DHL Innovation Award 2010

DHL Innovation Award 2010: Space for Solutions

As the world´s leading logistics group, Deutsche Post DHL actively promotes innovative applications and technologies in the logistics industry. The DHL Innovation Day was created to highlight the significant role that innovations play at Deutsche Post DHL as well as in the logistics sector overall. In addition, promoting innovations is a valuable component of the Strategy 2015.

You are an ambitious young scientist and are prepared to take on the challenge? You are a college senior or a postgraduate student, research assistant or entrepreneuer? And you have worked in-depth on a forward-looking innovations for the logistics industry in a research paper or business plan? Then participate in the DHL Innovation Award for the most innovative young scientist!

This year's competition will run through July 31. A prize of € 5,000 awaits the winner at the award ceremony, which will once again be held at the DHL Innovation Center near Bonn, Germany, at the end of 2010.

Entries may be submitted online at www.dhl.com/innovationday. Please note: You may register only by using  the online form.

The submissions to the competition will be judged by a respected jury composed of decision makers from R&D, business and politics. The winner of the DHL Innovation Award 2010 will be honored at the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf.

The most innovative junior scientist/entrepreneur will also receive an attractive monetary prize to complement the award.

Prize money:
1st place: €5,000

Date of award presentation:
November 3rd, 2010

Organizer/Venue:
DHL Innovation Center
Junkersring 55
53844 Troisdorf
Germany

Contact:
Gülderen Tuna
g.tuna@deutschepost.de

Frank Josefiak
frank.josefiak@deutschepost.de

Participation in the DHL Innovation Award

For the DHL Innovation Award, we are looking for ambitious young scientists and entrepreneurs. As a master's or PhD candidate, a research assistant or an entrepreneur, you should have intensely worked on a logistics-related academic research project or business plan.

Creative solutions that are focused on customer needs have the best chance of winning. It is a prerequisite to not only present the theoretical approach, but also provide some initial assumptions on the market potential of the solution. The submission of a business plan will increase your chances of winning. A panel of experts from R&D, politics and business will evaluate the entries.

This year's competition will run through July 31. A prize of €5,000 awaits the winner at the award ceremony which will once again be held at the DHL Innovation Center near Bonn, Germany, at the end of 2010.

Entries may be submitted online at www.dhl.com/innovationday. Please note: You may register only by using the online form.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity and use your submission to the competition as a way to initiate a direct dialogue with the world of work and the global leader in logistics. We are already excited about receiving your ideas and concepts.

This year's competition will run through July 31. A prize of €5,000 awaits the winner at the award ceremony which will once again be held at the DHL Innovation Center near Bonn, Germany, at the end of 2010.