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Due to the caliber of international student papers selected by the judging panel and presented at the annual HAPPY PROJECTS conference held in Vienna this past May, PMForum was granted permission to republish the work of the 1st place winner
Barry Rodgers (pictured left) entitled "Selling a PMO to management as a centralised repository of project expertise".Barry attends the ESC Lille Graduate School of Management, France in the July issue of it’s online ejournal PM World Today.See his paper at http://www.pmworldtoday.net/
student_papers/2008/jul.htm.

According to judging panel member Martina Huemann (pictured below with PMForum V.P. Technology Nelson Soucek), submitted student papers are written by Master, MBA and PhD students representing 16 universities from Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and the Ukraine.

The international student paper award, provided student researchers an opportunity to present their results at this year’s international Happy Projects conference "Happy Projects '08 - PROJECTS & SALES" held May 29th and 30th in Vienna.

This year’s conference featured speakers from well-known national and international organizations and universities and included presentations, case studies, workshops, panel discussions and round tables revolving around this year’s topic "PROJECTS & SALES".

Winners of the international student paper award´08

• The 1st prize, Barry Rodgers, ESC Lille Graduate School of Management, France for his paper "Selling a PMO to management as a centralised repository of project expertise"


• 2nd prize was honoured to Gabriella Dancsecz, PhD student at University of Pannonia, Hungary for her paper "Assessing project excellence of international sport event projects".


• 3rd prize went to Catriona Burke, master student at University of Limerick in Ireland for her paper "Programme Management as a framework for implementing strategy: Brief flirtation or enduring marriage?"

The Happy Projects´08 conference - organised by ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING in cooperation with the PROJECTMANAGEMENT GROUP, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration - is one of Austria’s major project management conferences each year.

More about Happy Projects ’08 can be found at:
http://www.happyprojects.at/index.php?id=593&L=2

The monthly online PM World Today eJournal, published by PMForum, Inc, contains viewpoints articles, featured papers, interviews, student papers, case studies, advisory articles, book reviews and regional reports by leading PM authorities, experts and correspondents from around the world of project management. Each issue also contains calls for papers, announcements, news stories and other information related to projects and project management. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

Editor's Note: In an effort to promote collaboration, and the contribution of the PM profession to our global community PMFourm seeks to expand the visibility of promising student works and research efforts by exposing it to the broadest possible audience through various means, including publication in the PM World Today eJournal and in it’s library archives on www.pmforum.org.If you have papers, research or other items for consideration please submit them to editor@pmforum.org.