PMFORUM Breaking News

Reported by Renate Prantner in Vienna

International project management experts from universities (of applied science) and pm experts from industry, with a special interest in pm education and research are kindly invited to the next PMUni workshop, taking place on the 28^th May 2008 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.

This workshop will be just one of the highlights of the happy projects’08: “PROJECTS & SALES” – Austria’s major project management conference.

PMUni is an international network of 14 universities and companies, striving for excellence in project management education
and research.

In this next workshop, the results of the first common research project pm education mature, will be presented and discussed. A jointly developed maturity model enables to analyse and benchmark project management education programs with each other, which is the first step of learning from each other within the network.

Besides networking with pm top experts, the most recent developments in project-management related education and research will be discussed.

The participation is free of charge! We hope to welcome you at the PMUni workshop and at the happy projects’08!

For information & Registration, contact Renate Prantner at PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Franz Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria or via e-mail at renate.prantner@wu-wien.ac.at.

Renate Prantner International Correspondent Austria based in Vienna Renate Prantner is an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Vienna, Austria. She is also a research fellow for project management at the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna where she has worked since 2004. At the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP she has been part of the programme office in the research programme project orientation [international], of the project team in project orientation [austria II] and project orientation [sk-at]. She is coordinating the international project “PM CAT” to develop a web-based tool for competence assessment and coordinates the international network PMUni, which aims at promoting professional education and research in project and process management. She has a Masters degree in International Business Administration from the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, where she is currently writing her doctoral thesis on the subject of “Change Management – Project and Process Orientation”. Renate can be contacted at Renate.Prantner@wu-wien.ac.at. Additional information about Renate Prantner can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/09/renate-prantner-appointed-international.html