Welcome Week: “a student, a professor and the president walk into KLU…”
In this article, we give you the keys to what you can expect from it. Of course, the real fun will start when you cross the building’s doors on September 1st. One of the first things you’ll receive from [...] social activities that will help you break the ice and create unique, amazing memories right from the start. If you are kind of a hermit, you can also lock yourself into our “silent room” on Campus, but we [...] whether in a suit or sneakers, is approachable and open to you. Are you in the “shy” spectrum? Team up! Find that ball of energy classmate and stick to him to push your comfort zone a bit. In the evening
Immo Schmidt-Jortzig Appointed Executive Director of Administration at KLU
During his time in office, the HSBA doubled the size of its student body and expanded its faculty to up to 33 professors. Under his leadership, the HSBA’s administration set its focus on sustainability and [...] this prestigious university – that’s what motivates me. I’m very much looking forward to getting started in September! As the future Executive Director of KLU, I would like to express my thanks for the
KLU Athletes Celebrate Success at German Field Hockey Championship
UHC and KLU alumni, took fourth place. “If you look back at the season as a whole and you’re runner-up in Germany , you’ve certainly performed well. At the moment, however, the disappointment about losing [...] 3:2 win in the game for third place against UHC, they secured the bronze, qualifying for the last starting position in the Euro Hockey League, the champions league in hockey. So the 1:2 semifinal defeat
10 Best Things to Do Outside of Hamburg
opportunity to go pretty much anywhere in Germany on a budget and with that in mind, we want you to start by discovering the amazing options that the surroundings of Hamburg have to offer. Beyond the well-known [...] A great way to de-stress after the exam period (or maybe even during the exam period?) is to spike up your adrenaline with a good day of roller coasters, fun attractions, and striking shows to fill all [...] perspective! As we told you in this article , Hamburg is an amazing place to enjoy the water and start your journey into sailing. However, if you want to really feel the power of the waves right on your
Brain Capital: the solidary financing that believes in your potential
income source, whether is a job or your own entrepreneurship. You will only start your repayments to Brain Capital once you start working and you earn over a certain threshold (this depends on the country [...] threshold of about 30.000€ gross salary). If you earn less or earn nothing, you don’t start paying back. Once you start your repayments you will have the option to stop them if you are not earning over the [...] Brain Capital provides you with some money to cover the tuition fee while you are studying, and you start repaying it back once you have graduated and you are earning income. Every student admitted to KLU
Managers Job Sharing? Here’s How – Alumni Story with Alida Tiemann
allows me to combine both the early stages of starting a family with the demanding task of management responsibility . My son was one year old when I started this position. At Tchibo there have been various [...] I stood there watching the trucks pull up to the gates, behind them the huge warehouse. I thought, wow, this is totally cool. To this day. That’s how I got started in logistics. A couple stops later came [...] interest. Alida Tiemann: I really don’t think anything is harder, except perhaps that you have to synch up more. But the extra time is minor. I met my job sharing partner 10 years ago at Tchibo in the project
“Sprechen Sie Deutsch?”: A quick guide to managing life in German despite messing up all the declinations
your German skills, even more so if you are starting from scratch. Having a basic knowledge of the grammar and rules of the language is important and will speed up the learning process later on, and believe [...] However, as soon as you overcome the very irrational thought of fearing a language, and you actually start putting some effort into learning it, you will soon realize that the long words are nothing but very [...] this website . The next step in the language app world is putting your knowledge into practice and start interacting with people in German. For this, a bunch of social networking apps are available: Tandem
Thrust and Take-off Weight: How’s the Decarbonization of Freight Transport Going?
heard such sentiments in the past months. In 2023, my wish for us is that all actors finally start building up thrust power. To do so, we don’t need a perfect plan for the future. With this rocket, the general [...] 2022 is wrapping up. A lot has happened in the past months. From climate activists on the streets to fossil fuel activists at COP27, many interest groups have impacted the discourse surrounding the de [...] commonplace greenwashing . And because of sitting around and waiting: “Now is not the right time to start. We have other fires to put out first.” Or “I’ll wait until one way ahead prevails.” I’ve often heard
LogisticsTech Talks at KLU: The Last Mile
Last-mile delivery makes start-up founders dream and logistics experts despair?! On Monday, December 12, 2022, the LogisticsTech Talks community met at the KLU campus. Three top experts from Bringoo, Circus [...] Professor of Freight Transportation - Modelling and Policy at KLU. Helge Plehn (Circus Kitchens) started the evening. Circus Kitchens combines gourmet cuisine and last-mile logistics, so it has its own
Logistics: Love at Second Glance – Alumni Story with Jan Frahnert
supporting startups with their venture capital firm STARTHUB Ventures. Jan is married with three children and lives in Lüneburg. LOTUS Containers Group CARRIER53 Venture Capital Unternehmen STARTHUB Ventures [...] of 2016) has gotten more than one startup off the ground in the field. But that wasn’t always the case. Logistics was love at a second glance for him. Who set them up: Kühne Logistics University. In this [...] management board and COO of foreign subsidiaries. Then you left your old career and made a fresh start. Why? Jan Frahnert: My entry-level years after my first business degree were very educational, and