A guide for project management, a shared curriculum for university training in European project management and a set of open-source digital educational resources for training: these are the main results of the Erasmus+ EUPM2 project ‘A new academic path for EU Project Managers: narrowing the gaps to enable better project design and management in Europe’, coordinated by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, with the CEIS – Centre for Economic and International Studies, whose formal closing event took place on 22 November in Brussels, at the YERUN (Young European Research Universities Network) premises.
Over 70 participants from the seven different European countries involved over two years ago in the project, which was set up to improve the management of EU-funded projects by adapting the European Commission’s PM² project management methodology: Spain (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Slovenia (Alma Mater University), Austria (Joanneum University of Applied Sciences), Portugal (New University of Lisbon), Estonia (University of Tartu) and the Czech Republic (University of Pardubice) as well as several stakeholders including Unioncamere Europa, PM2 Alliance, ARCI and Coordinadora de NGOs, as well as Italy’s lead partner (University of Rome Tor Vergata).
The concluding event entitled ‘EUPM² Unveiled: A New Tailored Approach to Managing EU-Funded Projects’ was opened by Professor Andrea Bonomi Savignon of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who stressed the importance of projects as drivers of European policies and the need to include project management courses at university level to train the new generations in the knowledge and skills that are today essential to manage European projects effectively.
This was followed by Marco Amici, a member of the project team of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who gave an overview of the results of the EUPM² project, which made it possible to adapt and customise the PM2 project management methodology to the specific needs and constraints of project managers involved in EU-funded projects (Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, Interreg, etc.), thus providing a practical and integrated framework for their design and management and a common curriculum to deliver the training to university students.
Project Results can be freely downloaded from the project website.