The Lille School of Management Research Center in Lille, France has announced the main faculty for their "9^th International Workshop on Project & Programme Management" and "4^th Internal Research Seminar in Project & Programme Management" in August 2009. The workshop and seminar will be held in conjunction with a "Special EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Perspectives on Projects" the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) has announced that. These events will be held during August 17-21, 2009 at the ESC Lille campus in Lille, France, the major metropolis in the North of France, near the Belgium border and between Paris and London.

Faculty for the 9^th International Workshop in Project & Programme Management and the Special EDEN Doctoral Seminar - Perspectives on Projects: Project Attributes - will include:

• Prof. Christophe N. Bredillet - Professor of Strategic Programme and Project Management and Dean of Postgraduate Programmes and Research at the ESC Lille School of Management, Lille, France.
  



• Prof. Rodney Turner (pictured) - Professor of Project Management at the ESC Lille School of Management, and the Kemmy Business School of the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia), and Visiting Professor at the Henley Management College (UK).


• Dr. Phillipe Ruiz - Associate Professor of Statistics and Research Methods as well as Co-Director of the PhD Programme at the ESC Lille School of Management in Lille, France.
  


• Prof. Ralf Muller - Associate Professor at Umea University in Sweden and Adjunct Professor at the ESC Lille School of Management in France, as well as visiting faculty member at Tillburg University, The Netherlands.
  


• Dr. Martina Huemann - Faculty member at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria, and Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the ESC Lille School of Management, in Lille, France.
  


• Dr. Frank T. Anbari - Faculty Member and past Director of the Project Management Program at The George Washington University in Washingon, DC, USA and Visiting Professor at the Lille School of Management, Lille, France.



• Prof. Lynn Crawford (pictured) - Professor of Project Management at the ESC Lille School of Management in France and at Bond University in Brisbane, Australia.

A major aspect of the seminar and workshop this year will be the introduction to and discussion of a system of classification of Projects developed by Professors Lynn Crawford, Brian Hobbs and Rodney Turner. Professors Crawford and Turner will explore different paradigms appropriate for different types of projects, with an aim to develop an overarching theory of project management for framing research, studies and applications in this area.

Attendance at the 9^th International Workshop in Project & Programme Management is by invitation only. The August 2009 Doctoral Seminar being held at ESC Lille School of Management has a participation fee of 1500 €, which includes participation in the seminar, all documents, lodging and a number of dinners. Interested doctoral students and researchers can apply at eden-PM@esc-lille.fr no later than June 17, 2009. More information can be found at http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/eden_announcement.asp?event_id=643.

Founded in 1892, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille - ESC Lille - is one of the oldest business schools in France, with campuses in Lille and Paris. It was the first institution outside North America to receive GACPM accreditation by the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) and the first outside the UK to receive the Association for Project Management (APM) academic accreditation. The project management program at ESC Lille was inaugurated in 1979. ESC Lille offers postgraduate programs in project management: two masters in project & program management (one taught in English, the other in French); a MBA in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English); and a PhD in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English). ESC Lille research activities in project & program management are grouped together into the Lille School of Management Research Center. Additional information can be found at www.esc-lille.eu.