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The International Young Project Manager Award recognizes rising talent with an international perspective. It is awarded to those individuals who, despite being in the early stages of their project management careers, are already demonstrating that they can make a difference to the project management profession and the companies and clients for whom they work.

The Young Project Manager Award is open to project managers aged up to 35 at the time of entry, who are working on any project where their involvement has been greater than 6 months. The criteria for evaluation are based upon the International Competence Baseline (ICB) 3. Sponsor of the Award is the IPMA International Project Management Association.

Application is possible until 28th of May 2008. An international jury will select 3 applicants as finalists on 1st September 2008. The finalists will receive an IPMA-Sponsorship (1.500 €) to participate at the IPMA Young Crew Workshop 2008 in Rome, Italy in November. The Award Winner of these three finalists will be announced at the Workshop's gala dinner, 7th November 2008.

You can download the application forms as a zip file from the IPMA's homepage www.ipma.ch (click on "Awards"). For more information contact Margret Jona Thorarinsdottir, coordinator of the Young Project Manager Award 2008, ycaward@ipma.ch.

Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is a global organization of over 45 national representative societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. National societies serve the needs of individual members in local languages, while IPMA provides an umbrella organization to represent them at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level Project Management Certification Programme continues to grow, with over 50.000 professionals having now achieved IPMA Certification. The IPMA annually presents project management awards to recognize excellence in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular hosting of International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch.