The concept has proven its worth, it is highly appreciated, and now the research cluster LogDynamics of the University of Bremen has also received an award for its innovative approach: In the competition “Best practices and new ideas to improve the doctorate in engineering sciences” LogDynamics won on account of its qualification program in the category “Internationalization”. Today the awards were conferred in the course of the symposium “Doctorate in Engineering – Strengths and Quality Assurance” in Berlin.

The competition was conjointly announced by the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), the 4ING faculty conferences, the TU9 consortium (union of the leading technical universities in Germany), and the Working Group of Technical Universities and Colleges (ARGE TU/TH).

LogDynamics had shown its “strength in internationalization” the evaluation explains. The jury, for example, conceived the “cultural intermixture” and the “continuous interdisciplinary cooperation”, including the integration of guest researchers from abroad, to be “exemplary”. “This way German doctoral candidates profit from the internationalization and, vice-versa, the international postgraduates from the exchange with their German colleagues.”

Logistic problems can only rarely be solved satisfactorily by one single discipline, and because of globalization they are of international relevance. For this reason, research and qualification in the research cluster have an international orientation. LogDynamics improves the doctorate training in engineering sciences with two packages of measures: an “Integrated Research Training Group” in the scope of the Collaborative Research Center “Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes – a Paradigm Shift and its Limitations” (CRC 637) funded by the German Research Foundation and by the “International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics” (IGS).

On behalf of the LogDynamics research cluster its spokesperson, Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernd Scholz-Reiter, accepted the award. “LogDynamics wanted to cross borders right from the beginning and relied on a structure of the PhD phase that prepared the scientists to cope with the new challenges of research and the economy,” he says. “That we have been distinguished particularly in the category of ‘internationalization’ is a pleasure.”

More information on LogDynamics can be obtained on the Internet at http://logdynamics.biba.uni-bremen.de/?&L=1.