Course Description
The International Project Management and Funding Instruments (IPM&FI) course is intended for those aiming to work in the international working environment in any field or industry. Today project activity and project formation is considered as work method and procedures used by organisations to meet the challenges of increasingly international, global and digitalised operating environments. International project activity has become a part of almost any field or industry operations. The course will introduce variety of project initiatives from micro (company) to macro (national, global) level with particular focus on innovation, international cooperation and development issues. Multiple international funding instruments will be introduced to demonstrate how international project initiatives are financed and what are common project methodologies to deliver expected results in timely manner and how to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the projects. Leading global teams, intercultural communication and digital transformation of project management are considered as cross-cutting topics throughout the course.
Course content
Introduction to International Project Management
- Revising fundamentals of project management
- International and cross-cultural management context
- Leading global projects and complexity, public-private partnership
The global landscape -platform for innovations and development ideas
-global issues, SDGs, 4th industrial revolution, the forces of future innovations
-project initiatives from micro (company) to macro (national, global) level with particular focus on innovation, international cooperation and development issues
Project management methodologies, standards and tools for leading international projects
- Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, PMBoK , Six Sigma, PCM
Project Cycle Management (PCM) tools in practice
International Funding Instruments
- Global, EU, National
- Key operational principles
Integrated Project Assignment -practical application of learnt material and tools. Actual development of professional project proposal based on real life situation and defined funding instrument