CBS Maritime - Well On Course!
From left: CBS Maritime Director, Henrik Sornn-Friese and Co-director, Carsten Ørts Hansen.
Foto: Carsten Bundgaard
From the outset it has been our ambition that CBS Maritime should be an interdisciplinary and open platform at CBS that integrates all CBS research, teaching and communication activities with a focus on the global maritime sector. Simultaneously, CBS Maritime should provide a clear interface for collaborative partnership with the business and research communities on challenges and opportunities in this sector and in the sector’s value-creation linkages to non-maritime industries.
Back in 2012 we wrote a strategy plan proposing a two-step process for the creation of CBS Maritime with
• first a formalization of a responsible management and a steering committee and
• second a transformation of CBS maritime into a Business in Society (BiS) Platform.
Now, two years later, we can conclude that the strategy plan has been well implemented and that the proposed organization has been established with a clear division of responsibilities and a well-functioning coordination (see also page 17-19 in the status report).Today CBS Maritime not only serves as a liaison between the maritime educations and faculty at CBS. The platform has also proven to work as an efficient creator of a critical mass of maritime expertise that enables CBS to provide high quality maritime education on all levels at any time. This is not only important to CBS, but is also a point that has been repeatedly emphasized by the industry as well as accreditation bodies.
As an example, we wish to mention how several persons within CBS Maritime succeeded in obtaining institutional accreditation from the national Danish accreditation body, ACE Denmark, for the Executive MBA in Shipping and Logistics as well as for the new B.Sc. in International Shipping and trade.
Over the past two years many CBS colleagues have joined CBS Maritime with participation in different research projects and as coordinators and teachers in maritime courses in the Cand.merc. study program (the Minor in Maritime Business) and the Cand.merc. JUR program as well as in the new B.Sc. in International Shipping and Trade.
Lately we have also been able to welcome several new PhD students, research assistants and student assistants.
All would not have been achieved without a strong contact and collaboration with the industry. We will therefore take this opportunity to thank the industry and our advisory board for their support in ensuring a strong relevance in the maritime teaching and research activities taking place at CBS.
In our effort to develop CBS Maritime we have developed a strong collaboration with other Danish universities and with universities in other countries where maritime businesses form an important part of the economy. The former includes close coordination and joint projects with Maritime DTU and with the University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark and Aalborg University. The latter includes personal collaborations with individual researchers from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, the Euromed Business School in Marseille and the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg as well as more formalized research and teaching collaboration with Singapore Management University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (Sauder School of Business and the Liu Institute for Global Issues).
We hope that you will enjoy reading this status report and find inspiration on how to participate in our many and varied activities.
As an interdisciplinary platform at CBS investigating the maritime sector, we hereby invite practitioners and researchers to participate in this investigation.
Henrik Sornn-Friese and Carsten Ørts Hansen