Citation
(2011), "Useful PM links", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 4 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb.2011.35304caa.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Useful PM links
Article Type: Forthcoming project management events and links From: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Volume 4, Issue 3
The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest PM organisation. It is an international network of national PM 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 (www.ipma.ch/membership/Pages/default.aspx) so link through them to find out more about their conferences and events. The global conference for 2011 will be held in Brisbane Australia in October 9-12th see www.ipma2011.com.au/ for details.
The UK Association for Project Management is mounting several national events during 2011. Full details are available at: www.apm.org.uk/awards.asp and www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp, respectively.
Another 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 construction-based research community organisation that is centred in Europe and based in The Netherlands; with global reach and support, it 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/web site/
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 PM. They have held a number of workshops, conferences and meetings where the participants meet to exchange experience in research and education.