ACADEMIC EDUCATION IN LOGISTICS USING DIFFERENT FORMS OF PRACTICAL TRAININGS

The academic education should prepare the students for their profession in an effective and efficient manner. The most important individual factors of success in the profession of a logistician are: Sense of responsibility, customer-orientated, aim-orientated, self-motivated, analytical thinking, problem solving competence, social competence, creativity, ability to work in a team, good manners, ability to impose the will and persistence, flexibility, decision competences, integrity, self-reflection, ecological thinking, mobility, international skills, learning abilities and management skills. Today academic courses in logistics are not longer conceivable without any modern teaching methods aided by modern I&C technologies. In the following some highlights of the educational program of logistics at the university in Magdeburg are presented. These teaching forms are also the result of international cooperation.