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Valencia (Spain) hosts the international final of the Project Management Championship
The Project Management Championship is a 3 stage competition consisting of a qualification round, the national finals and the international final. The international final will be hosted each year by a different country.
PM Championship is targeted at full-time students at higher education studying project-related courses. Its core objectives are to enhance student involvement in the field of project management, to raise the interest in professional project management at a national and international level, as well as to advance the dialogue, the knowledge sharing and know-how between research and the business world.
The International Final of the IPMA Project Management Championship Edition 2023 will be held in Valencia (Spain) on 2-3 June 2023.
Championship headquarters
The Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia is an institution that develops its functions as a public service for Higher Technical Education in the industrial branch of Engineering.
Around 4,100 students enrolled, more than 700 professors from 26 Departments teaching at the Center, managing 14 buildings and 46,000 m2 of constructed area.
Information of interest
The last champions
A team from the Polytechnic University of Valencia won the 2022 international phase held in Berlin (Germany). This means that this 2023, AEIPRO Joven must take charge of organizing the final phase of the iPMC in Valencia.
The winning team was formed, from left to right, by Juan Pablo Morales González, Luis Felipe Vanegas Girón, Paula Guijarro Muntaner and Vicenzo Pedro Cozza.
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⁍ Rules and how to Join
The Project Management Championship is a 3 stage competition consisting of a qualification round, the national finals and the international final. The Project Management Championship is owned by the IPMA Young Crew , which holds all rights and responsibilities.
During the qualification round the participants take an online test. The test consists of 100 questions that have to be answered in 100 minutes. The knowledge level required for the test is equal to the IPMA level D certification.
The test has to be completed at one attempt. The test can be accessed only from one computer. Participants are allowed to use all sources of information- internet, books etc. while completing the test.
The 6 best participating teams qualify for the national final. There each team must solve one real-life case study within 4 hours. At first it wont be clear what the underlying problem is and solving this challenge will require in depth analysis and skilful application of existing knowledge. Each team must then present its to the jury, which consists of PM professionals from the IPMA network.
Note: There can be specific rules applying to national final depending on the country.
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⁍ The winning team
The winning team of each national final will then participate the Project Management Championships final and compete against all other national winners. The final is a 2-day event and hosted each year in a different country.
Students that want to participate must form a team of 3-4 people and register on this web page. Only full-time Bachelor and Master students, under 35 years of age are allowed to take part in the competition.
Students can form mixed teams (members from different universities), but they have to choose which university they represent.
Cheating is forbidden as well as any another misbehaviour is forbidden. Sharing the username and password is absolutely forbidden. This kind of activity will lead to the teams disqualification and will be reported forward.In case that a member of a winning team needs to step down, the options are the following:
• if there were 4 members, then 3 members stay and participate as a team;
• if there were 3 members, local PMC manager gives them the following choice:
– to accept one team member from the team that took 2nd place (they can choose which one);
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⁍ How to join
In order to compete you must first make sure that your national young crew is holding the championship. All participating countries are listed at: http://www.become.pm/projectmanagementchampionships/countries-and-schedules/
Each country listed, has a registration period and a qualification period. These can be after another or happen in parallel. The date of the finals will is also announced there. If your country is not listed please get in touch with your local young crew and consider volunteering to organize the pmc at your country.
Sponsors
Universitat Politècnica de València
The Universitat Politècnica de València is a public, dynamic and innovative institution dedicated to research and teaching which, while maintaining strong ties with the community in which it carries out its activities, strives for a strong presence abroad.
It is a young university, which celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2018-2019 academic year. Therefore, it has been here for over half of a century providing uninterrupted teaching
Its community is currently made up of around 28,000 students, 2,500 teaching staff and researchers and 1,500 administration and service professionals, spread across its three campuses in Alcoi, Gandia and València. The UPV comprises 13 university centres, of which 9 are higher technical schools, 2 are faculties and another 2 are higher polytechnic schools. In addition, it has a Doctoral School and 3 affiliated centres (Florida University, Berklee College of Music and EDEM Business School).
TE CONNECTIVITY
Solutions that power electric vehicles, aircraft, digital factories, and smart homes. Innovation that enables life-saving medical care, sustainable communities, efficient utility networks, and the global communications infrastructure. For more than 75 years, we have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing products that make a connected world possible. Our focus on reliability and durability, our commitment to progress, and the unmatched range of our product portfolio enables companies large and small to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.
VAN HAREN PUBLISHING
Founded in 2001, Van Haren Publishing has since become the world’s leading publisher in best practice, frameworks, methods, and standards within IT Management, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Management.
VanHaren Publishing is based in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. We are the proud official publisher for some of the world’s leading organizations in these areas and their frameworks and standards, including The Open Group, IPMA, ASL BiSL Foundation, IAOP®, IVI, IFDC, and IACCM.
STS
STS Sauter Training & Simulation SA is a Swiss company dedicated to providing training in project management and developing innovative project management training tools. Since 1996, STS successfully deploys highly tailored training programs in numerous national and international companies of all industries and universities. Since the development of the project simulation SimulTrain®, STS has become one of the leading institutions in applied project management training.
Organizers
AEIPRO is a non-profit association whose purpose is to develop the field of Project Management and Engineering, help its members and assume their representation before the Administration, Corporations and entities of any kind, excluding that corresponding to the sphere of Trade Unions and/or Professional Associations. AEIPRO was born in 1992 and since 1996 it is the Spanish Association representing IPMA (International Project Management Association).
AEIPRO Joven brings together the youngest members of AEIPRO. Organize events such as the preparation of the national final of the IPMC or the GeCCo. AEIPRO Joven also organizes workshops, conferences and webinars focused on various topics of interest to our community.
IPMA is a federation of about 70 Member Associations (MAs). Our MAs develop project management competences in their geographic areas of influence, interacting with thousands of practitioners and developing relationships with corporations, government agencies, universities and colleges, as well as training organizations and consulting companies.
https://www.ipma.world/ipma-young-crew/
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