Education & Training
Moving People Forward
The Education and Training Board (E&T Board) addresses the complex relationships between education, training and employment in professional project management. Although the E&T Board does not offer training courses, it assists in the development of resources for use by students and professionals.
A key challenge facing PM practitioners is to assure that all PM learning and training efforts and costs actually return the intended benefits.
We face this challenge, whether the purpose of the learning is individual career development, for increased project success, or for improved performance of the sponsoring organizations.
The goal of IPMA Education and Training is to support use of ICB®, the IPMA Competence Baseline (our framework for relevant learning), is to assist our Member Associations and their stakeholders, to improve project and programme learning, and improve organisation results.
Primary E & T Products and Services
Training Aid Programmes offer training courses on project management either at an introductory level or oriented towards project management certification. Audiences: Executives, Managers, Government Officials, and Project professionals receive training via non-profit organizations in countries with no national project management association. Benefits: Project professionals with new insights to the benefits of pm competence, and a support system to help create a new IPMA Member Association for the nations.
Recommended Literature: This programme offers opportunities for expanding project and programme management competencies. It helps identify, by nation, the preferred PM publications of many of our Member Associations. Audiences: Educators, Students, and Project professionals. Benefits: Improved understanding of the context of each competence area at the level of detail necessary to develop courses, speak about project management, and assist certification candidates.
The IPMA Advanced Courses offer opportunities for expanding project and programme management competencies. You can share your experiences, improve your methods, or polish your behavioural skills. Audiences: Senior Project Managers, Programme Managers, Project Consultants, and Project Management Educators. Benefits: Move beyond basic knowledge, in a collaborative environment of experienced peers and practitioners, working with leading experts in each advanced topic.
IPMA Registration offers IPMA Member Associations a way to engage relevant Educational and Training organizations. Providers register their IPMA-related training programmes and courses, improving visibility to organisations desiring competence improvement in project management. Audiences: Project Management Educators and Trainers, and those who would engage them. Benefits: Assurance that the learning aligns with IPMA's broader understanding of the foundations for initiative success.
The E&T Event, organized with the 26th IPMA World Congress in Greece, aims to promote competence development through knowledge and experience transfer on project management professional training. Audiences: Educators, Students, Human Resource executives and Project professionals. Benefits: Provide a richer, broader, and more relevant PM learning experience aligned with IPMA ideals with the purpose of improving the career prospects of project managers, and the success of their hiring organizations.
In addition to the above, IPMA Education & Training is involved with many other initiatives, including our Cooperation Programme. In this programme, IPMA works with relevant Project Management-oriented organizations, including Universities, helping them to address the learning opportunities documented in the IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB).