Project Management

Target Audience:

VIB PhD student

VIB postdoc

VIB staff scientist

VIB group leader or expert

Location:

Leuven - Park Inn by Radisson

Duration:

12 & 13 November 2024

Learning outcomes

This program offers a pragmatic approach on project management, and will help you to:

Gain more control over your project(s)
Engage and activate stakeholders (including sponsors and international partners)
Create a more realistic plan, using insights from both traditional and agile planning techniques
Get more out of status meetings
Keep the momentum of your project at a good pace

Approach

This program takes a flipped classroom approach:

Online learning - 6 weeks

During six weeks before our encounter, you will receive content and assignments on an online collaborative learning platform. These assignments will challenge you thinking about project management, and help you understand the theory behind managing a research project and engaging stakeholders.

You should need no more than 1/2 hour a week for these online assignments

Interactive workshops - 2 days

When we meet, the focus will be on application of the concepts on several real life research projects and on purposefully chosen cases. You will deepen your understanding of project leadership, including how to make a realistic plan for a research project (which typically contains a lot of unknowns), how to engage stakeholders, and how to keep track of progress and keep your sponsor satisfied.

Follow-up - 3 months

The following three months you will receive extra tips and inspiration via e-mail. On top of that, the online collaborative platform will remain active, so that you can continue to engage in conversation with your fellow trainees and with your trainer.

We are convinced that this program will provide you with an interesting learning journey, and that you will feel better equipped to lead your projects to the outcomes that you dream of.

Event intended for

VIB postdocs and last year PhD students, staff scientists, group leaders and experts.

Extra information

This training is free for VIB participants.
The course is not open for non-VIB participants.
Note that upon no show without valid justification a fee of € 100 will be charged and you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year. Click here for more information

Testimonials

It all went very organic, the trainer picked in on the real life project examples that we gave. It really felt like she knew 200% what she was talking about and let this course pick in on the most urgent needs of the participants.

Participant edition spring 2024

Training was well structured and organized. Our trainer was well prepared, open for discussion and going away from the general flow, if people were bringing extra topics. Was also open to help each person individually even outside the scope/hours of the training. Very positive person and atmosphere.

Participant edition autumn 2023

The course is very flexible and dependent on the group. This makes it very applicable to people managing projects outside of research functions as well.