Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC)

Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) is a research institute established by the Government of Aragon in Spain in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Zaragoza.

Founded in 2003, the ZLC campus is located in the heart of PLAZA, the largest logistics park in the southwest of Europe that serves as a working laboratory to transfer new knowledge and working practices. ZLC has rapidly become recognized as an international center of excellence for education and research in logistics and supply chain management focusing on:

- enhancing economic growth and competitiveness through innovation
- engaging with both industry and the public sector in the development and dissemination of knowledge

To accomplish its mission ZLC partnered with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics to form the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, a unique model of collaboration between industry, government and academia. This successful partnership led to the creation of the MIT Global SCALE Network that now spans four continents. In addition, Zaragoza Logistics Center participates in several national and international research and educational initiatives.

In 2008 the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science officially recognized ZLC as a Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) after previously being designated the National Center of Excellence for research in the area of logistics and supply chain management, CNC LOGISTICA, in 2006. This latest recognition puts ZLC in the leading role to define and coordinate research, development and innovation initiatives across Spain in logistics and supply chain management.

ZLC has the continued support of local saving banks Ibercaja and CAI. This activity is partially funded by the European Social Fund in the framework of the Operational Programme 2007-2013, “Building Europe from Aragon”