The only university level in Italy, among the few in the world on humanitarian logistics
Humanitarian Logistics Master
The Università Politecnica delle Marche, has launched the first Master in Humanitarian Logistics in Italy. A specific training course for young people who desire a career as humanitarian logistics and professional humanitarian worker searching for a qualification opportunity;
the course offers a theoretical framework and practical tools for the complex management of logistics in emergency situations.
The Master Scientific committee promoted and organized this project in partnership with important humanitarian organizations and actors, such as INTERSOS, the Italian Red Cross, Emergency and Think Global. The I level Master is a high level educational path jointly designed by practitioners and academics to prepare the future logisticians to respond to humanitarian crisis. The Master mission is to provide both theoretical knowledge and practical skills requested to a logistician employed in humanitarian operations, through classroom lessons, seminars, workshops, practical simulations and laboratory researches.
Academics, expert humanitarian workers, representatives of the companies involved in humanitarian actions will engage and guide students through 240 frontal hours at Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona), 5 thematic modules, a week of practical emergency simulation at the UNHRD Base (Brindisi), the maximum expression of humanitarian logistics in Italy, webinars, practical exercises and a final 300-hour internship for the development of a thesis to be discussed at the end of the course. A team of expert will follow the students during all their educational path.
The Master will last one year, will be held in English and is intended for a maximum of 25 participants. The enrollment opens on the coming days and the course starts on January 2020.
For the Master’s program and for all information on costs and registration >>> https://www.humanitarianlogisticsmaster.com/home
The Master Scientific commette the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Marche promoted and organized this project in partnership with important humanitarian organizations and actors, such as INTERSOS, the Italian Red Cross, Emergency and Think Global. The Master comes from an idea by Professor Maurizio Bevilaqua, Professor Claudia Paciarotti and Dr. Lodovico Mariani, who first identified the need to establish a master’s degree in logistics at university level in Italy, an experience that was still lacking in our country.
“A valuable choice that reaffirms our confidence in the social responsibility that scientific research and university education are called to take”, says Professor Maurizio Bevilaqua, Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Marche.
“Skills, awareness and knowledge are the preconditions of any intervention, even more in the field of humanitarian logistics where every minute less can make a difference to people’s lives. Hence the commitment undertaken by our University, in collaboration with important humanitarian organizations, in developing a joint educational path, aimed at training the necessary skills of future “logistics professionals”, says Professor Claudia Paciarotti of the Marche Polytechnic University .
“Goodwill is not enough to make a good humanitarian operator,” says Dr. Mariani, expert in humanitarian aid and collaborator of the university for the design of the Master. “From Afghanistan to South Sudan, from Sri Lanka to Yemen, in emergencies related to conflicts or natural disasters, I realized how much the mastery of technical skills for using the latest generation humanitarian response tools, both fundamental to act in an effective and timely manner and to guarantee to thousands of people the best possible help “” This is why we wanted to put together a team of experts in various disciplines to support students, to offer them skills that can not only form the new generation of humanitarian workers, but also provide updates to those who have been doing this for years. “
“INTERSOS ‘investment in this new bet was great. The intent is to contribute to qualifying operators able to respond to the complex challenges posed by an increasingly complex international scenario and to increase the response capacity of organizations involved in the sector “, says Davide Berruti, Personnel Development Coordinator of INTERSOS.
The Master will last one year, will be held in English and is intended for a maximum of 25 participants. The enrollment opens on the coming days and the course starts on January 2020.
For the Master’s program and for all information on costs and registration >>>
https://www.humanitarianlogisticsmaster.com/home