General Aspects

The “European Network of Logistics Competence Centres” (Open ENLoCC) was founded on November 17th, 2006 in Stuttgart, with the following purposes:

bringing together and networking political and logistics key players;
developing the regional economy by solving infrastructural, organisational and technological problems of logistics and transport;
acting as service provider for the network’s partners;
co-ordinating common logistics projects and promoting operational links among the members of Open ENLoCC;
promoting a higher level of cooperation with European institutions;
concluding cooperation agreements with other organisations and bodies with similar or supplementing and synergic objectives;
increasing the exchange of experiences among its members in the fields of logistics and transport and fostering the know how transfer and the development of innovative systems and technologies in transport and logistics;
diffusing the results of its activities and the best practices on a wide scale, involving all the key bodies at EU level;
supporting the foundation of new regional logistics competence centres (LoCCs);
contributing to European harmonisation of law, technology and standardisation in transport and logistics, bringing together users, operators, industry, science and European institutions.

A regional logistics competence centre (LoCC) is defined by the following requirements:

a LoCC is a network-oriented promoter of economic development for logistics in its region. It works together with other institutions for economic development, e.g. the chamber of commerce;
a LoCC initiates, promotes and coordinates / runs a partner network of the logistical key players of its region (companies, transport companies, consultants, associations, university and transfer institutes, political and economic institutions in charge for transport and logistics, … );
a LoCC is a strategic actor and provides a common “forum” where stakeholders with heterogeneous missions and roles can meet and define shared strategies and common policies;
a LoCC must be significantly linked with a local or regional authority with respect to management, financing or missions. Moreover, the LoCC must have a sufficiently large scope of logistics related activities.

For the collaboration of such competence centres the network “Open ENLoCC” was founded. Here you can download the articles of corporation.

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