17th IFPSM Summer School on Advanced Purchasing Research

* Deadline for registration is 1 May 2012. Please click here to download an application form.

The IFPSM Summer School is organised with the aim to provide an opportunity of an intensive working together of talented young scholars from all around the world with some of the leading professors of the field.

So far we had 233 students from about 30 countries of Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Eight volumes or CDs of the papers presented by student participants of the first 13 schools have been published by IFPSM. All the sixteen schools were organised in Salzburg, which has proved to be an ideal location for the event.

The Summer School is intended:

• to help participants in defining relevant research topics and powerful methods;
• to provide a forum for talented young scholars from various regions of the world for exchanging ideas and establishing a research network
• to promote the profession of purchasing and materials management by contributing to the creation of high standard dissertation of the participants.

Participants may come from any country of the world provided that they meet the following requirements. They must be

• enrolled PhD, postgraduate (or advanced graduate) students of an accredited institute of higher education;
• in the phase of writing a dissertation based on original research on purchasing or a closely related area (materials management, logistics, supply chain management, etc.);
• fluent in English and willing to take an active part in discussions in that language;
• able to present a letter of recommendation from one regular faculty member of the institution they are enrolled in.

For full details of the Summer School, and how to apply, please click here to download a brochure.