points of importance.

We have updated the detailed schedule of the summer school and the descriptions of group works to be supervised by the lecturers. Please find the new schedule and the recommended literature regarding your group work here. Please make sure to take a look at them prior to the beginning of the lectures.

If you have any questions or suggestions don’t hesitate to contact our team.

See you soon in Duisburg!

The ECoL-Team is glad to receive the support of the Campus Sapiens foundation at the upcoming ECoL Summer School once again. The donation will cover two travel scholarships for the ECoL Summer School 2017 in Duisburg amounting to 250 Euro for one male and one female participant each.

Campus Sapiens foundation in Essen, Germany, was established in 2015 and supports researchers in international travel and science inquiry purposes. For more information please contact the acting head of the foundation, Prof. Dr. Matthias Klumpp:  matthias.klumpp@fom.de

We are proud to announce that the third Summer School on Emerging Concepts of Logistics (ECoL) will take place in August 2017 in Duisburg. Master and PhD candidates, Post-Docs as well as practitioners are invited to discuss innovations in the interdisciplinary and service-oriented field of logistics during a ten-days programme, touching upon a variety of topics regarding “Food Supply Chain”. The ECoL network aims at integrating neighboring Continue reading

We are proud to announce that the next Emerging Concepts of Logistics – ECoL Summer School in 2017, between 14th and 23rd of August on “Food Supply Chain” will be funded by the German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). Being granted DAAD funding after a highly competitive qualifying process, ECoL Summer School 2017 is currently in the organizational structuring and content development phase.

Due to the high demand of applicants from  various universities, we are pleased to inform you about the prolonged deadline: August 10th, 2016.

We are proud to announce that the second Summer School on Emerging Concepts of Logistics (ECoL) will take place in August 2016 in Duisburg. Master and PhD candidates, Post-Docs as well as practitioners are invited to discuss innovations in the interdisciplinary and service-oriented field of logistics during a seven-days programme, touching upon a variety of topics regarding “Port of the Future”. The ECoL network aims at integrating neighboring Continue reading

We are very happy to present to you the main sponsor of this year’s ECoL Summer School in Istanbul. duisport, one of central Europe’s leading logistics hubs, has kindly agreed to support us! Located at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Ruhr, duisport is the world’s largest hinterland container port, handling a total of 3,4 million TEU each year, offering a range of full-service packages in the areas of infra- and suprastructure including settlement Continue reading

Owing to specific requests from applicants, we decided to postpone the application deadline until July 5th, 2015. We well notify you about the success/status of your application//our decision as soon as possible. We are very much looking forward to your innovative ideas in the context of Emerging Concepts of Logistics.