The twenty-fourth ELA Doctorate Workshop will take place in Edinburgh (UK) from June 26^thuntil June 29^th 2019 at Heriot-Watt University.

Deadline for application: March 4th, 2019.

Aim of the workshop:

• Help the students in progressing their research programme,
• Establish a valuable pan-European network of doctoral students in the field of logistics and SCM,
• Allow the participating students to improve their skills in managing and solving their research problems.

Format of the workshop:

• During the workshop, each of the selected students will present their project in a “big group”,
• After the presentation (15 minutes max.) there will be a discussion/questions session led by the moderator (10 minutes max.) and followed by questions from two students acting as discussants (5 minutes max.),
• The ambition is to help each other in developing the research projects.

Moderators:

• – Prof. Dr. Pietro Evangelista (Chairman), CNR IRISS (Italy),
• – Prof. Dr. Jukka Hallikas, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland),
• – Prof. Dr. Simon Emde, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany),
• – Prof. Dr. Violeta Roso, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden).

On Thursday 27^thJune 2019, (from 11:00 until 12:30) there will be a session entitled “Moderators panel presentations on contemporary topics” in which each moderator is expected to make a 15-20 minutes presentation about his/her research followed by some discussions.

On Friday 28^thJune 2019 (from 11:10 until 12:30) there will be an academic keynote speech by Prof. Phil Greening (Heriot-Watt University, UK).

On Friday 29th June 2018 night there will be the final dinner. During that dinner,Prof. Hans Christian Pfohl (Member of the ELA- Board and Chairman of the ELA-Research committee) will award certificate to all the participating students.

Resources:

• Please note that updated information will be also available on the Facebook profile of the workshop: https://www.facebook.com/ELAdoctorateworkshop/?ref=bookmarks
• For further information about the workshop, please contact the Chairman of the workshop: Pietro Evangelista – PhD – Senior Researcher in Logistics and SCM – IRISS CNR -Ph.: +39 081 2470982 – Fax: +39 081 7618265 – E-mail: p.evangelista@iriss.cnr.it
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