Forthcoming project management events and links

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(2010), "Forthcoming project management events and links", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 3 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb.2010.35303caa.002

Forthcoming project management events and links

Article Type: Forthcoming project management events and links From: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Volume 3, Issue 3

Useful general links

For readers who either supervise research students, or are researchers the Australian Digital Thesis Library (http://adt.caul.edu.au/) is a highly useful resource. The home page of the ADTL web site states the following which should explain its value.

“The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community” (accessed 30 January 2008). This library contains hundreds of doctoral theses and so is of immense value in providing examples of theses and for record through the theses of current research work of PhDs, DBAs and DPMs, etc. from across a wide range of disciplines, many highly relevant to the PM discipline.

Another useful organisation for those engaged in doctorates is The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). This organisation has created a web site that is intend to promote as the web site of a European job market for business academic positions: see URL: www.eiasm.org/r/about-eiasm. One section of their web site is devoted to the candidates. They will have to enter their names and profiles (including CVs, areas of expertise and papers). Another section is for the institutions. They will have to indicate the assistant professorship positions (one or more) that they plan to open (field, starting date, and possibly information about the contract, e.g. salary). Demands and applications can be in any area of the business academic community. EIASM holds a range of events including doctoral symposia and meetings.

Conferences to the end 2010

The inaugural Asia Pacific Research Conference on Project Management held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 25-26 February 2010 with a Doctoral Consortium being held on the 24 February. Details may be found on URL: www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/aprpm/dates.html

EURAM 2010 (Back to the Future in Rome, Italy) 19-22 May, has a project track called “Project Futures – in Research and Practice”. Readers interested in this conference that spans many areas of management with a special track in PM should keep abreast of forthcoming events. See URL: www.euram2010.org/r/default.asp?iId=EGGMKK

The 5th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (Matera, Italy – 24-25 June 2010) IFKAD 2010 – Track 13 (www.knowledgeasset.org/IFKAD/Tracks/tp013.asp), IFKAD 2010 aims to encourage discussions on intellectual capital research and management practices for addressing complexity, uncertainty and changes of today’s business landscape. Nowadays, private and public organizations have to face uncertainty, crisis, change, turbulence and high-competitive pressure. In this context, it is critical to understand the role of intellectual capital and particularly to understand the key intangible and knowledge assets to be developed and managed in order to deal with the fluidity of business. This also involves the understanding of the approaches, models and tools for assessing and managing intellectual capital to support renew and develop new business models aligned with the evolution of future competitive scenarios.

IFKAD 2010 represents one of the leading forums in the research and management of intellectual capital, intangible assets and knowledge-based development. It is an opportunity for debating and exploring managerial and research cutting-edge insights at the basis of companies, institutions, clusters, regions and nations and their respective value creation patterns. The forum is structured in plenary sessions with keynote speakers, round tables with academics, practitioners and policy makers and parallel paper sessions. The event seeks to stimulate a conversation between presenters and participants in order to create a vital learning context and sharing of experience.

After the IFKAD Forum selected authors will be invited to submit their papers for inclusion in this special issue for IJMPiB Guest Editors of the journal special issue:

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  Paolo Canonico, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy: pcanonic@unina.it

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  Ernesto De Nito, Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro: denito@unicz.it

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  Gianluigi Mangia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy: mangia@unina.it

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  Jonas Söderlund, BI School of Management, Norway and Linköping University, Sweden: jonas.soderlund@liu.se

The 24th International Project Management Association (IPMA) World Congress is being held in Istanbul, Turkey, 1-3 November 2010. The congress organizing team, along with IPMA, have announced their “Call for Papers” for the 2010 World Congress. The theme for the 24th IPMA World Congress on Project Management in Istanbul next year will be “Challenges and Opportunities.” The 24th IPMA World Congress 2010 shall incorporate research, development, practical nature as well as case-oriented streams that identify the changes that need to be made to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities brought about by new realities in the world economy. The URL link is: www.ipma2010.com/

The CIB world congress is being held at Salford, 10-13 May 2010 at “The Lowry”, Salford Quays, UK. This is a major conference for those in construction PM the link to their web site is: www.cib2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

The Happy Projects’10 Conference was held on the topic “Projects and sustainability” and took place in May 2010. See below for 2011 conference details.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) research conference is held every two years (even years) in 2004 it was held in London, in 2006 in Montreal and in July 2008 in Warsaw Poland. It is to be held in Washington, DC in 2010 so keep posted. Readers may be interested in PMI regional congresses and events they can access this through the PMI web site (www.pmi.org/Pages/Calendar.aspx) the PMI regional conferences are global so that for example in 2007 there was one in San Paulo, Brazil, Cancun, Mexico and Wellington, New Zealand. The calendar web link, however, provides details only month by month so it can be somewhat time consuming to find out what is on where, at what time.

The 4th Conference of Excellence in Teaching and Learning Project Management will be held at Lille ESC in August 2010. The timescale is as follows:

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  Complete initial papers to arrive by 8 January 2010.

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  Please send to Dr Roger Atkinson, at: rogeratkinson@bournemouth.ac.uk

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  Reviewer comments will be returned to the lead author by 2 April 2010.

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  Final papers are to arrive by 2 July 2010 selected papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Project Management by Elsevier. Contact Dr Roger Atkinson for more details.

Conferences for 2011

The Happy Projects’11 Conference: “Projects and corporate social responsibility” will take place in Vienna from 12-13 May 2011. This conference is Austria’s largest international conference on project management and offers a huge variety of presentations, panel discussions and different streams for practitioners as well as students and academics. One part of the Happy Projects’11 Conference is the international student paper award for master and PhD students. For more information about the conference and the award please contact: claudia.weninger@wu.ac.at or visit the homepage: www.happyprojects.at

The International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) holds its research conferences on odd years and the next one will be held in Montreal Quebec in 6-8 June 2011. This organisation would be of great interest to PM researchers and their web site is: www.irnop.org/. That site also links well to other research organisations and forthcoming conferences of interest to PM academics and practitioners. Their web site lists the links to these conferences with dates for abstracts, submissions, etc.

The “Making Projects Critical” 6th International Workshop on critical studies of project based work, project management and the projectification of society and life at large will be held in Bristol, UK, 21 and 22 January 2011. A key concern of this workshop is to employ critical perspectives to analyse and evaluate the practice of project management and decision making as evidenced in the approval, governance and control of project work and project workers. While the abstracts deadline would be missed by the time this journal is available, readers could contact Dr Svetlana Cicmil, at: Svetlana.Cicmil@uwe.ac.uk or check the BBS web site www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/research/mpc/index.shtml about future workshops.

Useful PM links

The IPMA is the world’s oldest project management organisation. It is an international network of national project management societies and their web link is: www.ipma.ch/Pages/default.aspx. The advantage of keeping abreast with this web site is that it links to a range of PM associations and (their URL link is: www.ipma.ch/membership/Pages/default.aspx) so link through them to find out more about their conferences and events.

The UK Association for Project Management (APA) is mounting several national events during 2009. Full details are at available at: www.apm.org.uk/awards.asp and www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp, respectively.

One other example of the associated group is the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) that has an annual conference and also jointly offers one with the PMI Australian chapters. The AIPM web link is: www.aipm.com.au/html/default.cfm

The IRNOP web site is very useful for conferences, books and PM journal matters their web site URL is: www.irnop.org/

The CIB is an organisation that is centred in Europe and based in The Netherlands but with global reach and supports and is composed of construction practitioners and academics. They have many conferences and meeting of their specialised working commissions, many of interest to PM readers of this journal the home page URL is: www.cibworld.nl/website/

Another useful link for PM students and academics to consider is two groups of collaborating organisations that link universities teaching PM and also students and practitioners:

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   The PMI have formed the Global Accreditation Centre (GAC) that has the aim of accrediting PM courses/programs of study (mainly at the Masters’ degree level as well as Doctoral level) the URL link to the GAC is: www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/Pages/GAC-Academic-Network.aspx

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   The other group is PMUni URL: www.pmuni.net/. PMUni is an international network of universities, education and research institutions as well as process and project-oriented companies with the overall objective to promote professional education and research in process and project management. They and have held a number of workshops, conferences and meetings where the participants meet to exchange experience in research and education (www.pmuni.net/).

Call for applications for the IPMA Research Awards

IPMA annually recognizes outstanding research contributions of individual researchers and research teams. The category Young Researcher Award especially encourages PhD students and Master students to apply. For more information, please contact: martina.huemann@ipma.ch or visit the homepage: www.ipma.ch/awards/resawards/Pages/default.aspx

The IPMA Research Awards to honour excellence in project management research

In 2009, the IPMA Research Awards were presented at the IPMA World Congress in Helsinki. IPMA has established these awards to encourage excellent project management research. Within the IPMA Research Awards, we distinguish several categories of prizes. The IPMA Young Researcher Award honours young researcher. The IPMA Research Award honours established project management researchers. It is awarded to an individual researcher or a research team. In addition to the award winners, the jury also honours further outstanding research contributions in these two categories with the prize IPMA outstanding research contributions.

In 2009, for the first time, the IPMA Research Achievement Award was presented to honour an exceptional project management researcher for his oevre. In Helsinki, this prize was presented to a Professor Peter W.G. Morris, who has dedicated his life to establishing the domain and the discipline of management of projects.

Call for IPMA Research Awards 2010

IPMA calls for applications for 2010 in the categories IPMA Young Researcher and IPMA Research Award. Applications may come from academia, other research institutions or industry. They may come from disciplines other than project management but must contribute to the development of project, program management, project-oriented companies or any element named in the International Competence Baseline. The candidates apply with a research project. The research project must have had at least duration of one year and must be completed, when the application is handed in. Completion of research project may date back to 1 January 2009.

Categories

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  IPMA Young Researcher Award. Cutting edge research of a young researcher (born 1975 or later, or the candidate can prove that he/she is less than ten years involved in research).

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  IPMA Research Award. Cutting edge research project of a researcher or a team. The application of interdisciplinary projects is encouraged.

In the evaluation, the jury considers the research results as well as the research process. The evaluation criteria are:

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  Research results achieved.

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  Originality and innovation.

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  Theoretical foundation.

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  Transparency and professionalism of research process.

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  Practical relevance.

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  Management as research project.

Schedule for IPMA Research Awards 2010

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  Application forms are available at: www.ipma.ch

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  Applications are accepted until 1 June 2010.

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  Applicants and IPMA national association of prize winners are notified: 15 October 2010.

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  IPMA Research Award Ceremony at the IPMA World Congress Istanbul: 1-2 November 2010.

Looking forward to receiving your applications for the IPMA Research Awards 2010! Please submit to: Martina.Huemann@ipma.ch