March 8 – The Kühne School of Logistics and Management, whose sole shareholder is the non-profit Kuehne Foundation, is founding a private independent university, the Kühne Logistics University (KLU).
The KLU will be part of the Hamburg cluster for logistics research institutes which includes the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML). The KLU will co-operate with other Hamburg universities.
The KLU plans to launch its teaching activities in October 2010, with the first non-consecutive Master of Science programme in global logistics.
The programme includes a period of study at one of the Asian, European or American partner schools.
The Kühne School’s executive programmes will continue and be expanded. State recognition will shortly be applied for from the education and science authorities of city of Hamburg.