Continuing its fruitful cooperation with centers in Western and Central Europe, the College of Logistics is opening up to the East. An agreement was signed in Poznań between WSL and the International Logistics Training Center in Moscow. Agreements with centers in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus are also in the plans.
The International Logistics Training Center is part of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and is a leading logistics center in Russia. Professor Viktor Sergeyev and Professor Valentina Dybskaya – leading Russian scientists in the field of logistics and prominent specialists in supply chain management and logistics controlling – arrived in Poznań.
Cooperation between WSL and the Moscow Logistics Training Center will be based on the exchange of lecturers and students. The mutual exchange of “know-how” is extremely important for both parties, as the conditions for practicing logistics are very different in both regions. There are also plans to publish a joint textbook on logistics, based on the experiences of both countries.
Both sides see enormous opportunities for cooperation. The Russians recognize the potential of European logistics with its center in Poznań, where the College of Logistics and the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing operate dynamically. However, this cooperation is equally important for the Polish side, which sees Russia as a huge Asian-European market, and Moscow as its strongest logistics hub.
– Our opening to the East is the result of a consistently implemented strategy of internationalizing studies. – says Wojciech Zalewski, WSL press spokesperson – Last year, we also translated the university’s website into Russian. We are ready to launch optional classes in this language at any time if students are interested.
The College of Logistics is also in talks with logistics education centers in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus. The university is already effectively cooperating with partners in Western and Central Europe as part of the NEDLOG project – Modern Education for Logistics, as well as by implementing the Socrates – Erasmus student exchange program. An innovation on a national scale is the possibility of obtaining a double degree in logistics through cooperation with the German university TFH Wildau from Berlin.