Budget and Capacity Planning

  • Practice of EU-wide calls for proposals from different institutions
  • Actors in the EU advisory landscape (national contact points)
  • Budget planning and project calculation
  • Tools for capacity and milestone planning (network planning technique, Scrum, ...), project structure plan, trend analysis
  • Procedures and guidelines for awarding research contracts
  • Identification of relevant calls for proposals and their assessment
  • Preparation of project proposals and plans for calls for policy advice

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Laloux, Frederic (2016): Reinventing Organizations. Ein illustrierter Leitfaden sinnstiftender Formen der Zusammenarbeit, München: Vahlen.
Meyer, Helga/Reher, Heinz-Josef (2016): Projektmanagement: Von der Definition über die Projektplanung zum erfolgreichen Abschluss, Wiesbaden: Springer.
Timinger, Holger (2017): Projektmanagement: Modernes Projektmanagement. Mit traditionellem, agilem und hybridem Vorgehen zum Erfolg: Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
Additional current articles will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the semester.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, practical parts are designed as a simulation of a project tender with distributed roles - groups can carry out project (parts) for project clients and act as project contractors, with assigned roles (e.g. internal specialists for budgeting/project management/writing project proposals/communication of results/evaluation)

Assessment methods and criteria

M2.3a (ILV): 70% final exam (closed book) and 30% performance (homework, group work, application example in project management 25%, participation & performance 5%)

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Infos

Degree programme

Europäische Wirtschaftspolitik

Cycle

International Programme

ECTS Credits

5.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2024

Semester

2 SS

Incoming

Yes

Learning outcome

siehe Modulbeschreibung

Course code

0899-23-01-VZ-DE-09