Developing Central Baltic University Level Professional Logistics Education

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The objective of the project is to develop the university level, professional logistics education in cross-border cooperation to make the offered education, and consequently the acquired skills and competences of the graduating students, to better match with the current and future needs of the Central Baltic businesses and labor markets as a whole. Various researches have shown that there is a clear lack of skilled logistics employees on all organizational levels in all Central Baltic countries. The current project aims at addressing this clear competence development need in cooperation with representatives of Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, and Latvian universities offering professional logistics studies. The project bases on market needs, visible current and future logistics skills and competences needed in different logistics duties in the eyes of the Central Baltic companies. These needs are consequently compared to the current, university level offering of professional, logistics education within the Central Baltic area to identify the points needing updating and improvement in the education, both in topics discussed/taught and teaching/learning methods applied. Consequently, the participating universities address the emerging development needs by creating a joint study package (18 ECTS BSc and 15 ECTS MSc ) and piloting it in multinational cooperation with multinational student groups. The project results in better logistics education matching with the needs of the markets/Central Baltic enterprises. In more employees possessing skills and competences needed in the labor markets; that is, in better/more efficient employees for the different companies. Moreover, through aligned/joint education and learning, it results in more integrated Central Baltic labor market and consequently more enabled movement of labor. Finally, it also results in diminished social exclusion and, all in all, more prosper, competitive, and hale Central Baltic area.

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