Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr

What Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr does

The Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr is a sub-unit operating within the Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE), a public research university under public law located in Duisburg and Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. UDE was founded in 2003 through the merger of the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg and the University of Essen and has since grown into one of the ten largest universities in Germany, enrolling more than 37,000 students and employing approximately 5,000 academic, research, and administrative staff across 11 faculties. The institution reports 8 DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereiche (Collaborative Research Centres), 6 research groups, 9 graduate schools, and 14 European joint projects, concentrated in five profile areas: water research, biomedical sciences, nanosciences, transformation of contemporary societies, and a fifth area referenced in the data. UDE is a member of the UA Ruhr alliance (with Ruhr-Universität Bochum and TU Dortmund) and the AURORA European University Network spanning nine European institutions.

The entity's operational model is non-commercial: it is publicly funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Science, and supplemented by competitive grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Research Council (ERC), and foundations such as Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Service delivery occurs across two campuses (Duisburg at Forsthausweg 2 and Essen at Universitätsstraße 2, plus the Universitätsklinikum at Hufelandstraße 55) and through digital platforms including HISinOne, Moodle, Zoom, and webmail. Customer-relevant segments identified are prospective and enrolled students, researchers and academics, and industry/government partners engaging in transfer and cooperation.

Revenue and pricing are not publicly disclosed and no commercial product, funding round, M&A activity, or proprietary technology stack is reported in the input sources. The Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr operates within this institutional framework without separately disclosed financials, headcount, or commercial operations.

Name

Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr

Legal name

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Website

https://uni-due.org

Company type

Public

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr is an academic sub-unit of the Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE), a public research university founded in 2003 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, serving more than 37,000 students and 5,000 employees across 11 faculties.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Duisburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

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Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Zentrum für Logistik und Verkehr (ZLV) is a research and teaching center within the Universität Duisburg-Essen that focuses on logistics and transport topics. It delivers higher education programmes, applied research, and knowledge transfer activities for students, industry partners, and public institutions, drawing on UDE's 11 faculties and DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centres.

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Products and services

• Higher education study programmes in logistics and transport Degree-level study programmes delivered at the Universität Duisburg-Essen for prospective and enrolled students across 11 faculties, including logistics and transport disciplines. Enrolment is administered through the HISinOne campus portal with orientation support via UDE4you and UDE-Studiumfinder.
• Funded collaborative research and graduate training DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centres (Sonderforschungsbereiche), research groups, graduate schools, and European joint projects that support doctoral candidates and researchers across UDE's faculties.
• Hans-Böckler-Stiftung doctoral college 'Die Arbeit und ihre Subjekte' Doctoral college funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung providing eight doctoral scholarships for up to three years, focused on medial discourse of work since 1960.
• STRALI EV charging infrastructure planning tool Planning tool developed with municipal partners to help municipalities optimize electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment for the benefit of citizens, businesses, and local government.
• College for Social Sciences and Humanities Senior Fellowships (UA Ruhr) Senior Fellowships offered to international researchers in social sciences and humanities through the UA Ruhr joint initiative, supporting six-month research stays and promoting international collaboration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8 DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereiche (Collaborative Research Centres)
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UA Ruhr (Universitätsallianz Ruhr)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUA Ruhr is the University Alliance Ruhr, a strategic partnership between the University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and TU Dortmund University. It is one of Germany's largest regional university networks, fostering joint research, teaching cooperation, and knowledge transfer across the Ruhr metropolitan region. The alliance supports joint funding instruments such as MERCUR for collaborative research projects.
• AURORA Universities NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAURORA is a European university network connecting nine universities across Europe (including Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Iceland, University of Naples Federico II, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, University of Innsbruck, Palacký University Olomouc, Copenhagen Business School, and Université Paris-Est Créteil). The network focuses on collaborative research and education in areas including sustainability, digital society, health, culture, social entrepreneurship, and peace education.
• College for Social Sciences and Humanities (UA Ruhr)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe College for Social Sciences and Humanities, a joint initiative of the UA Ruhr, offers Senior Fellowships to international researchers in social sciences and humanities. It has hosted 36 fellows since its launch in spring 2024, with up to 20 fellowships available per year, supporting six-month research stays and promoting international collaboration within the UA Ruhr network.
• Centre for Global Cooperation Research (CGCR)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCGCR is a research institution closely associated with the PSP Wandel (Transformation of Contemporary Societies) profile focus area at UDE, conducting research on global cooperation and transnational governance structures.
• Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (InZentIM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInZentIM is an interdisciplinary research center at UDE focused on integration and migration research, closely affiliated with the PSP Wandel profile focus area, contributing expertise on international migration and societal transformation.
• Hans-Böckler-StiftungcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (Hans Böckler Foundation) funds the doctoral college 'Die Arbeit und ihre Subjekte. Mediale Diskursivierungen von Arbeit seit 1960' at UDE, providing eight doctoral scholarships for up to three years. The foundation is affiliated with the German trade union movement and supports research on work and its societal dimensions.
• German Record Linkage CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Schnell and Stefan Bender, the German Record Linkage Center develops and validates encryption methods for data linkage in health registries and population data, collaborating across research institutions in Germany.
• European Research Council (ERC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe ERC provides advanced grant funding (up to €2.5 million over five years via Advanced Grants, up to €7 million over seven years via Plus Grants) to established researchers at UDE. The EU Office of the SSC provides application support and advisory services.
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDFG is the primary national research funding body for UDE's collaborative research centres (SFBs), research training groups, and individual research grants. UDE hosts multiple DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereiche and participates in DFG-coordinated research programmes.
• STRALI (joint project with municipal partners)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTRALI is a collaborative project in which UDE researchers developed a planning tool for municipalities to optimize electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment, working with municipal partners to benefit citizens, businesses, and local government.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Copenhagen Business School: AURORA network partner and Danish public research institution with a business/social-science orientation; peer for joint programme development and EU consortium leadership within the network.
• RWTH Aachen University: Leading German technical university and Excellence Strategy institution with comparable engineering and DFG-heavy research profile; competes directly for talent, ERC/DFG grants and industry partnerships.
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Partner university in the UA Ruhr alliance with comparable scale and public-research profile in the Ruhr region; competes with UDE for students, faculty, and DFG/ERC funding in overlapping disciplines.
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Co-member of the AURORA European University Network with similar comprehensive public-university structure; partnership and student-mobility peer within the same network.
• TU Dortmund University: Third member of the UA Ruhr alliance; another large public research university in the same metropolitan region with overlapping natural sciences, engineering and social sciences portfolios.

Emerging players

• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML): Adjacent applied-research institute with strong logistics/transportation focus; comparable in thematic mission (logistics research) to a logistics research centre within UDE, and competes for industry-funded research.

Broad incumbents

• University of Cologne: Large NRW public university with comprehensive research profile including social sciences and humanities; competes with UDE within the same state funding pool.
• Technical University of Munich: Flagship German technical university and Excellence Strategy institution; competes for the same DFG/ERC funding, top faculty and high-attaining STEM students nationwide.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/universitaet.duisburg.essen
• Instagraminstagram.com/unidue_de
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@udechannel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zentrum-f%C3%BCr-logistik-und-verkehr

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Profiles3 records

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