Course leader: Tudor Stanciu

Home Institution: “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi Romania

Course Overview

Understanding the importance of the ability of organization and development of international projects, to design and support the implementation and finalization of projects, the course has synthesized the knowledge accumulated throughout tens of years of coordination of projects, making this useful book available for NGOs, specialists, and specialists in the educational field, educational policy makers, teaching staff, and students, allowing them to become familiar with the project management terminology, with the need to divide the projects into stages, with the criteria, objectives, and risks they may face in the attempt to significantly change something. Beyond the theoretical notions presented in a concise and accessible manner, the specificity of this course consists of exemplifying them through projects that represented, at the moment of their implementation, performance, and dissemination, an internationally acknowledged success.

From the content: General presentation, definitions; The preliminary stage. Initiating the project; Planning and organizing the project; Financial resources. Project budget; The stage of execution, monitoring, and control; Conflict management in projects; Closing the project; Short glossary of terms.

Learning Outcomes

Professional skills	CP1	Understanding the role and importance of projects and Project management.
	CP2	Design, organization, development and evaluation of projects.
	CP3	Elaboration of Reports and final Project report.
	CPS1	knowledge, understanding and use of specialized language
	CPS2	explaining and interpreting project management concepts
competences cross	CT1	Responsible execution of professional tasks, in conditions of limited autonomy and qualified assistance
	CT2	Familiarization with the roles and activities specific to group and team work

 

Specific objectives: definition of project management and project phases

- The theoretical and practical applications in activities

- Develop skills, capacity and skills of project design and management

- Identification of risk factors

- Acquiring knowledge about: motivation and the roles of project manager and project team, educational Organization, Theories of organizational, Cultural and educational climate, Organizational structures of educational, Principles of leadership and team work, Project Management definition, Life cycle of an educational project, Formal, informal and non formal, The purpose and objectives of the projects, Analysis of the project, Activities, Decomposition Project in activities (Work Break Down Structure), Risk and Evaluation, Gantt Charts, Factors influencing the project, Project Manager, The project team, costs, Develop interim and final reports.

Course Content

Topics covered:

Case study: child inventors

1: General presentation, definitions

1.1. Project

1.2. Project management

            1.2.1. – History of project management

            1.2.2. – Constraints of project management

            1.2.3. – Methodology of project management

2: The preliminary stage. Initiating the project

2.1. Project lifecycle

2.2. Stages of an educational project

2.3. Forms of education: formal education, non-formal education, informal education

2.4. Project mission, purpose, and objectives

2.4.1. Mission

2.4.2. Project purpose

2.4.3. Project objectives

2.4.4. Objectively verifiable indicators

2.4.5. Logic matrix frame analysis (LFA) (Victor Iliescu)

2.5. Promoters; beneficiaries; the sponsor; the target group; stakeholders

2.6. Project environment analysis

            2.6.1. The SWOT analysis

2.6.2. The cause-effect diagram

2.6.3. The tree diagram

2.6.4. The Paretto analysis

2.6.5. Educational climate and culture

3: Planning and organizing the project

3.1. Activities

3.2. Break Down Structure of Work

3.3. Time management. Arrow activity networks; precedence tables

3.4. Communicating the activity plan. Gantt diagrams.

3.4.1. The critical path method

3.5. Schedule monitoring and control

3.6. Influence factors in the project

3.7. The project manager

            3.7.1. Manager vs. Leader

            3.7.2. Moderation skills in project managers

            3.7.3. Role coordinates of a moderator project manager

3.8. Establishing the project team

3.9. Motivation of the people involved in educational projects

3.10. Creating “flow” in project management

3.11. The educational manager and the learning school.

4: Financial resources. Project budget

4.1. Costs: eligible, non eligible

4.2. The funding project

4.3. Drawing the time-cost diagram

5: The stage of execution, monitoring, and control

5.1. What is project control

5.2. Monitoring the project evolution

5.3. Monitoring the project as a whole

6: Conflict management in projects

6.1. Sources of conflict

6.2. Approaches of solving conflicts in projects

6.3. Risk identification, evaluation, and analysis (Victor Iliescu)

7: Closing the project

Drawing the management report

Instructional Methods

Pedagogical teaching-learning-assessment methods: explanation, presentation, project work, mind-mapping, tests along the way, Homework, audio-video examples, team-work.

• Evidence of interventions;
• Portfolio

Portfolio objects for the colloquium: seminar activities and topics, papers, scientific syntheses, course support.

• Written questionnaire
• Oral response
• Laboratory notebook (experimental works, papers)
• Practical demonstration
• Self-evaluation, presentation and / or support of the project
• Critical evaluation of a project

Final evaluation: colloquium

Required Course Materials

Microsoft Project Management software

Textbook provided by the author: dr. Tudor Stanciu- Methodology of Project Management. Development and Organization of International Projects. 

Assessment