Successful project kick-off in Dortmund: PARASOLS shapes the future of supply chain management
- 2026
- Forschungsprojekte
- PARASOLS
- Lehrstuhlnews
Responding to current challenges in logistics
From geopolitical disruptions to growing sustainability requirements: Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex and unpredictable. At the same time, digital technologies are fundamentally changing both processes and the required skills profiles of employees. This is precisely where the PARASOLS project comes in.
From concept to practice: pioneering learning formats
The core objective of the project is to identify these future key skills and translate them into practical learning concepts. The content of the work focuses on four central topics:
- Resilient supply chains: strategies for coping with crises and disruptions.
- Digital technologies: Integration of new tools into existing SCM processes.
- Sustainable supply chain management: implementation of ecological and social standards.
- Supply chain finance: financial optimization along the value chain.
After intensive workshops during the kick-off, the strategic direction has been set: the first ideas are taking shape and, in addition to the development of innovative, game-based teaching materials, the first publications are already in preparation.
Strong European partner network
In order to achieve these ambitious goals, PARASOLS is pooling the expertise of international partners. In addition to the LFO at TU Dortmund University, representatives from Windesheim University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the Politecnico di Milano and the Bratislava University of Economics and Business Administration (EUBA) are working closely together. We would like to thank the entire project team, including Federico Caniato, Camilla Borsani, Michal Tkac, Miroslava Barkóciová, Michiel Steeman, Rea Bosco Vaz, Michael Henke, Natalia Straub, Lana Benkhoff and Patrick Stuckmann, for the excellent exchange.
Exciting insights at the end
The kick-off meeting was rounded off with a visit to the Fraunhofer IML. Special thanks go to Alia Suraya Khaddour and Markus Menting for the great guided tour and the exciting insights into applied logistics research.
We are looking forward to the next steps of the project and will soon report here on the first concrete results and new teaching formats!