ELI – European Logistics Institute preparation
ELI – European Logistics Institute will be nationally and internationally recognized actor that contributes to resilience, security of supply and logistics.
ELI – European Logistics Institute will start its activities in January, 2025.
Key measures of the Kymi Logistics Centre of Expertise -project
The project will prepare for the establishment of a multidisciplinary logistics centre of expertise in Kymenlaakso: a network of expertise and experts, the operating concept of the centre of expertise and alternatives to the centre’s physical location.
ELI – European Logistics Institute will start its activities in January 2025.
Vision
ELI – European Logistics Institute is a nationally and internationally recognized actor that contributes to resilience, security of supply and logistics.
ELI prepares and maintains Finland’s national logistics strategy. The Centre of Expertise can be expanded into a NATO Centre of Excellence.
Mission
European Logistics Institute is like an umbrella.
ELI increases society’s resilience and functional capacity by combining and partly coordinating and developing methods, measures and processes of different actors in security of supply and logistics to develop security of supply and logistics.
ELI -European Logistics Institute – cornerstones of operations
- Home base and diverse infrastructure in Kymenlaakso
- Network of top experts in logistics and security of logistics
- The operations of ELI are steered at the national level
- Results are scaled nationally and internationally
The Finnish Defence Forces sees the development of such a network positively. The Finnish Defence Forces is monitoring the development of the Kymi Logistics Centre of Expertise -project.
If implemented, it could create cooperation and development opportunities, for example: in training of the Finnish Defence Forces’ logistics and to produce know-how to Defence Forces’ logistics system, but also more broadly to national logistics and thus also to security of supply.
Finnish Defence Command, J4
Tasks of ELI – European Logistics Institute
ELI studies and tests technological challenges and solutions for logistics and supply chain and their cybersecurity.
In addition, logistical interfaces between authorities and in society are studied and developed.
ELI organizes training and logistics exercises to test different concepts, operating models and scenarios presented by the participants.
ELI contributes to providing added value for national and international functionality of logistics.
Goal-oriented and appropriate cooperation between actors in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and added value is essential.
ELI – European Logistics Institute improves the capability and crisis resilience of Finnish organizations.
ELI Network
ELI is a network with a physical location and permanent personnel, but also actors in the network in Kymenlaakso and outside the region.
Higher education institutions and universities engaged in logistics education and research, logistics and comprehensive security operators, authorities and logistics organizations of the Finnish Defence Forces are invited to join the network.
ELI has partners who benefit from its results, commission services from it and contribute to financing its activities.
Department of Rescues Services of the Ministry of the Interior welcomes the fact that the ELI operates partly as a network-like structure, which enables the utilisation of experts on a wide scale both nationally and internationally.
Department of Rescues Services of the Ministry of the Interior
Facts
Kymi LOGCOE preparation
Info
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