The Smart Logistics Challenge: eight winners selected to help the European materials handling industry ‘deliver tomorrow’

The Smart Logistics Challenge: eight winners selected to help the European materials handling industry ‘deliver tomorrow’

Brussels, 30 July 2018 – Eight winners announced of The Smart Logistics Challenge, an initiative launched by FEM in December 2017

The competition was designed to connect with university students by giving them the chance to put forward their ideas on the most exciting trends transforming the industry.
We will need the best and brightest young minds to help us achieve our goal as a sector to ‘deliver tomorrow’,” explained Christophe Lautray, FEM President.

Following the competition launch on 15 December 2017, entries were accepted until 6 April 2018. The best submissions from this round qualified for mentoring from industry experts in order to move their concepts to completion. Finally, the jury selected eight winners who will receive paid traineeships with the partner companies and a VIP invitation to the FEM Congress on 13-14 September in Antwerp, Belgium.

The competition attracted 571 students across the fields of engineering, business, IT and social sciences from 26 countries. Of these, the best submissions on the three topics – Enablers of e-commerce, Cobotics in Logistics 4.0, Logistics in a Sharing Economy – came from:

• Ángel Lorente Rogel, Universidad Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain
• Diogo Costa Cunha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Dimitri Mathon and Charles Elloy, Ecole Catholique d’ Arts et Métiers Lyon, France
• Mads Madsen, Technical University of Denmark
• Marcell Bozik and Ádám Geiszt, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Sophia Arfaoui, ISTEC – Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et Marketing Paris, France

The cases are available here and they are competing for public votes until September 10 to win the TrendSpotter Award.

You can find out more about the competition at www.smartlogisticschallenge.eu and join the conversation on social media by using #DeliverTomorrow.