Objectives and competences
• To understand basic characteristics of projects and project oriented-work.
• To know how to select basic techniques and methods for project planning and use them on project applications.
• To understand the whole project planning and implementation process.
• To understand methodology for research project design.
• To understand how to use research project funding mechanisms and schemes.
• To understand the financial construction of project.
• To understand and to use different national and international programmes for projects funding as well as their responsible agencies.
• To know how to prepare the excellent preparation of a project with a high degree of competitiveness.
• To know local problems, national and EU strategies and constructing of important non-economic and economic actors network (companies, municipalities’, etc.).
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Types of research projects
• Preparation of the project for applying for the specific call:
• The overall development of the idea
• From the idea to the project
• Analysis of a good project idea and preparation of a draft
• Financial resources
• Concrete project application
• The basic elements of the project application and the legality of these for a wonderful presentation
• Project writing (adapting to call requirements)
• Development and coordination of the project partnership
• Financial aspect
• Project management
• Evaluation of the project
• Negotiations with funders and coordination with the team
• Control reports and reporting
• Sustainability of the project
• Practical work to obtain key knowledge and experience for quality preparation and realization of research and development projects.
Learning and teaching methods
• lectures,
• practical work,
• seminar-research work (public presentation).
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
• To compile a document with project idea for student’s research project.
• To compile an application for selected financial mechanism for student’s research project.
• To select a suitable financial mechanism for research project application.
• To define necessary project management techniques and methods for research project application within specific financial mechanism.
Transferable/Key skills and other attributes:
• Understanding of key knowledge and experience for quality preparation and realization of research and development projects.
• Capability to manage the company in the way to strengthen their research work and research projects.
• Capability to transform project idea into project application.
• Capability to write project documentation for a research project
• Capability to manage the whole project planning and implementation process.
• Capability of finding the suitable financing source for the project.
Readings
• Palčič, Iztok. 2014. Planiranje in vodenje projektov, Fakulteta za strojništvo (e-gradivo v pripravi)
• Turner, J.R. 2014. The handbook of project-based management, 4th edition, The McGraw-Hill Companies, London
• Kerzner, H. 2013. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling, 11th edition, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Ogden, T. E. & Goldberg I. A. Research Proposals: A guide to Success: 3rd Editions, 2002, Elsevier Science
